I hope that means somebody is thinking about it. I'm heartened to see that you have included the feature on your checklist. The same is true for email, yet my email client allows me to use multiple accounts. Yes, I know that a single account on one server can communicate across all federated servers. My IRC client, for instance, lets me be logged into multiple servers with different accounts at the same time. I know it is pretty ticky to point out that "Multi Account" is not supported, but it happened to be a feature I was particularly looking for in my search. I'm excited for it to show up for desktop use. I saw your demo of Element X a while back and it looked awesome. As an example, coincidentally, another HN post today was touching on one of those points - the need for a very advanced XML parser, as a typical one apparently wouldn't be enough: Devs are naturally driven to choose tech that makes their work nicer, if they enjoy it, so that means more stuff gets done for the newer platform, in this case. On top of that, the technology choices are par of the course for the time it was designed, and nowadays there are arguably better things. People expect more features in modern chat experiences than what XMPP was designed for, and that's what XEPs have tried to fix as a bandaid, with mixed results. Too many optional extensions hinders interop. > Also, sending files over XMPP has pretty much always sucked - there are a bunch of incompatible ways to do it and it's always been hit and miss depending on which client your chat partner was using, network topography, etc.Īlso, overload of XEPs doesn't help the ecosystem. Most XMPP servers let you log in multiple times but messages don't sync between clients and sometimes get delivered to the client the user isnt currently in front of. It also wasn't designed for today's 1 person multiple devices reality. XMPP is talkative and bandwidth intensive - bad for limited data/battery applications. It doesn't work well with mobile, high packet loss & high latency connections. > XMPP is great for what it was designed for. irssi (IRC client) is kind of my gold standard for stability/performance/features with weechat being mostly okay too.īecause summaries like this still stand up as of today: Matrix clients aren't great either, but overall Nheko gives me less trouble and pain than Gajim, using both daily. Part of the theme apparently, but GNOME also doesn't want you customizing/changing your theme. GTK stuff also often has this horrible thing where it fades the window when unfocused, which gets really awful and unresponsive when things get laggy, also ruins screenshots. Something with Gajim's features but using Qt would be pretty great potentially. When I changed from Dino to Gajim I was shocked at all the stuff I could suddenly do, was weird to think both were XMPP clients. Dino also has the usual GNOME-y issues of being over-simplified and lacking in customization and features. Gajim also gets very slow the longer it's open, can't recall if Dino was the same. Dino and Gajim both crash frequently on Wayland (Sway in particular) due to GTK issues that I'm not expecting to be fixed any time soon.
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