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by 693471 2464 days ago
Because the UI/UX is terrible, and XMPP is not mobile friendly at all
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geggam 2464 days ago
Being ugly and functional is fine with me. Pretty and exploitable seems a bit silly as a reason for use. Pidgin does so much more than xmpp
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BlueTemplar 2464 days ago
Hmm, what is not mobile-friendly with, say, Conversations ?
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693471 2461 days ago
It's not an app that can be awakened by a push notification.
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BlueTemplar 2452 days ago
What ? https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/issues/1759
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Andrew_nenakhov 2463 days ago
That is a big fat lie right here.
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693471 2461 days ago
No it's not, setting up proper push notifications (Google/Apple) with XMPP is a nightmare and the XEP is not well supported anyway
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Andrew_nenakhov 2454 days ago
This is not true. XEP-0357 is very well supported by any modern XMPP server, and setting it up is easy. There are many issues with XMPP but push notifications is not one of them.

Source: we are releasing an XMPP client for iOS soon.

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