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by Andrew_nenakhov 1680 days ago
I think they are in some kind of lethargy, waking up each year and updating the compliance suite xeps.
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TBH, (federated) chat/messaging is a solved problem since 1988 (IRC) or 1999 (XMPP), so I don't know what you expect
- group chats are shit

- message formatting is a mess

- device management is absent

- iOS apps can't really work with stock xeps

And the list is long, these are just the top problems. Luckily, this will likely change soon.

>Luckily, this will likely change soon.

Please elaborate.

Group chats, nicely working and with fallback for legacy clients. They are usable (without all features, of course) in Gajim/etc without doing anything:

Web client: https://xmpp.redsolution.com/upload/4bddf4f264f5c6577f16551f...

iOS client: https://xmpp.redsolution.com/upload/4bddf4f264f5c6577f16551f...

Message formatting (from web client, but is supported by all, actually): https://xmpp.redsolution.com/upload/4bddf4f264f5c6577f16551f...

Device management. Newly connected device is given a token, with a mechanism to prevent token duplication, and tokens can be revoked, resulting in device disconnection:

https://xmpp.redsolution.com/upload/4bddf4f264f5c6577f16551f...

https://xmpp.redsolution.com/upload/4bddf4f264f5c6577f16551f...

This all is a work in progress, and we're aiming for an iOS version release in december or early next year.