I’d say that it feels like just yesterday, but it totally feels like decades ago :)<p>I’m very lucky to still be close with so may of the truly amazing individuals that helped build Jabber, and over the years deeply honored by all those that spoke to me about how it inspired them.<p>While at the surface it may seem like all of our efforts had little impact on the big “messaging silos”, I am most proud of how much Jabber/XMPP has made it easy for anyone to build/host/extend a messaging and presence service. Twenty years ago the concepts and architectures were opaque, now they’re commonplace.<p>Happy Birthday!
I really like that xmpp is experiencing a sort of revival at the moment.<p>Not maybe in terms of user-base, but Conversations for android is really good, on iOS ChatSecure has some issues, but is usable. OTR encryption is being replaced by OMEMO, and that actually works. I can use and try out clients to my hearts content, with messages being synchronized between them.<p>That I can run my own server on prosody or ejabberd is really great as well.<p>And since we're back to "Hey can we you use Signal/Threema/Whatsapp/Viber ?" anyhow, it's actually relatively easy to slide in the next option:<p>"Hmmm, why don't we use ChatSecure ?"<p>Thanks everyone for making it happen.
This is great news. I'm finishing a messaging app for a non-profit and I decided to use xmpp (openfire) for the backend and it was really a time saver (the full stack is React Native (typescript), ruby (jruby + sinatra for api), openfire for messaging). I really like how easy is to extend and customize xmpp to suit your needs. Here's to another 20 years!
Does anyone know what happened to Jeremie Miller's telehash project? The protocol looks promising, but not much happened lately.<p><a href="http://telehash.org" rel="nofollow">http://telehash.org</a><p><a href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-P2P-Digital-Self-with-TeleHash" rel="nofollow">https://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-P2P-Digital-Self-with-...</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uslYWTOtGpw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uslYWTOtGpw</a>
We need to move away from Hipchat at work and really wanted to use xmpp, but was super let down by the iOS clients, it can't be used in production.<p>Android - thanks to Cobversations and Xabber, is really ok, PC is ok (Gajim), but we couldn't migrate due to the 3 iOS users in the team. Duplicate msg and all sorts of weird behaviour and errors made it a no go.<p>We ended up with the shitty MS Teams in the end; comes free with our office365, has working notifications across platforms and can do messaging and file transfers without issues.<p>I dream of a future where xmpp is an option.<p>People who have to gain from that: please fix the iOS side of things.
As luck would have it, the XMPP newsletter was also sent out today: <a href="https://xmpp.org/2019/01/the-xmpp-newsletter-4-january-2019/" rel="nofollow">https://xmpp.org/2019/01/the-xmpp-newsletter-4-january-2019/</a>
WikiSuite is full on XMPP. This page explains why XMPP and Openfire, Converse and Pàdé and not all the other options: <a href="http://wikisuite.org/Why-Openfire" rel="nofollow">http://wikisuite.org/Why-Openfire</a>