JC Brand @jcbrand@mastodon.xyz

@strypey @Muto @debacle

> #Jabber might get more uptake if every team focused on a serving a particular use case well

"Uptake", while desired, is less important to me than being able to earn a living off my work on Converse. Being able to do that makes this project sustainable and viable long-term.

Slack is a 16 Billion dollar company, the only way I can "compete" is to do what they cannot do, which is to make the project as open, customizable and configurable as possible.

RT @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com

In order to get elected, @BarackObama@twitter.com will start a war with Iran.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408

@Muto @strypey @debacle

It's not meant just as a standalone chat app... it's built to be as versatile, customizable and configurable as possible.

In a way, it's a lot like XMPP. Everybody laments the proliferation of XEPs and the lack of a unified experience.

I agree when seen from a certain perspective, this is a big drawback.

But the advantage of this approach is that you can use XMPP as a framework within which you can build unlimited functionality.

@Muto @strypey @debacle

#conversejs has some unique characteristics which no other chat app which I'm aware of has.

It has view modes, so you can have separate chat boxes overlayed over an existing website, a fullscreen app or an embedded "widget".

It's pluggable and you can remove core plugins to shape it into the form you need. E.g. you can remove groupchats entirely, or the roster view or OMEMO etc.

Almost anything is changeable or overridable and it has lots of configuration settings.

@strypey @dazinism @debacle @imacrea

There are known OMEMO bugs and the OMEMO situation in Converse is not to my satisfaction with regards to reliability and user-friendliness.

I'm not aware of any security issues, but there are usability and reliability issues.

@strypey @dazinism @debacle @imacrea

Converse's first commit was in 2012. For a JS project I think you can call that long-term.

RT @sitnikcode@twitter.com

The best pull request in 2017

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sitnikcode/status/945565187792363520

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." MARK TWAIN

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1140242627364700160

You can add Nintendo to the list of companies that uses #XMPP to push notifications to devices.

https://blog.process-one.net/ejabberd-nintendo-switch-npns/

RT @miziodel@twitter.com

interesting concept: #DataColonialism - raw information mined in numerous countries, processed mainly in the imperial hub, and then used to exercise control throughout the world

https://foreignpolicy.com/gt-essay/who-will-win-the-race-for-ai-united-states-china-data/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/miziodel/status/1136316590729891840

@renodubois Thank you!

@Photorat @nolan @renodubois

I read the transcript of the talk and at various times he refers to NPM burning community goodwill the last few months, but he doesn't say what exactly they did.

Could someone fill me in? I'm curious what specifically happened the last months that people are now so pissed with NPM.