crossposted from here: https://lemmy.eus/post/10482

I believe that XMPP is one of the best protocols for chat communications there is, and I stand up for it. However, the clients that there are, are not comfortable for most people out there used to apps like Telegram, Whatsapp or whatever.

One can defend current XMPP clients saying that quoting with "> " is the traditional way, or that swiping to quote a message is not worth developing; I have plenty more examples like this.
Well, if you think so, OK, use those clients for yourself, but become aware that many people won’t use XMPP for just this reason.

After saying all this, I want to tell that I am willing to develop a new, modern looking and comfortable client for XMPP. I think of a client for Android in first instance, but I would have no problem on going further.

However, I don’t know programming, so I’m searching programmers who would like to get involved in this.
Although I’m not programmer, I have experience developing software projects, from internationalization to documentation, including ideas about features, testing and all other work there can be.

Will you help me spreading the word? :)

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    Many XMPP clients do support editing send messages, but I agree, simply adding some more convenience features will not bring back users to XMPP.

      • marmulak@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        All the ones I use personally support this: Conversations, Dino, and profanity. I’d be surprised if Gajim didn’t, too.

        The caveat seems to be that you can only edit the last message you sent.

        • poVoq@lemmy.ml
          2·
          3 years ago

          In Gajim you need to press ctrl+up to edit the last message.

          Its true that the XEP says only the last message, but ConverseJS for example also allows older messages to be edited.