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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by edhelas on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:43AM (#11303404)
XMPP has changed yes. And we now have some nice clients that are compatible together and stable servers with a bunch of nice features (multi-devices sync, history management, ACK, rich messages, messages edition, encryption, battery management, push notifications…).

I'm personally working on Movim, a nice-looking "Social-IM" client fully based on XMPP (https://movim.eu/). The main goal of the project is to show that we have now all the tools to build a decentralized, standard and universal IM (and also social !) network without reinventing the wheel again and again.

You can have a look at our latest release-note as well https://pod.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/f5f883e3122... (this blog post has been published/edited using Movim and XMPP ;)).

And Movim is also compatible with Spectrum to offer interconnection with other networks ;)

Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by detaro on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:03AM (#11303632)
> And we now have some nice clients that are compatible together and stable servers with a bunch of nice features (multi-devices sync, history management, ACK, rich messages, messages edition, encryption, battery management, push notifications…).

Can you recommend a few? I haven't looked into XMPP in detail for a while, because the clients I've been using are "good enough and I didn't bother with mobile), but it seems like I'm missing out on good things ;)

Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by edhelas on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:48AM (#11303987)
Well I can recommend Conversations for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conve... which have some really nice features and is fitting well with Movim.

For the desktop there is no real "modern" client yet, unfortunately. But I've ported Movim using Electron :) There is already a Ubuntu/Debian version and the package is here https://github.com/edhelas/movim_electron.

Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by andrey_utkin on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:53AM (#11304317)
For desktop, I've heard of Adium for Mac. For Linux, the one with most decent features support is Gajim, but it is far from being perfect.