I was wondering what this could be good for, but then I noticed that sharing my XMPP account password with some strange website would be a bad idea. Instead giving them session based access to my account could be acceptable.
I am curious what the author is planning to build on top of that.
Actually, I don't quite like Matrix and mostly just for one reason. While decentralized communication isn't easy nowadays, they drive the protocol split that parts the developer community. Now devs have to decide if they want to build a XMPP or a Matrix product. Before there was just one IM protocol that was a reasonable solution for that kind of problem.
Yes, XMPP didn't have all the extension required to build cool mobile/web apps back in 2012. But instead of pushing XMPP they decided to invent something completely new with just the same purpose.
At first I found it a little awkward, but after trying it, I think it works very well (e.g. much better than email due to instant nature of XMPP). I just don't know how vulnerable this extension is to spam.
I really like this! Too bad XMPP didn't become more popular, and unfortunately it feels like it is slowly dying rather than getting more widespread. Like any other open protocol.
For some reason it didn't work the first time I tried, the website just waited forever even though I confirmed the token. The second try worked fine, using Pidgin, with manual confirmation.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 42.4 ms ] threadAlso Pigeon ?
Two quite big players in the open source world.
I am curious what the author is planning to build on top of that.
Everybody should be using Matrix.
Yes, XMPP didn't have all the extension required to build cool mobile/web apps back in 2012. But instead of pushing XMPP they decided to invent something completely new with just the same purpose.
For some reason it didn't work the first time I tried, the website just waited forever even though I confirmed the token. The second try worked fine, using Pidgin, with manual confirmation.