XMPP Federation Compatibility

Hi

Are there any plans for xmpp compatibility, either supporting the xmpp protocol internally, or providing some bridging functionality? I love the look of rocket.chat, but I need android compatibility, and would like to stick with the conversations xmpp client (for now).

Thanks for all the great work. Rocket.chat looks fantastic.

Task: FEDCORE-47

This might be a good feature. XMPP is kind of a default protocol for chat messaging and this way you can use an XMPP server like Openfire or similar to handle these message loads.

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XMPP is planned but yet to be developed. We need more background on that, so if anyone is kind-of-expert on XMPP, we could use some help.

Just for the record, some people criticize XMPP and say matrix.org is a better alternative. I am not in the position to evaluate it, but maybe you guys have more expertise to do that.

https://github.com/digicoop/kaiwa is a javascript based webclient for group chat based on XMPP.
It uses a XMPP server (https://github.com/digicoop/kaiwa-server) as it's backend, which appears to be just Prosody (https://prosody.im/) with a bunch of useful extensions ("websocket" "carbons" "smacks" "idlecompat" "mam" "offline" https://modules.prosody.im/) added to it.

@marceloschmidt

I think "expert" is something of a strong word, but I know a thing or two about XMPP. How might I best contribute, @marceloschmidt?

Doesn’t help those of us where someone at the employer’s had the bright idea of switching to RocketChat.

I plead guilty, at least for turning down Matrix (which would most probably have won the election if I hadn't vetoed it quite fiercely). I have learnt by now ☺.

Funny how this issue got the matching issue number by the way :D.

Unfollowing this thread now.

@benlangfeld

Maybe you could tell us a bit more @benlangfeld ?

This topic has been floating around (both in this ticket and other places) for about 6 years and has never had any engagement from the project maintainers. There is 0 evidence that it is at all interesting to them, and no-one has seriously moved to make it a reality. Indeed, there are technical impediments to it functioning acceptably. To believe that any of that is suddenly going to change is naiive.

This is pretty clear. Thank you for taking the time to explain it well. :)

What comes out is a proprietary product in the clothing of an "open source" application, which solves a few minor UI issues for team chat (and not even that, really), but is worse at its core functionality than anything else ever was.

Perhaps anything else is a bit far-fetched, but otherwise you are right.

/jira FEDCORE

@sampaiodiego

@sampaiodiego: Thanks for your PR!

feat(federation): Add XMPP bridge support #40758

@chrisvella has opened this ticket on 2015-08-05 (11 years old).

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