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 We are finally going to upgrade our #ejabberd running on conversations.im, tomorrow, Saturday May 25th. Unfortunately we won’t be able to do this without some down times throughout the day. You can visit https://status.conversations.im/ for a simple up/down check or follow this thread for the occasional status update / progress report. #Conversations_im has just surpassed 250,000 installs on Google Play. 🥳 The official, publicly visible, install badges are handed out for 100k and 500k. Growth has been very linear over the last ten years so stay tuned for the next big milestone in 2034! 😜 Seems like #Cheogram went the route of just pretending they upload the contact list to satisfy Google Play requirements.¹ I get why they are doing this. I've contemplated doing this myself but I’m absolutely not convinced that pretending your app is worse than it is is the right strategy here. Especially because the overwhelming majority of our users are not following us on social media and thus don’t have the context for why we would do this. I hastily threw together a version of #Conversations_im that has no address book integration and doesn’t ask for Contacts permission. No indication from Google that they were in the wrong and hallucinated the whole "uploads contact list" thing. Instead I had to walk the path of least resistance and remove the useful and entirely harmless feature of address book integration. @daniel I have some contacts at Google, I will try to reach them and see if they can help. Being able to do proper message replies (including jumping to the original message) was one of the primary reasons for starting the work on Conversations 3.0 I mentioned before that Conversations 3 will use Dynamic Colors (Material You). Here are two screenshots of how this will look in the chat screen. Just in case you are spending the next couple of days with people who are not on #XMPP yet and have some time on your hands. 😊 Conversations is currently available for free on the Google PlayStore. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations  Any sufficiently complex JSON protocol will eventually implement features people dislike about XML. #JMAP has namespaces and XPath. I’m told JSON schemas are a thing too. @daniel JSON schemas are exactly as much fun as you expect them to be. #askMeHowIKnow
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 @daniel @mattj @prosodyim It's great to hear you're so committed to improving not just your own app, but the XMPP standard as a whole. @daniel @mattj @prosodyim do you plan to integrate Atinspam features into Conversations in the near future?  @daniel @mattj @prosodyim that's great! Thanks for continuing to support the best mobile xmpp client out there on any platform! If you were wondering how well #XMPP works on mobile devices: The XMPP-based MoyaApp has 6.5M users in South Afrika 🇿🇦. https://www.businessinsider.co.za/the-moyaapp-has-6m-active-users-and-challenging-whatsapp-2022-8
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> They also found that, at the time, there was a widespread view that “apps steal your money so don’t put apps on your phone.” People did not realise the apps were being updated to make them more efficient, but they just saw it as their data being stolen. They're not half wrong, though. 🤡  |
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@daniel Could we get an eta, or at least a progress report? I'm currently cut off from everyone. To only have notice on mastodon a day before is pretty shit tbh. I'm already having a hell of a time keeping people on xmpp, this is not helping.
@daniel in the future please send a message a few days before to all users about planned downtime 😉
Thx.