XMPP Federation Compatibility

[chrisvella]

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.

[radalin]

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.

[rockneverdies55]

👍

[marceloschmidt]

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.

[guiraldelli]

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.

[nickbroon]

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.

[benlangfeld]

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