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Matrix: a new specification for federated realtime chat

Posted Feb 23, 2015 5:29 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Matrix: a new specification for federated realtime chat by flussence
Parent article: Matrix: a new specification for federated realtime chat

> after considerable pressure from the users.

They went through all the work to GPL it and then it seemed to just…die. I've seen updates go by in F-Droid, so I had guessed something picked back up. Good to hear, but I've since moved onto Conversations (which is also Android 5-ish in appearance).

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Matrix: a new specification for federated realtime chat

Posted Feb 23, 2015 16:54 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I've tested the Xabber 0.10 versions in F-Droid - the UI has finally caught up, but there's zero new functionality besides that and I also ran into tons of bugs using it. (And then Google's idea of OS package management helpfully destroyed a year of chat history when I tried to downgrade...)

I might switch to Conversations for the time being, or at least keep it around as a backup client.