Suggestion: XMPP Messaging

[pandoraserbe]

Hi,

are there any plans for supporting XMPP (also know as „Jabber“) in the future?

XMPP could be a great alternative for the email notifications: The user could receive a short message and link to incoming new private messages or changes in subscribed threads and blogs. Group chat is also possible.

This would also increase the integration with other services, as XMPP is the foundation of the facebook chat (alone more than 400 million members), GoogleTalk, iChat and various other.

I think this would be a very useful enhancement.

Regards,
Friedrich

(http://www.pandoras-erbe.de technical staff)

[Robulosity2]

Using facebook chat as a feature isn't really a sound idea since it's a pile of crap =D

[pandoraserbe]

Maybe facebook's implementation is, I don't know.

But XMPP is very flexible and used by many other services, too.
And nearly every other instant messanging program knows it: iChat, Pidign, Kopete, Trillian, Miranda, Adium

[bfarber]

I tend to doubt we'd build in XMPP notifications to IPB. I don't think it holds enough usage to warrant the amount of development time it would take to implement.

[pandoraserbe]

Ok, i suspected this.

No problem, I'll build it myself.