On 15/03/18 19:13, Simon McVittie wrote:
the hard division between one-to-one messages and chatrooms in XMPP is unlike the variable-number-of-users "switchboards" in the now-defunct MSNP.)
Out of interest, does Telepathy expose that difference? To me, that kind of distinction seems like an implementation detail that I would expect to be abstracted away.
If the UX that your users expect is very much "the same shape" for a pair of protocols, then perhaps it makes sense to have an abstraction across those protocols; but is that really the case for all of them?
Good question. You tell me? :-)
I asked a friend of mine if I could observe her using WhatsApp. To me
it looks a lot like, if not exactly like an SMS/MMS messaging program.
And I would imagine Facebook's Messenger program. And no doubt lots of
other messaging programs. There doesn't seem to be any difference in
the basic UX. Group conversations, one-to-one conversations, text,
emojis, pictures, videos, possibly VoIP.
Of course, I don't have the depth of protocol knowledge that Telepathy
developers like yourself built up so perhaps my view is naive.
Cheers,
Bob
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