Re: The `XMPP as a social network` idea
stefan <[email protected]>
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Welcome, h8h or for short: 'troll', to jdev! I am truly sorry but my mother forbids me to feed you. Have a nice day! /Stefan On 2015-02-08 18:16, [email protected] wrote: > Hi there > > What happened with the `XMPP as a social network` idea? I would love > to see a social network build on XMPP soon. There are a few projects yet: > * Jappix: Runs very well, but its a bit ugly / complicated for new > users and the theme is outdated (in my opinion) [1]. > * Movim: Not so kick-ass as they described. Crashs very often (on my > own box) and there is no `easy` option to let (new) user register on > my own xmpp server [2]. > * Onesocialweb is dead [3]. > * Social Stream: The last commit was at Jun 5, 2014. And its written > in ruby [4]. > * Buddycloud is nice, but its written in Java and Java has many > security risks [5]. > > So is `XMPP as a social network` a misuse of the xmpp `standard` / > basic idea? > > Because I'm going to write an open-source social network based on XMPP > (mostly pubsub). Maybe in a nicer language (i.e. javascript /php (file > upload and so on) / python (django) ). It should have an activity > flow, like Social Stream [4], a Chat (w OTR support), like converse.js > [6] and thats all for now. It should be very basic and secure and more > suitable for people with less xmpp experience. That means, simple > login / user creation, simple posting (w maybe like / dislike) and > post reading (activity flow), chat w/o otr. > > I don't know why the other projects are dead or `not working well` so > I hope you folks can give me tricks, hints & pitfalls if I should / > shouldn't launch the new project I mentioned above. > > Thanks so far for your thoughts. > > Cheers > > Christian Homeyer > > [1] https://github.com/jappix/jappix > [2] https://launchpad.net/movim > [3] http://onesocialweb.org/ / https://twitter.com/OneSocialWeb > [4] https://github.com/ging/social_stream/ > [5] https://github.com/buddycloud > [6] https://github.com/jcbrand/converse.js > _______________________________________________ > JDev mailing list > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________