Re: Proposed XMPP Extension: Explicit Mentions

Thilo Molitor <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:07:21 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig
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Am Donnerstag, 2. April 2026, 02:16:55 CEST schrieb Stephen Paul Weber:
> Somebody signing messages as Thilo Molitor wrote:
> >> These all seem like the same case. A room "mention" notifies the user. A
> >> message containing a mention notifies the user. An urgent message
> >> notifies
> >> the user.
> >
> >Not exactly: on iOS for example, you can turn on something called "focus
> >mode", which will mute/hide all notifications. Apps can break through focus
> >mode for individual notifications if needed.
> >For me, XEP-0224 is the exact right XEP to let the sender break through
> >focus mode. Using it for mentions instead would mean I'd have to reinvent
> >XEP-0224 for the focus mode usecase. I'd rather like a new XEP for the
> >various types of mentions rather than having to reinvent XEP-0224 to be
> >able to implement the focus mode usecase.
> 
> For 1:1 this is perfectly sensible, but do you want people in a MUC to be
> able to break through focus mode?

Yes, depending on the MUC (private group, configurable in my client, 
differentiating between participants of that MUC).
So the XEP should at least allow this and leave it up to the client 
implementation on what configuration level gets exposed to the user.

-tmolitor

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