XSF Discussion - 2021-02-03


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  269. flow

    jonas’> and for the record, I know of at least one implementation which does not guarantee the order and which would with that change become non-compliant care to reveal the name of the implementation?

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  275. flow

    Zash, why do you think the non-SRV fallback was a mistake?

  276. Zash

    If it works without it, why bother?

  277. Zash

    And that's how you get things ignoring it.

  278. flow

    Given that even today many devices, incl routers, prevent SRV lookups, it appears to be a nice mechanism to achieve connectivity, even in hostile environments

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  280. flow

    So it is again a trade-off

  281. Zash

    So we should only use TLS on 443 for everything ever?

  282. flow

    Not sure if I follow

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  284. flow

    it is a trade off, because maybe without the non-SRV fallback XMPPs reputation would be worse, cause "it often does not connect for some reason"

  285. SamWhited

    Does anyone have a client recommendation that actually works for Windows? Got a friend asking and, sadly, I have no idea what to tell them

  286. flow

    and I think I would always strive to increase the chances the client is able to connect, whereas server operators are often able to forwards the fallback port to the right machine (what yax.im potentially does)

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  288. SamWhited

    Also what free servers are available these days that aren't constantly offline? I never know what to recommend to people who aren't super tech savvy

  289. lovetox

    SamWhited, Gajim and jabber.fr

  290. SamWhited

    This person doesn't speak french so I probably shouldn't point them at that one

  291. lovetox

    why?

  292. SamWhited

    Sorry, should have said, as far as I know they only speak english

  293. SamWhited

    Because the whole web page is in french and they probably want to be able to setup an account :)

  294. lovetox

    there is no french speaking needed to register at that server

  295. lovetox

    you can register from within gajim

  296. lovetox

    the account creation wizard will lead him through the process, he just has to type jabber.fr into the filed

  297. SamWhited

    I don't think that's going to be most peoples first instinct. If I say "you can get an account at this server" they're probably going to try and find tutorials or try to visit the site

  298. Zash

    flow, I came to that conclusion at some point and I don't have the reasoning in my head atm. Something about optional things being bad and unreliable.

  299. lovetox

    i thought its your friend

  300. lovetox

    hm there are a number of other servers

  301. SamWhited

    lovetox: they are, but they are non technical and I'm having a hard enough time convincing them to use XMPP at all without being like "Oh, and setup will be too complicated so I'll have to walk you through every step". I want fewer things to scare them off, and visiting the site and not being able to read it probably won't give them a good first impression :)

  302. Link Mauve

    We’d like to eventually translate the website, but the PHP horror that it currently is doesn’t let us do that easily yet.

  303. lovetox

    i think on the C site the compliance tester has a lot of servers

  304. SamWhited

    Yah, I'm looking at the status page right now, not sure which ones are actually good to recommend though. Ever since jabber.at shut down I haven't had one that I know and trust to be solid and reliable

  305. mathieui

    But also, yes IBR is open, but our status outages are in french, as is the support room (even though we of course can answer english inquiries), so that should not be a top pick

  306. SamWhited

    Yah, don't get me wrong, I've heard good things about jabber.fr and would probably recommend it to people if I knew they spoke french, I just don't want that to be a barrier for this person :)

  307. mathieui

    I don’t really know the public english servers

  308. mathieui

    404.city exists, I don’t know what it amounts to, but it seems maintained

  309. Link Mauve

    Maybe conversations.im, if they’re fine with paying every year.

  310. lovetox

    But SamWhited i dont get how its more work for you to tell someone to go to a webpage and register, then just telling them, put this URL into the Gajim signup filed

  311. Link Mauve

    The price of having an English website. :)

  312. SamWhited

    It's not more work for me, but if they try to find tutorials or visit the site it's just one more "scary" thing for them to have to deal with. I'm trying to minimize the pain, and that means a site that has support and what not in a language they understand.

  313. mathieui

    SamWhited, there is https://status.conversations.im/

  314. SamWhited

    mathieui: that's what I'm looking through :)

  315. mathieui

    oh sorry, https://status.conversations.im/historical/

  316. SamWhited

    I just don't know which ones are actually good

  317. mathieui

    but not updated anymore

  318. SamWhited

    Thanks; went with Gajim and yax.im, which I forgot was public but which I know Ge0rG keeps up and running. Hopefully they'll be able to register without too much trouble.

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  324. jonas’

    mathieui, fwiw, 404.city has mod_block_strangers loaded

  325. mathieui

    Oh well

  326. emus

    lovetox, SamWhited: At Kaidan we have defined soft categories whether a server should be suitable to recommend or not. E.g. website language. I think this is important from the point when one need support

  327. SamWhited

    I vaguely remembered 404.city arguing they should be part of some list and people saying their uptime was bad, or they did something else bad (maybe mod_block_strangers) and I couldn't remember what it was so I didn't consider them, but considering I don't even remember the details maybe that was a bad assumption (and apologies to the owner if they're here and I'm just misremembering that there was something bad about the service)

  328. SamWhited

    emus: oh cool, I'd be curious to see those if you have them listed somewhere

  329. SamWhited

    I never know what to recommend to people, so that would be helpful.

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  333. Ge0rG

    It used to be a simple JSON at https://invent.kde.org/network/kaidan/-/blob/master/data/servers.json

  334. Ge0rG

    Currently, a draft for a more complex JSON is worked on at https://invent.kde.org/melvo/xmpp-providers

  335. emus

    ^

  336. SamWhited

    I'm still hesitant about clients, just quickly doing a search for "best windows XMPP client" I see why they were concerned. Everything looks like early 2000's or 90's UIs, most of these I didn't know still existed or are like Pidgin and haven't been updated in *years*, etc.

  337. Ge0rG

    But whenever I open that tab and I see the four-levels-deep-nested-JSON I just close the tab.

  338. mathieui

    SamWhited, gajim 1.3.0 looks quite good imo (but not final release yet)

  339. SamWhited

    I recommended Gajim like people said because it's not terrible on Linux, so hopefully it looks okay on Windows and doesn't have the same old "GTK looks bad" problems everyting used to have

  340. Ge0rG

    SamWhited: good news! Pidgin was recently upgraded to CVE-2017-5589

  341. mathieui

    Ge0rG, that json is wrong! jabber.fr is online since 2003, not 2012!

  342. Ge0rG

    SamWhited: current gajim nightlies work decently on windows. *And* there is a Bruno theme!

  343. lovetox

    SamWhited, we are currently reworking the GUI in Gajim to look more like todays messengers

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  345. SamWhited

    Although I admit, I'm hesitant because even on Linux Gajim still shows me python stack dumps on occasion, and I wouldn't want non-tech people to ever see the "Programming Error" pop up

  346. Ge0rG

    mathieui: make a PR

  347. lovetox

    but we still need 4-6 months

  348. SamWhited

    yah, hopefully it will work well enough for them and they'll be impressed as updates come out

  349. lovetox

    SamWhited, about error popups

  350. lovetox

    so you would say the application should just not work on an error

  351. lovetox

    and show nothing?

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  353. SamWhited

    lovetox: I don't know what it should show, but definitely not a giant stack dump, that's just scary :)

  354. lovetox

    its not giant, its a little popup with a message what happend and what the next steps are that the user can take

  355. lovetox

    but yeah when i think about other software

  356. lovetox

    i never see errors

  357. lovetox

    i think they just op to silently fail

  358. lovetox

    or they are perfect and never have errors :D

  359. SamWhited

    Most things probably show a "Something went wrong, do you want to report this?" I think

  360. SamWhited

    With maybe an advanced view where you can see the error if you're the type who can do something about it.

  361. lovetox

    of course we could hide the data and only show it on advanced

  362. lovetox

    but it was important to me that the user sees exactly the data which get reported

  363. lovetox

    otherwise im confronted with allegations that Gajim phones home or something

  364. SamWhited

    I think errors fall into a couple of categories: things that the user can do something about (eg. "this search was invalid, please don't use special characters") which generally shouldn't interrupt the workflow and should tell the user how to fix it

  365. SamWhited

    Things the user can't do anything about but need to know about and are just informational ("this server is offline, please wait a bit and try again")

  366. SamWhited

    And things the user can't do anything about but someone else can (eg. "this thing crashed, our bad, here's a link to send us a report and you can expand the advanced view to see the stack dump if you want")

  367. SamWhited

    Maybe also "things which really can just silently fail because they're not errors and we expect them to fail sometimes". I don't have an example of that, I imagine it's rare, but it might exist.

  368. SamWhited

    Anyways, I don't know how to best handle them, but eg. Slack never shows me a scary stack dump, but also it doesn't seem like things silently just don't work

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  384. SamWhited

    jcbrand: in converse.js does it not pick the same name you're already using in a chat by default? Same friend also found that and logged in with it because he didn't want to install anything on his work laptop, but is asking why it's making his name "<username>2" or something instead of just being the same as Gajim

  385. SamWhited

    sorry, wrong room, meant to take that to the converse room and just went back to the one I was just asking in out of habbit

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  434. jcbrand

    SamWhited: I've responded in the Converse MUC

  435. Sam

    Thanks; sorry for the room mixup.

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  444. Sam

    (looks like a bug in Converse, FYI; the author says it should use the existing username)

  445. Sam

    *facepalm* why does my recent chat thing keep defaulting to this room?

  446. Sam

    Sorry again.

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  457. lovetox

    :D

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