XSF Discussion - 2021-12-30

The client with the highest priority wins.

https://share.conversations.im/stefank/RmbQpQBOJa4n5OI1/Priority.png

This is an example in profanity.

oh wow, there is still one client which uses/shows priority? ;)

Movim still store it in the db :D

The priority thing should die, it was a mechanism to tell the server to which client to route messages in a time where servers did not route messages to all clients

now that this is fixed its useless complexity

I have that prosody module which sets all priorities to 0.

My users don't know and don't care about priority.

and what purpose does this have?

Prevent that somehow a client gets accidentally set a low priority and doesn't get messages. Not really sure why I enabled it in the first place. But if you make sure all prios are 0 this is an eliminated error source. 😃

detach 'receive messages' from 'is available' in Routing 2.0?

We're half-way there, depending on just what happens if you enable Carbons while unavailable

Ah. FWIW, I keep mumbling that <show/> and particularly <status/> ought to live in PEP these days. (Though <show/> has uses in a per-device sense).

mdosch, There's a handful of use-cases for negative priority. mind.

What do they even do if you also have Carbons enabled?

What are negative priorities used for? ✏

mdosch, in the olden days, it made you appear online but you did not receive messages

What's the use case?

Lost in the mists of time

Write-only bots?

mdosch: use-cases such as special-purpose (non-IM) clients connected to your account which should be discoverable but not swallow your messages

Games, for example

If you were careful, you could get your messages routed only to the device you were at. So like, if you leave work and set negative priority, then go online when you get home, any messages sent while you were traveling would be received there, instead of show up at work where you would not see them until the next day.

In the dark ages, before Carbons and MAM

@board I'm at the hospital, so might not make it

The meeting 😀

ralphm - everything alright?

Yeah, nothing to worry about.

ok

Anyway get well!

Or maybe: Get away safely