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I used to think that #emoji #reactions are for the illiterate.

Then I got addicted to them in Signal and Matrix.

Now I can't wait for #Jabber clients to implement them. Why is this #XEP still experimental after 5 years, @larma ?
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0444.html

#xmpp #xep444 #emojiReactions

in reply to Christian Pietsch ๐Ÿ‘

We (The XSF / People who write and implement XEPs) have a tendency to wait with advancing a XEP to stable until we have sufficient implementation experience.
Your question (which matters more for end users) should be: Why hasn't this been implemented?
Implementing reactions is not as straight as it might seem. Both #Conversations_im and #Gajim wanted to rewrite the database layer to accommodate this feature. On the Conversations side we also wanted to rework the UI before this.
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

@daniel
Monal will get these too, as soon as we are done rewriting the chat ui (which we will start sometime this year)
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

@daniel

Thank you for sharing your insights, and for your excellent XMPP app #conversations_IM!

Does anyone know about implementation plans for @dino?

/cc @larma

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