3 gens of IM, next steps for XMPP
Since the publication online of the slides of my talk at FOSDEM 2016, right after the XMPP Summit 19, I have developed the three generations of IM in text:
- Welcome to the third generation of Instant Messaging! Part 1/2: on 1st and 2nd gen
- Welcome to the third generation of Instant Messaging! Part 2/2: on 3rd gen and summary table
Before you go on this current article, please really do read those « 3 gens of IM » articles pointed before.
Ready?
After such a market observations for months and years, with analysts, with customers and prospects, with developers worldwide, users of all sorts, startupers, agile and lean startup practitioners, I think we can tell what XMPP specs, clients, libraries, and servers makers need to work on…
What we need to develop as specs in priority:
- full text search of archive;
- in-chat media, with previews (HTTP file upload is only a good beginning);
- MUC without disruption: recover your archive while you were offline (MIX is going slowly and is too heavy+complex);
- group voice and video;
- stickers, maybe;
- easily recover and change passwords like any modern app through an SMS or email.
Service administrators need to deploy massively MAM and Carbons, for multi-device experience.
The top priority for all client developers:
- really, really go full flat design;
- desktop clients need to really, really go single-window;
- implement and use MAM and Carbons, and enable those by default;
- presence and roster should be pushed back a little from the user interface, in favor of discussions/conversations.
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