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1 Account based MUC joining |
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2 ========================= |
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4 Normally when joining a MUC groupchat, it is each individual client that |
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5 joins. This means their presence in the group is tied to the session, |
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6 which can be short-lived or unstable, especially in the case of mobile |
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7 clients. |
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9 This has a few problems. For one, for every message to the groupchat, a |
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10 copy is sent to each joined client. This means that at the account |
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11 level, each message would pass by once for each client that is joined, |
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12 making it difficult to archive these messages in the users personal |
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13 archive. |
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15 A potentially better approach would be that the user account itself is |
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16 the entity that joins the groupchat. Since the account is an entity that |
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17 lives in the server itself, and the server tends to be online on a good |
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18 connection most of the time, this may improve the experience and |
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19 simplify some problems. |
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21 This is one of the essential changes in the MIX architecture, which is |
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22 being designed to replace MUC. |
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24 `mod_minimix` is an experiment meant to determine if things can be |
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25 improved without replacing the entire MUC standard. It works by |
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26 pretending to each client that nothing is different and that they are |
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27 joining MUCs directly, but behind the scenes, it arranges it such that |
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28 only the account itself joins each groupchat. Which sessions have joined |
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29 which groups are kept track of. Groupchat messages are then forked to |
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30 those sessions, similar to how normal chat messages work. |
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32 Known issues |
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33 ------------ |
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35 - You can never leave. |
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36 - You will never see anyone leave. |
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38 Unknown issues |
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41 - Probably many. |
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43 Compatibility |
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44 ============= |
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46 Briefly tested with Prosody trunk (as of this writing). |