Ben Roberts

Kyle Mahan February 16, 2015 1:22 PM

my generation deserves better chat clients than Hangouts and iMessage

February 16, 2015 1:40 PM

What would make the ideal chat client?

Kyle Mahan February 16, 2015 2:06 PM

Not looking for ideal, I just want the experience of AIM circa 2001 back… :/

gRegor Morrill February 16, 2015 4:49 PM

Indieweb Instant Messenger! Let’s make it happen. :]

Kyle Mahan February 16, 2015 6:25 PM

Tell you what though; I’m kind of thinking private posts and webmentions behind site-to-site oauth is a dead end. So many points of (invisible) ...

February 16, 2015 10:52 PM Shortlink In Reply To https://kylewm.com/2015/02/tell-you-what-though-i-m-kind-of-thinking-private

I agree it feels pretty heavy for what it is doing, perhaps for this protocol it would have some authenticated version of webmention that would include the body of the message. This way it gracefully falls back to standard webmention.

Ben Roberts February 16, 2015 10:58 PM Vouched

actually, thats sort of what we have here, just becomes a matter of making mention sends immediate, mention receives immediate and polling ...