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openstreetmap / openstreetmap-website

The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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Notify via Jabber/XMPP #2102

Open contrapunctus-1 opened 5 years ago

contrapunctus-1 commented 5 years ago

It'd be very cool if users could opt to have all notifications (currently sent via email) to be sent to their Jabber ID instead.

tomhughes commented 5 years ago

For the one person in the world still using jabber I assume? It's basically dead and there are clearly many IM protocols which would get far more use.

Realistically I don't think we want to go down that route though as we would wind up with people wanting dozens of different protocols supported.

CuriousA62A2A commented 5 years ago

Dead as in used by small things like Facebook messenger, Origin chat, League of legends chat, Fortnite chat.

Yeah it seems really dead.

sfkeller commented 5 years ago

I understand Tom's concerns because messengers really come and go and such "integrations" increase technical debt overproportionally.

What's IMO needed much more, is a communication API/service.

CuriousA62A2A commented 5 years ago

sfkeller that is probably the way to go. Tom might also consider being less snarky and wrong since I only magically appear when people are both.

tomhughes commented 5 years ago

I didn't think FB was using it any more, at least in any standard way?

gravitystorm commented 5 years ago

I think it's reasonable that people want to receive notifications in different ways, and not just via emails.

A full rework of our notification system would allow us to make many different improvements, such as showing notifications in the web interface, notifications via other services (like XMPP etc), and allowing users to chose how they would like their notifications handled. This is not a trivial amount of work though.