Hey, I have been looking to work on building a social network and a social network around XMPP seems nice.
I have experience with Django, so in case you decide to take the idea forward, I will really want to work on it. Thanks! On Sunday, February 8, 2015, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there > > What happened with the `XMPP as a social network` idea? I would love to > see a social network build on XMPP soon. There are a few projects yet: > * Jappix: Runs very well, but its a bit ugly / complicated for new users > and the theme is outdated (in my opinion) [1]. > * Movim: Not so kick-ass as they described. Crashs very often (on my own > box) and there is no `easy` option to let (new) user register on my own > xmpp server [2]. > * Onesocialweb is dead [3]. > * Social Stream: The last commit was at Jun 5, 2014. And its written in > ruby [4]. > * Buddycloud is nice, but its written in Java and Java has many security > risks [5]. > > So is `XMPP as a social network` a misuse of the xmpp `standard` / basic > idea? > > Because I'm going to write an open-source social network based on XMPP > (mostly pubsub). Maybe in a nicer language (i.e. javascript /php (file > upload and so on) / python (django) ). It should have an activity flow, > like Social Stream [4], a Chat (w OTR support), like converse.js [6] and > thats all for now. It should be very basic and secure and more suitable for > people with less xmpp experience. That means, simple login / user creation, > simple posting (w maybe like / dislike) and post reading (activity flow), > chat w/o otr. > > I don't know why the other projects are dead or `not working well` so I > hope you folks can give me tricks, hints & pitfalls if I should / shouldn't > launch the new project I mentioned above. > > Thanks so far for your thoughts. > > Cheers > > Christian Homeyer > > [1] https://github.com/jappix/jappix > [2] https://launchpad.net/movim > [3] http://onesocialweb.org/ / https://twitter.com/OneSocialWeb > [4] https://github.com/ging/social_stream/ > [5] https://github.com/buddycloud > [6] https://github.com/jcbrand/converse.js > _______________________________________________ > JDev mailing list > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > -- -- Rashid Khan http://www.imrashid.com
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