[Standards] Re: Send-only role

Early on in our implementation of our group chat protocol, we had a separate 'send messages' and 'receive messages' rights, but then decided that no chat entity would be necessary that would not have a capability to receive all messages and we opted out of it in implementation. The case presented b

[Standards] Re: Send-only role

These all seem like things an XMPP server could choose to support. I don't think there's any standards work blocking such an implementation. It could be implemented, but wouldn't it require breaking compliance with XEP-0045 by introducing a new send-only role, cf

[Standards] Re: Send-only role

I also think that having "publicly available bots" that non-technical users could invite to their private room while maintaining decent privacy would be good. Hosting a bot may be trivial to readers here, but I think we can't reasonably expect all users to be able to set it up. These all seem

[Standards] Re: Send-only role

What can this member do? * Send messages * Send media * Add members * Pin messages * Change group info Restricted until: * Forever * For 1 day * For 1 week * Custom These all seem like things an XMPP server could choose to support. I don't think there's any standards work blocking such an impl

[Standards] Re: Send-only role

Here are more restrictions Telegram provides for controlling users in groups: https://i.imgur.com/w1mYzZ2.png Transcription: --- What can this member do? * Send messages * Send media * Add members * Pin messages * Change group info Restricted until: * Forever * For 1 day * For 1 week * Custom __