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Hippo 🍉

Just "released" the first usable version of , an messaging app for and feature phones! :xmpp:

git.disroot.org/badrihippo/con

I was hoping to release a more complete version as 1.0, but that's taking a while, and people are already starting to use it as it is (especially with the impending shuttering of on KaiOS) so I decided to get this out right away 📦

I've also submitted to the , so hopefully it should be out there soon 🍌

@danialbehzadi @badrihippo

What is this for? An empty ping? Maybe you are playing ping pong? PONG

@badrihippo Hey, that's great! You should consider adding a DOAP file and have your client listed on xmpp.org/software/?platform=al !

Have you tested the client against Openfire? I've got no experience with KaiOS, but I'd be happy to help debug Openfire-specific issues with the client!

xmpp.orgXMPPXMPP - The universal messaging standard

@guusdk a...what? TIL there's something called a DOAP file 😅

Yep I'll check it out and do that; thanks!

And no, I've not gotten around to testing with anything other than my personal accounts (on I think). But I'll let you know when I do 🔥

@badrihippo sweet! If you do want to get started with Openfire testing, then this guide is probably helpful. It allows for a new local server to be created in the easiest possible manner that we could think of: htmlpreview.github.io/?https:/

htmlpreview.github.ioGitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview

@guusdk ooh thanks! I've signed up for a VPS (shoutout to @wedotyou) so I'll be running through some XMPP servers when that comes through :xmpp:

@guusdk I should mention that the backend for Convo is , so things *should* work. That said, there could always be problems introduced by KaiOS-specific limitations (I had to "translate" some stuff to make it run on its ancient browser engine)

@farooqkz thanks! 😇

And good work with for , which I was trying out some time back. Now nobody can say KaiOS is missing federated platforms! 😉

@badrihippo nice, thanks for making this! What versions of KaiOS does it work with? This may be the thing that pushes me over the edge to swapping back to a feature phone. Thanks again!

@sam oop I missed seeing this before. You're welcome! The more people who can switch to button phones the better, I say 😉

I've tested it on KaiOS 2 since that's the device I have (with 512MB RAM). Not sure how exactly KaiOS 3 works but it should be easy to get it going there? Especially now as I'm yet to implement any device-specific calls (like notifications); it's all standard JavaScript :javascript:

@badrihippo
Nice! I didn't know about jiophone, now I want one 😊 Unfortunately that does not seem possible in Europe

@jaj there's no JioPhone, but I think there'd be other phones running KaiOS available in Europe?

They might be a bit old though (or only on the secondhand market). For some reason KaiOS has been focusing on the USA of late. The first KaiOS 3 phone to be released outside the USA came out in Japan only recently 🇯🇵

I'll let you know if I come across any interesting European options!

@badrihippo
I didn't know KaiOS was so ubiquitous, I never heard about it!

@jaj I mean, it is still very niche despite being available all over the world. Very thinly. spread, you could say 😅