Bhante Subharo<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a> enthusiasts out there: what would you say the ultimate Achilles heel of the XMPP ecosystem is, at present? Fragmentation of clients? What?</p><p>My sense is that it's this: when one goes to store an XMPP address in one's addressbook, there doesn't seem to be standard way to store an XMPP address. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> doesn't have that as an allowable field, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thunderbird</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nextcloud</span></a> have an "Instant Messaging" field, where the type can be set to "XMPP". But are these two compatible with each other when trying to sync between them? Edit: Yes, but there's a catch: *the XMPP address must be prefixed with "xmpp:"*</p><p>So "user@foo.bar" is not an OK XMPP address, but "<a href="xmpp:user@foo.bar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">xmpp:</span><span class="">user@foo.bar</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>" is.</p><p>Then to make matters worse, now there's a wish to change the labeling of "XMPP Address" to "Chat ID": <a href="https://gultsch.social/@daniel/114012904576436518" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gultsch.social/@daniel/1140129</span><span class="invisible">04576436518</span></a></p><p>It might be a long time before the address synchy-ness ever works again between Android <-> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Davx5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Davx5</span></a> <-> Nextcloud <->Thunderbird</p><p>Note: Android allows a "Jabber" type for an IM address, where you *don't* prefix the address with "xmpp:". </p><p>(<a href="https://c.im/tags/DeltaChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeltaChat</span></a> gets to gloat hard here, as they have plain-old email addresses)</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/prosody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prosody</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/conversations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conversations</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gajim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gajim</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dino</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/snikket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snikket</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/monocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monocles</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/monal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monal</span></a></p>