Chat feature taken away

[Rob]

Hi everyone

I was very saddened to read that the XMPP-chat feature was taken out of the project totally:

Removing diaspora*s current chat integration

Aloha friends, it’s me again with a fresh new wall of text for you all to consume. This time, I’m writing to you about something that came up in the April hackathon. You’ve read the title, so you know what it’s about. We spent a significant amount of time during our weekend hackathon reflecting on our past and looking ahead into the future, and even if that sounds super philosophic, we actually came up with some amazing plans. However, as part of such a session, you also have to acknowledge whe…

So there is no way at all to integrate an XMPP chat into the Diaspora UI even five years after this post?

What about future plans on making a chat function in the Diaspora system?

Thank you so much,
Rob

[denschub (Dennis Schubert)]

The post you linked explains exactly why the chat was removed. It also very clearly states that we have no intentions of adding a XMPP-based chat ever again. That’s unlikely to change.

If you have specific questions in relation to that announcement from 2019, then please post in that thread.