Future of XMPP

[psivesely]

Presently, I think that the section on XMPP apps is almost where it should be (I'm going to add a link to this quick tutorial on using ChatSecure w/ Orbot, and maybe this one on using Pidgin w/ Tor on GNU/Linux--although I feel it might be lacking).

I'm creating this issue to discuss changes to future editions considering the recent invention of OMEMO and that promising new mobile XMPP apps like Zom around the corner. Conversations, which created and is currently the only app to support OMEMO, is quite stable, featureful, and has nice UI+UX. Unfortunately, you can only get it for free on F-Droid and it's only for Android. Both these things could change in the future. Zom might also be a nice replacement for ChatSecure at some point because of it's focus on simplicity.

6 months from now we should see where Zom, ChatSecure, and Conversations are re-evaluate our mobile XMPP client recommendations. Unfortunately, no desktop clients are working on OMEMO support, AFAIK. However, if one that was audited, easy-to-use, etc. came up or Pidgin/ Adium integrated support, we should definitely recommend using OMEMO on the desktop over OTR as well.