Conversations: [request] vCard support

Created on 12 Aug 2015 · 6Comments · Source: iNPUTmice/Conversations

Hello,

I think it would be great if Conversations support vCard and even pubsub. being able to see information about ones contacts vias vCard like, Avatar, email, location, bio etc. is very useful to me.

Also a pubsub support like in webclients like jappix and movim would make Conversations the best XMPP in the world.

Thank you.

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Dragnucs

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@iNPUTmice, you must have got it wrong. This is not about social nets features.
vCard is used in xmpp to get basic contact's information like Name and Surname.
Actually it's ridiculous that a user can't get any information about his peer besides JID (useless) and photo (which is optional).

ildar on 16 Apr 2016

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Conversations is deliberately not a social networking app. If you want social networking there are already alternatives like movim for example.

iNPUTmice on 1 Sep 2015

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ildar on 16 Apr 2016

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@iNPUTmice +1

On 16 April 2016 05:25:10 WEST, ildar [email protected] wrote:

@iNPUTmice, you must have got it wrong. This is not about social nets
features.
vCard is used in xmpp to get basic contact's information like Name and
Surname.
Actually it's ridiculous that a user can't get any information about
his peer besides JID (useless) and photo (which is optional).

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Dragnucs on 16 Apr 2016

@iNPUTmice, you must have got it wrong. This is not about social nets features.
vCard is used in xmpp to get basic contact's information like Name and Surname.
Actually it's ridiculous that a user can't get any information about his peer besides JID (useless) and photo (which is optional).

I am completely in line with you.

ghost on 16 Apr 2016

I agree with @ildar .
As an example of non-social use case for vCard, the mod_email_pass Prosody module uses the e-mail address in the vCard in order to provide password reset functionality.