Hi,
not sure if this is best place to start a discussion, but I wanted to
throw out my view on a minimum viable calling solution for loop.
The link clicker in my view is not an acceptable solution for the end user.
It would be as if I give my parents a phone number where reachable for
the next X hours, but if they want to call me tomorrow they first need
to ask me via email (or some other communication tool) what my number
today is. In my experience this is really hard to explain to
non-technical people.
The other reason is that on mobile devices it is not easy to copy a URL
from a calling app into some other communication tool to send it out to
some.
On the other hand on desktop I don't see why we have to have an address
book integration a.k.a. contacts. This is only valuable if my address
book contains the Firefox Account email of my contact, or the contact
has verified his phone number via the Loop MSISDN server. Both are
pretty unlikely in my opinion.
Never the less I think a direct calling solution based on authenticated
URLs is viable. If we integrate Firefox Accounts that would allow me to
hand out either my email address or maybe permanent URL like
loop.com/nils as the URL where I'm permanently reachable. Without an
address book integrated into the Loop client this would require some
form of input field where I can enter the email address or URL of the
target user. But that should be easy to implement.
We could also store once dialed email addresses or URLs locally for
convenience until we have a server based address book integration.
Best regards
Nils Ohlmeier
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