Presence flapping is an ongoing problem: at sender level, at server level,
at receiver level.




Nicolas Vérité (Nÿco)


On 20 Oct at 16:13, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

On 20 Oct 2017, at 14:47, vaibhav singh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Kim Alvefur <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 04:01:31PM +0530, vaibhav singh wrote:
> > a person who was logging in and out of IM frequently.
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> One possible way to mitigate this would be to collapse such events and
> only show the last one. Swift does a good job of this in MUCs. The
> Prosody community module mod_throttle_presence¹ does something similar
> serverside when CSI is enabled. A client could also do something like
> slowly fade in and out the contact if it's the flickering that is
> annoying.
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> ¹ https://modules.prosody.im/mod_throttle_presence.html
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> Hi Kim,
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> XEP-0352 (CSI) seems to be really relevant for prolonging battery life of
> my phone, and I would honestly want these optimizations to be enabled by
> every XMPP service provider.
> However, it still doesn't solve my main issue of enabling the client to
> block someones presence packets for some period of time.
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> I think you’re jumping to a technical solution here (block presence) for
> something that sounds like a UI problem. If someone changing presence
> frequently is causing issues, probably the client authors should be
> thinking about why that is. This doesn’t sound like something that needs
> solving at the protocol level to me.
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> /K
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