On 2/27/19 5:18 AM, Georg Lukas wrote: > * Thilo Molitor <[email protected]> [2019-02-17 14:03]: >> Does anyone of you use XEP-0013 in your client other than for purging >> offline >> messages when you support MAM? > > To write down our discussion from the MUC: I think this is a bad idea > for multiple reasons. > > 1. 0013 is just a workaround for a problem that should be solved by MAM > instead (duplication between offline messages and the data from MAM). > > 2. 0013 is prone to race conditions between the deletion of the offline > messages, the MAM query and the available presence, where messages will > be duplicated in the best case and lost in the worst case. > > 3. Use of 0013 does not imply MAM.
IMHO it's time to declare XEP-0013 obsolete. It served a purpose when we defined it in 2003, but we have much better solutions now. Peter
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