Have to say "out of the lab" in the real world Jami sadly is unusable. I did
manage to send some photos and a few messages from my mobile linked to my
desktop account but since then it was all bad news;
I came home from the my trip out to find my father had installed jami on his
phone and added me as a contact - I found a ton of missed calls and messages
on my desktop but nothing on my phone.
Sending messages whilst I was out this morning I do have a linked device is
"odd" your outgoing text messages appear on both phone and desktop, incoming
messages to the chat only appear on the device you are typing messages on.
I typed messages to a contact whilst I was out this morning, I don't know if
they even got there as I just got the circle of dots as if it was trying.
Sending a pic got "Failed to send" straight away. Even now 45 minute later I
still got the circling dots on the message.
All of this and the contacts are still showing as online.
Finally, the desktop interface for jami on Trisquel mini is shocking!
Definably designed by an engineer and a different UI!
A great idea and I can only assume it relies on many more active nodes on the
Internet to make the network reliable. Maybe they should deploy a ton of
ghost nodes around the world to make jami work reliably, decommissioning them
if/when take up is achieved.
As M/S managed to kill my skype account due to repeated "suspicious activity"
on my account, suspected by pidgin with skypeweb plugin. I remember RS
promoting XMPP protocol based clients, I understand although not
decentralised more reliable. More research for today.
