Push notifications have a lot of moving parts. To help people figure out where things may not be working (and to make sure everything is enabled), there is a new push notifications screen.
Mac Offline Contacts
Somehow when I made the Mac client I forgot to enable offline contacts. I was obviously thinking about it because there was a toggle for it in the preferences but for some reason it was never hooked to anything. Quite an oversight. One which has been resolved now in the Continue Reading
A list of good XMPP servers
I have decided I want to maintain a list of good, free XMPP servers. Primarily as a way of steering people away from Google. Additionally, assuming the owners of these servers are ok, I’m thinking of including registration links in app. I think a lot of people — including myself Continue Reading
A new settings screen
For a variety of reasons, I’ve been staying up late at night these days. This gives me time to do the kind of coding I wouldn’t do normally. UI work. It’s mindlessly easy and I find it relaxing like some people find coloring books relaxing. I know it’s an important Continue Reading
The wonders of refactoring
As I’ve purged and rewritten a lot of code recently, I am revisiting things that I implemented in 2009 and then never really looked at again — why fix something that is working? Cell sizing in a table view used to be a real pain an involved a decent amount Continue Reading
iOS Supports inline images
It has been a long time coming. iOS now has inline images. Like the Mac app, it is running HEAD to see if the link sent over is an image. Improperly configured web servers may not work here. However, this works very nicely with XEP-0363. This is for HTTPS only Monal Continue Reading
Showing images by default
When I originally added inline images I had it turned off by default because of privacy concerns. It seems that most people prefer it to be on or don’t even know it is an option. It seems like inline images and media (images, video, url previews etc. ) are just Continue Reading
Monal for Mac OS 2 beta 2
I have updated the download link with Beta 2. The most notable fix in this update is the addition of the server features window under the account menu. This works identically to the iOS one.
Saying farewell to Google Talk
Google talk was great when it came out but has been abandoned by Google. I’ve been maintaining support because I know a lot of people use it, but I myself will stop using it. I’m going to try using an account on the hot chilli server rather than run my Continue Reading
Server Features
Monal hasn’t been very good about showing you what it sees on your server. This results in debugging issues becoming just a shot in the dark. I did add verbose logging to beta versions but that’s not something the average user has any use for. To rectify that, I am Continue Reading