Hello everyone! Well, you read correctly: Monal supports group chat and voice messages now! Apart from this an insane amount of work has been put into this update. Let’s look at the details! But first let’s say many thanks to our core developers who made this update happen: Thilo Molitor Continue Reading
Vaxbot on Canadian National News
Vaxbot, a service built by the Monal team to vaccinate people in the US and Canada was featured on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) The National and was broadcast nationwide. This was great exposure for the project and XMPP in general, introducing it to a whole new population that likely Continue Reading
Monal 5.0 RC2 ready
We fixed some bugs in this second release candidate: fixed background image bug fixed wrong message direction displayed for some incoming messages in non-anon mucs fixed reconnect-all button in logs settings fixed changing of roster names of contact via contact details
Monal 5.0 RC1 ready
We are pleased to announce that we just published a new beta build (746) of Monal 5.0 (iOS and macOS) If nothing big happens, this will be the last beta build of Monal 5.0 and we’ll finally see the release of Monal 5.0 stable next week!
Vaxbot US shutting down
Vaccines are readily available in the US now, you can walk in to a pharmacy anywhere and get it. There is no need for the Vaxbot service (http://vaccine.monal.im) here anymore. After 11 million alerts sent out, we have shutdown US operations last week on May 8th and start focusing on Continue Reading
Vaxbot continues to grow
Our Vaxbot (vaccine.monal.im) has continued to grow. We just hit 8 million messages sent and send around 800,000 messages a day. XMPP and Vaxbot have been on TV news in Las Vegas and South Carolina, the radio in Washington as well newspapers all over the country. We mention XMPP and Continue Reading
Monal 5 beta 4
Mac and iOS betas are now up. NOTETHIS BETA WILL DELETE ALL EXISTING MUC MESSAGES AND MUC BUDDIES.MUC SUPPORT IS CURRENTLY IN A ALPHA STATE. Ready basic group message support (without (pleasing) UI) Message quote action Fixed appex / main app race conditions Displaying group messages in activeChatsViewController Displaying ToFU Continue Reading
Monal stats 3/2021
We don’t track the number of users Monal has. We only do see thousands of downloads in the App Store statistics. Any user counting and crash tracking provided by Apple is strictly opt-in only. So it always undercounts. However because every user registers a push device with the push server Continue Reading
Monal vaccine progress
Quick update on the vaccination project with monal. We have crossed 1000 new XMPP users using the service. The rate of growth is accelerating and the next thousand will likely be faster than the first. we have also sent out almost 250 thousand vaccine notifications. This number will likely not Continue Reading
XMPP: Ending this pandemic (Part 1)
I made my XMPP based vaccine notification bot available to the general public about a week ago. The service is available at vaccine.monal.im . In the last three days I have sent 129 thousand notifications. Over the past week hundreds of Americans of all ages and from all walks of Continue Reading