Sup is a New Messaging App by the Creator of Pixelfed

Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlmod to Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 211 points –
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A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as "an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse."

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XMPP is fantastic, but I feel as though it suffers from half-baked clients, most of which are a decade old and look the part.

I'd really love to see a "modern" WhatsApp-like take on an XMPP messenger, but I haven't found any. Admittedly, I haven't looked in some time.

Give it another look. The popular Android client Conversations is getting an UI overhaul right now (unreleased), Monal for iOS has also improved a lot, and this is a promising looking take on a Telegram like UI: https://moxxy.org/

Dino and Gajim also improved a lot on the desktop side. Overall there is some renewed interest by client developers and the Jabber federation is growing again I think.

That's really great news! I'll look into those. šŸ˜

@deadsuperhero
I agree, I use xmpp all the time, but the clients are really underwhelming... Not sure how it's so complicated to give them a facelift to update them while keeping the existing functionality. This reminds me of the debates about the #blender ui in the past, where gray beards argued that the interface was just fine....aesthetics matter;)
@poVoq

Same with K9. But they did finally a really good facelift.

@Samsy
I'll need to take a look, I haven't used k9 in ages

Its one of the best apps actually. Swipe gestures, openpgp, material you (?).

@Samsy
Wow, you were right very nice. Amazing what a little polish can do.

Another app that transformed with UI updates is gajim, the desktop xmpp client.