Modern XMPP project discussion - 2022-02-20

Sorry if wrong room for this q: which clients can i use for my avatar to be seen by all (most) clients that are supposed to support avatars, and which clients (if any) can see all (most) avatars correctly?

I only know xsf room as other place for xmpp-wide issues

almost all popular clients

Conversations, Gajim, Movim, to name a few of the top of my head

lovetox: can confirm conversation itself fails to see some avatars, even one that a C fork could see

thats a strong argument that not the avatar is at fault

qwestion: I had to to do a factory reset to solve this problem

maybe you have a server issue, and avatars are not distributing correctly

Im on c.im

lovetox: same excuses said to me, this is not the problem

xnamed: fact reset of what?

qwestion: yes phone factory reset ✏

xnamed: well thats no fun, did reinstalling app fail too?

qwestion: I tried reinstalling many times, not only Conversations but its forks and even using conversations.im server

qwestion: it did not show the avatars after updating the app, so if you were able to see avatars before then you probably have same problem, but to make sure before resetting your phone try a known server like conversations.im

xnamed: im already on c.im ✏

qwestion: you mean conversations.im?

Updateshavent changed which avs i see

Yes

so start conversations in debug mode and look at the logs, and search for help in the C support room

factory reseting your phone because one of your apps does not show little pictures, seems a bit excessiv

also it depends on permissions in some cases

for Rooms some clients allow users to not show avatars

I agree

It's not excessive more than repeating what I already did and didn't work

Do you actually have a subscription nwith the other person? Can you see when they're online or are avatars the only thing that's broken?

Sam: no sub i dont think, theyre not in my contact list. Avatars seem to disappear when ppl offline yes (never it said user offline, while i can see avatar)

It depends, but you need subscription for avatars most of the time, IIRC. It's a privacy thing.

Dunno about "most of the time", but "it depends" is accurate

yah, true

Zash: strange i usually see ur avatar not now though

Could be a phone storage issue too. Maybe conversations doesn't have enough space to save them?

qwestion, qwestion, qwestion: