> support clustering (for high-availabilty purposes)
That reminds me of one idea I had back in the day. You see, not everyone has the skill nor time to set up their own server, so clients rely on 3rd party servers. But sometimes these servers either experience intermittent connectivity issues or just die out altogether, which means users now have to set up second account and re-add everyone, while also scattering chat history across multiple accounts. What I'd like to see is some way of linking accounts across multiple servers, so that:
- you don't have to add and authorize multiple accounts
- rosters and chat histories also get synchronizes between the two
A lot of that could probably be hacked around just on the client side, and I don't have good answers to questions like "what happens if I want to unlink two accounts for some reason".
(And going a bit off-topic: I also wish I could use multiple email addresses while registering in other places, because email provides too can fail, close altogether, or even just ban you for no good reason while also having crappy bot-driven support@.)
That reminds me of one idea I had back in the day. You see, not everyone has the skill nor time to set up their own server, so clients rely on 3rd party servers. But sometimes these servers either experience intermittent connectivity issues or just die out altogether, which means users now have to set up second account and re-add everyone, while also scattering chat history across multiple accounts. What I'd like to see is some way of linking accounts across multiple servers, so that:
- message delivery could have transparent fallback (it gets delivered to [email protected] if [email protected] is unavailable)
- you don't have to add and authorize multiple accounts
- rosters and chat histories also get synchronizes between the two
A lot of that could probably be hacked around just on the client side, and I don't have good answers to questions like "what happens if I want to unlink two accounts for some reason".
(And going a bit off-topic: I also wish I could use multiple email addresses while registering in other places, because email provides too can fail, close altogether, or even just ban you for no good reason while also having crappy bot-driven support@.)