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1. Mister M. T. Sack (thatbrickster@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2018 14:17:13 EST Mister M. T. Sack
   On Mumble if you peeps want to join. I've removed Riot from my phone.
   1. Hattie Cat (hattiecat@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2018 14:26:51 EST Hattie Cat

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      @thatbrickster What was wrong with it?
      1. Mister M. T. Sack (thatbrickster@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2018 14:34:39 EST Mister M. T. Sack

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         @hattiecat Battery usage. I'm seeing if XMPP is any better.
         1. Hattie Cat (hattiecat@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2018 17:05:41 EST Hattie Cat

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            @thatbrickster I wonder if it might be due to needing to provide notifications. On mobile you have to either rely on Google or Apple push services, a third-party, roll your own or poll in the background (better if you can keep a long TCP connection open to the server). If you're averse to Google/Apple then in reality polling is the only option. XMPP now has a push extension but it requires server support. That said, I haven't had much of a battery problem with Conversations. Things are worse on iOS where I understand the OS will kill long running background tasks so you can't just keep a TCP connection open to the server in the background. Apple's mail client has to resort to real polling, and the ChatSecure notifications are poor to nonexistent.
            Here's an old read that's a good primer.
            
            I could be spouting bollocks though, so would welcome corrections to my limited understanding.
            
            https://chatsecure.org/blog/fixing-the-xmpp-push-problem/