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Account based MUC joining
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Normally when joining a MUC groupchat, it is each individual client that
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joins. This means their presence in the group is tied to the session,
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which can be short-lived or unstable, especially in the case of mobile
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clients.
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This has a few problems. For one, for every message to the groupchat, a
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copy is sent to each joined client. This means that at the account
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level, each message would pass by once for each client that is joined,
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making it difficult to archive these messages in the users personal
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archive.
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A potentially better approach would be that the user account itself is
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the entity that joins the groupchat. Since the account is an entity that
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lives in the server itself, and the server tends to be online on a good
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connection most of the time, this may improve the experience and
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simplify some problems.
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This is one of the essential changes in the MIX architecture, which is
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being designed to replace MUC.
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`mod_minimix` is an experiment meant to determine if things can be
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improved without replacing the entire MUC standard. It works by
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pretending to each client that nothing is different and that they are
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joining MUCs directly, but behind the scenes, it arranges it such that
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only the account itself joins each groupchat. Which sessions have joined
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which groups are kept track of. Groupchat messages are then forked to
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those sessions, similar to how normal chat messages work.
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Known issues
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-   You can never leave.
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-   You will never see anyone leave.
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-   Being kicked is not handled.
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Unknown issues
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-   Probably many.
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Compatibility
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Briefly tested with Prosody trunk (as of this writing).