It was of course always free on F-Droid, but this is welcome news for onboarding less technically inclined people to xmpp.

Very nice. Not to crash a thread but anybody running Monocles (one of many forks)?

i had monocles for a bit but i like cheogram better.

can play chess!

Is that a webxdc app? edit: chess I mean

Monocles uses a lot of generated code these days.

Anyway, I've switched to Cheogram and so far it seems more reliable.

EDIT: And the only reason I use Cheogram in addition to Conversations is because I need to seperate my group chat account from the account with which I talk to friends, so that I do not miss messages. :D

Never bought the app on the Play Store (got it through F-Droid), but support Daniel via Liberapay. Probably the most solid, reliable, no-bullshit messenger app that I have used.

Any privacy concerns?

More power to you man. I can imagine how difficult it must be to give up on a regular income stream.

I find it always strange when people reply as if the person posting an article was the person who wrote it. Any particular reason why you did so?

I don't think Daniel Gultsch actively subscribes to this community, although he does have his own Mastodon instance.

Depends on who you ask. Generally most privacy concerns associated with XMPP can be mitigated by hosting your own server (or using a trusted one).

My bad lol. I read the whole article before commenting. was probably just sleepy