[jdev] Handling of MUC within Candy

[Stefan Strigler]

On 20.01.2014, at 21:03, Matthew Wild <mwild1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I personally think if you start a message with a room occupant in the
> UI, the protocol should do the same, converse with that occupant in
> that room. If I have a chat open with someone already, I am generally
> unlikely to open a second chat with them in a room we are both in
> (unless I forgot about the first one perhaps). This approach is always
> going to work, it is consistent from the user perspective (sometimes
> JIDs are available, sometimes they are not...), and so on.

One alternative approach could be to

a1) make all rooms be non-anonymous to know the real-jid of each participant 
OR
a2) make sure users can't change their nickname and use the same throughout all rooms
b) have a hidden default room (a lobby) that acts as a central hub sharing information about how's considered online
c) use this lobby for direct messaging

Depending on your environment this approach might make sense or not at all ;)

.Steve