As this list of complains about Movim was published publicly I wanted to give my point of view and answers publicly as well 🙂

can't list friends, (filter) subscriptions to blogs\pods

The search feature gives the contact list and allow search in it, the Subscriptions page is filtered by Pubsub services, there is plans to clarify this in the upcoming months.

can't @tag name in comments. autosuggestion, autocompletion not exist.

Yes this feature doesn't exist, autocompletion works in the Chat by using the <tab> key. There was some discussions on how to handle @ in XMPP clients, and I personally did a hackaton on it some times ago, but for now the implementation is on pause. If you wan't to help on this topic we would be pleased to invite you in the upcoming discussions 😉

no search function for community

Yes, use the Global Search and type the Community name, its the second section in the results, just bellow the contacts. If it doesn't appear its that its not in the cache. There is no centralized database of all the Community on the network for now so the Communities need to be at least visited once to be fully cached and searchable on a Movim instance.

movim api for custom frond-end (alternative UI) web clients? like mastodon alternative fron ends, web clients. not represented.

The Movim API is defined there https://xmpp.org/extensions/.

Movim is a web frontend and client for XMPP, it was never meant to define a new protocol or API on top as it will be heavily redundant a lot of work. If you want to communicate with Movim use directly XMPP, especially through the XEPs listed there https://xmpp.org/software/movim/ .

can't query list of rooms on other servers .

On the contrary of Communities there is a global search feature for Rooms, if you use the + button in the Chat and start typing any keyword it will search on the https://search.jabber.network/ service.

by default all account microblogs are "Private" & therefore unreadable (unless manual mutual subscription performed) .

This is a decision that was made since the beginning, "Privacy First for Blog content". Users allow to open their blogs to everyone and are by default restricted to their friend.

If you want to change this default privacy setting in the upcoming releases you're welcome to discuss it with us 🙂 I'm not against re-discussing this.

option to hide/filter out some one else unwanted post from feed, doesn't exist.

Yes, it was actually added a few weeks ago, just block the person and you'll not see its publications anymore.

no lookup of bloggers.

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the only desktop (nonweb) client that support pubsub seems to be only gajim.

Movim is a Progressive Web App and can therefore be "installed" on Desktop and mobile (using Chrome it works best). But its not a Movim issue if other clients doesn't implement what Movim supports.

on the bright side, hey, videocalls seems working! alongside other multimedia rich spa features & animations.

Thanks 🫶

#movim #xmpp