[Standards] Re: Threads and replies in XMPP

Hi, On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 12:57 +0200, Goffi wrote: To clarify on this: XEP-0461 was meant to be used exclusively for replying to a message, not to indicate any thread logic or anything similar. Replies are meant to show in the "main" timeline (not a sub-thread) and two replies to the same message are not meant to have any direct relation with each other. The purpose of XEP-0461 was to clean-up/standardize on something that was done in the wild: Users (and some clients) used "quote reply" to a message, meaning to copy the entire contents of a previous message as a blockquote in a new message and then write below that, indicating this is a reply to that previous message. XEP-0461 allows to do that in a way that is understood properly by clients (allowing to link to the original message or show extra details about the original message). It also makes it possible to extend this functionality to non-textual message (file share). In other words, XEP-0461 is the equivalent of the reply feature you can see in WhatsApp or Telegram and is completely adjacent to threads in the style of Slack, Zulip or Cheogram. Marvin