Hi Laura and others,
Le vendredi 6 février 2026, 20:39:24 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Matthew
Wild a écrit :
Hi Laura,
On Fri, 6 Feb 2026, 19:09 Laura G., <kx81tdl2t(a)mozmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to propose adding a new processing
hint to XEP-0334 to support
silent/whisper messages - messages that are delivered normally but don't
trigger notifications on the recipient's device.
[SNIP]
I'd have liked it in this XEP because it potentially feeds into server
processing (a server may want to alter the metadata on push notifications,
or perform traffic optimization and hold the message from an inactive
client), and it would help reduce the number of places server developers
need to look for such things.
With my user/dev hat, I think that the logic should be inverted (silent by
default, and flag for important messages), probably with XEP-0224 as mentioned
elsewhere in this thread.
A mechanism with backward compatible feedback would be interesting too: phone
may be silenced during night, but if a roster contact send message/call in the
middle in the night, it may be an emergency, and the device could send a
message like "this phone is currently on silent mode, is your message an
emergency? (y/n)".
With my council hat, we must avoid namespace bump on a such widely adopted
stable XEP. A separated XEP with its own namespace, even if the mecanism is
close, would IMO be more appropriate.
Either way, we should definitely standardize this
feature.
Agree that the used case make total sense.
Regards,
Goffi