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Movim 0.12 – Lovejoy, a responsive web-based cross-platform XMPP client

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39 pointsedhelas12 comments

As another commenter pointed out, the registration process seems broken, but I was able to use an XMPP account that I registered with a different client, and it seems very slick. I may have to run a copy of this for my own XMPP server.

Some things that occur to me as I browse around:

* what possible reason would you have for having a "gender" and "marital status" field? those feel out of place

* The pre-defined places to put Twitter, Yahoo and Skype accounts seem weird, why not allow a list of account names

Thanks for the feedback, the registration has been fixed. Those fields are planned to be removed in the upcoming weeks, they are indeed not relevant anymore.

Expected a fork of a popular and venerable text editor, instead got a web page with broken scrolling and teen-aged, scantily-clad anime girl mascot. It might very well be a fine product, but the packaging leaves something to be desired.

Tried hard to create account on one of the server, everytime I am getting 'unknown error'.

I thought it had something to do with "vim" as part of the name suggests. Nevermind.

Jesus, why on earth does the mascot for this thing have to be an underage anime girl in a short skirt? Already guaranteeing I'm not going to be using your software, let alone suggesting it to anyone.

> why on earth does the mascot for this thing have to be an underage anime girl in a short skirt?

Because the creators are french and french grow up seeing a lot of anime? because your conception of sexism might be different than the french (I assume you're an american)? because different cultures have different morals? I mean there are naked statues of women everywhere in french cities.

Hi, I'm the maintainer of the project, I'm actually taking into account the feedback. The reason we created this mascot was mostly to have different sets of stickers in the project.

I'm personally paying artists to create original Creative Common content and then have exclusive stickers for each Movim releases, if you have a look at the previous versions we already added a little racoon and a marmot (to also support the project ZeMarmot http://film.zemarmot.net/en/ and by extension the funding of The GIMP project). It's also to support content with free license and push forward artists within the project :)

For this set, the idea was also to submit those stickers on other services like Viber or LINE (that is actually the N°1 messaging network in Japan) to actually fund the project and bring people from other countries to it.

I'm really sorry if this is shocking some people and I'll see what I can do. Also, as an admin, you can easily remove (or add) new sets of stickers on your own Movim instance if you want.

Or maybe rschulman was just looking for some web interface to complement corporate XMPP server, in which case appealing to cultural differences (no matter whether it's relevant/valid or not) will make virtually no difference.

(Also, comparing antique statues to anime girls? I'm not sure about that either.)

Maybe you should ask your self why are you thinking about sex while looking at underage girl? Cause otherwise - how does it matter if she is underage or not?

Maybe you should ask your self why are you thinking about sex while looking at underage girl?

Perhaps because that was the intent of the designer? What, you think that ads featuring bikini-clad women holding a Harley-Davidson muffler are because chicks in skimpy clothes really know their motorcycle exhaust systems?

I make no claim to know the mind of the designer, but to immediately write off the possibility is näive, IMO.

> Perhaps because that was the intent of the designer?

It looks like a typical Japanese schoolgirl uniform to me. I'm not American, though.

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