[Psi-devel] Re: PyMSNt integration

[Maciek Niedzielski]

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Trejkaz wrote:
> Quoting Norman Rasmussen <normanr at gmail.com>:
> 
>> It's a great pity - I love seeing what other clients (and versions)
>> people are using, but the iq storm has become too much, so I've had to
>> turn off the iq:version requests :-(
> 
> 
> Yeah, it would be good if the version is another thing which is only
> fetched
> once you start hovering over the person you're interested in.

I'd say that this is already too late for sending iq:version request.
Why? Because then I'd have either wait for a long time before getting
the popup or I'd have to hover over the contact twice (first would send
the request but show a popup without the info, second would contain the
information that just arrived)

> I wonder if that's a feature request waiting to happen... I've started
> to notice
> the karma blowout on login so much lately that I actually culled people
> from my
> roster to reduce the impact.

How about fetching the information slower? Don't sent 200 iq requests at
once, but send them with small delays between the requests. This way it
would took a bit longer to gather information about all contacts, but it
wouldn't create big transfer in a small amount of time.

BTW: We could keep vcard information almost up-to-date in a similar way.
For example, once per hour psi would fetch one vcard, every time a
getting vcard for a next contact. After some time, it would fetch first
contact's vcard again, etc. Of course we'd have to remember last fetched
vcard somewhere in config file not to start with the first contact every
time it's restarted.

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Maciek
 xmpp:machekku at chrome.pl
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