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If you value your privacy when messaging or chatting with friends, Jappix.org is one of many solutions for you. It is a social platform that connects its users together through XMPP(Jabber) protocol. You can use a Jappix with other XMPP software like Pidgin.

Jappix is open source meaning that users can download the code and modify it. It allows users to host their data on their computer or any other trusted server. You can access to your data with any XMPP client with your Jappix ID. Your data can be downloaded in standard format that can be used on the go.

Jappix features a desktop, a mobile, and a mini version. With Jappix Desktop, all you have to do is download the software and login using your ID.

With Jappix Mobile, all you have to do is connect to your Jappix node via your mobile web browser.

Jappix Mini allows you to put an html code on your webpage so that people may contact you when you are unavailable.

Jappix is managed by two French developers, Valerian Saliou and Julien Barrier.

I contacted Valérian Saliou, the man that had the idea to create Jappix, and I asked him a few questions about Jappix. Here is what he had to say:

> How did the jappix.org name come to be?

Jappix.org is just the non-profit website for the Jappix project (we also have jappix.com, jappix.net and jappix.pro). So I’ll answer about the Jappix name (not “jappix.org”). Jappix comes from Jabber, which is the legacy name for XMPP (Jabber has been renamed to XMPP a few years ago) - on the top of which we added the “pix” suffix, thus meaning the importance of design and client look to us.

> What can current (and future) jappix.org users expect from the app in the future?

Current users expect the freedom of having an access to their XMPP account wherever they are, without the need to setup a native XMPP desktop client. Jappix, being web-based, is accessible on any compatible Web browser and provide them the most advanced chat features possible (as Gajim does in the native clients world), groupchat, privacy controls, message archiving, file sharing and basic social networking.

In the future, users can expect Jappix to support both OTR (Off-The-Record, to encrypt their chats end-to-end, making the 2 servers unaware of what’s being exchanged) and Jingle (audio/video chat, 1-to-1, using peer-to-peer encrypted media streams).

> What made you develop jappix.org?

Simply the lack of a quality and usable XMPP Web-client. There was JSJaC and iJab but those clients were mostly experiments or proof-of-concept. I envisioned Jappix to be fully usable by “real people”.

> How do you feel about peoples online privacy?

People maybe don’t feel concerned enough, but since PRISM lately, some of them are getting interested in protecting their online privacy (and I noticed that feeling/behavior looking at our increasing number of active Jappix.com XMPP service users).

Here is the main site where you can get started with Jappix.

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