Hello everybody, I'm new here using UT for couple days now and I love it! Anyway I'm missing a decent XMPP client too, a lot. Having one would make my ancient N4 a "brand new" daily driver with a great pleasure. In my point of view - no offense - it would be much more logical to prefer decentralized and completely open source platforms instead of centralized ones, it would fit the overall philosophy much better. Especially these days, when crowds of users are leaving one centralized IM service to stick to another with naive hope that history won't repeat. In between all this XMPP is here for years, still the same and improving, surviving it's successors and - that's so important - self-hostable. I'm not a developer, just enthusiast, but I can imagine, how much work and effort it would take to make such client. Anyway I wanted to share my opinion.
Consider this post as a reflection of a kind and as +1 vote for a decent XMPP client (or a plugin for existing messaging app), the tighter integrated, the better of course.
Cheers!