@@ -1190,15 +1190,23 @@ If set to ``true``, then whenever Converse receives a MUC message with an autho
any information (i.e. because that user is currently not in the MUC), then Converse will send out a ``<presence>``
stanza of type ``probe`` in order to request the authors presence data.
Note, although this behavior is described in the `presence business rules of XEP-0045, section 17.3 point 4 <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#bizrules-presence>`_,
few XMPP servers support this.
Prosody has some experimental support in it's contrib branch (hopefully soon to
be merged to trunk).
The point of sending out presence probes is in order to receive
presence-related metadata, such as `XEP-0317 Hats <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0317.html>`_.
.. note::
Although this behavior is described in the `presence business rules of XEP-0045, section 17.3 point 4 <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#bizrules-presence>`_,
few XMPP servers support this.
.. note::
If member lists are fetched via muc_fetch_members, then the occupants created
based on those member lists won't be probed again later (given that the
occupants are already created). Certain metadata like XEP-0317 hats are not
included in the member lists, which means that this metadata will be missing for