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I think you missed the thrust of my argument which is that XMPP sucks from a _user_ perspective. A non-technical user perspective which is 90% of the users in
by mynameislegion 10y ago
I think you missed the thrust of my argument which is that XMPP sucks from a _user_ perspective. A non-technical user perspective which is 90% of the users in the real world.
> False. XMPP has excellent feature negotiation capabilities.
User don't care what the protocol can do. "How come persistent group chat isn't working? Ah, I'll just use WhatsApp"
> Feature negotiation and graceful fallback, is it really that hard?
This is dependent on the client. Does your client support that? Who knows? Users don't care about any of this.
> Incentives, yes. In the (core) protocol? No.
There's no greater incentive for public server providers than the danger of having their user base get isolated from the rest of the network. That can be done through the protocol and is the only incentive that will actually _accomplish_ anything.