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I definitely understand the skepticism. If you search my HN comment history, you'll even find me saying that I'm skeptical that Matrix will achieve widespread s

I definitely understand the skepticism. If you search my HN comment history, you'll even find me saying that I'm skeptical that Matrix will achieve widespread success, too. But I still think the way to overcome that is to keep trying. The main edge that Matrix has over previous systems like Google Wave and XMPP is that it's been designed from the start to be bridged to other systems, rather than trying to fight them for mindshare. This means that Matrix can grow and be useful even if people don't "switch" from their existing systems to Matrix. That aspect of Matrix does make me hopeful and optimistic about its future.

1wd 10y ago
Wasn't that exactly the idea of XMPP as well? (e.g. gateways to ICQ etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Connecting_to_other_protocols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Connecting_to_other_proto...
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Yeah, but XMPP never really did that. It just had the potential. In the same way, yes, you CAN link IRC to Slack and XMPP, but how many people have?
  - cxk 10y ago
    Then me using ICQ and MSN transports with XMPP 10 years ago was just a fantasy and all the transports installable for ejabberd do not exist ? It's all just potential ?