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The advantage of slack over jabber is not only that the client doesn't suck (it's just electron) but that the server logs and creates a continuous experience fo
by seqastian 10y ago
The advantage of slack over jabber is not only that the client doesn't suck (it's just electron) but that the server logs and creates a continuous experience for the user no matter if hes on mobile, in a browser or both.
- Fnoord 10y agoDiscord also has this advantage.
- kuschku 10y agoThe same can be provided by IRC with Quassel or IRCCloud, though.
- kalleboo 10y agoThere's an XEP for the server to keep a message archive and provide the same experience. http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0136.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0136.html What servers, and what clients implement it though? No idea...
- SamWhited 10y agoMost things use Message Archive Management these days: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html It's still experimental, but it should replace message archiving "soon" once a few final kinks have been worked out (that being said, most servers and clients implement it already and in my mind it's ready for production).
- bigbugbag 10y agoIt can be argued that there's no advantage of slack over anything because it is cloud based[1], is not fully cross-platform (no linux client), is proprietary closed source centralized service, and so on. [1]: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/slack-admits-hacked-enables-2-factor-authentication/ http://www.wired.com/2015/03/slack-admits-hacked-enables-2-f...