> XMPP is pretty awful for practical communications these days. It can, with enough extensions and clients, do all the things other protocols do, but by and lar

> XMPP is pretty awful for practical communications these days. It can, with enough extensions and clients, do all the things other protocols do, but by and large weird stuff is broken. It is practical if you use modern clients. For example I replaced Hangouts with Conversations.im for all my family members and they are very happy with it.