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> This goes beyond Slack or Discord or chat-app-of-the-month. I can probably name up to 10 chat-networks and products which is existed in the 90s. None remain.
by josteink 8y ago
> This goes beyond Slack or Discord or chat-app-of-the-month.
I can probably name up to 10 chat-networks and products which is existed in the 90s. None remain.
IRC does though. Exactly because it wasn’t a product, but instead a protocol specification.
Whatever rationale Mozilla has for this, it’s going to be proven short sighted.
- gtirloni 8y agoIt depends. If they choose something open like Matrix or XMPP, it could work well in the long-term.
- tazjin 8y agoThe blog post says "We are evaluating products, not protocols". There are no XMPP frontends that can compete with the "shininess" of the modern, proprietary systems like Slack so that's out already. As for Matrix/Riot ... maybe, but I don't think it's likely that they'll go with that.
- throwaway2048 8y agoI like how they came right out and rejected open systems out of hand, hats off mozilla.
- j--r 8y agoBut IRC isn't also shiny and they used it long time...
- Leer10 8y agoI hope they're willing to consider https://www.modular.im/ https://www.modular.im/ then, which would be based off Matrix