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In what way is IRC for example proprietary? Yes, to a certain extent GTalk and facebook chat have taken a little market share from other IM clients (Not sure h
by axod 16y ago
In what way is IRC for example proprietary?
Yes, to a certain extent GTalk and facebook chat have taken a little market share from other IM clients (Not sure how much, maybe 10%?).
But XMPP is nowhere when it comes to group chat.
- BarkMore 16y agoIRC is not proprietary and I did not say that it is. I think it's great that you are using IRC in your project. Overall, there are many more active users of XMPP than there are users of IRC. When I say active users, I mean users who send and receive messages. I am not including users who only have the chat widget open on Gmail.
- axod 16y ago> "Overall, there are many more users of XMPP than there are users of IRC." I'm skeptical. Post some figures if you have them, especially on volume of chat. Idle users mean nothing.
- BarkMore 16y agoEarlier in this thread you estimate that GTalk and Facebook have 10% of the instant messaging market. Does IRC have more users than 10% of the instant messaging market?
- senko 16y agoApples and oranges. IRC is in general used for group-chat with topic channels, while other IM protocols (such as XMPP, ICQ, Skype, MSN, AIM, ...) are primarily 1:1 chats with friend/buddy lists. That said, XMPP MUC (multi-user chat) is terrible, overengineered and less usable than IRC is. (Disclaimer: I hacked on bits and pieces of XMPP client in Telepathy).