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Multiprotocol clients are a dead end. For a developers, it's a never-ending catch-up game against hostile adversary (original service is never happy with being
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
Multiprotocol clients are a dead end. For a developers, it's a never-ending catch-up game against hostile adversary (original service is never happy with being used via third-party clients)
- adrianN 6y agoAs a developer I understand the problem, but as a user I just want to talk to all my friends without installing half a dozen different applications.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoThen use XMPP and ask all your friends to use XMPP. The only way to really fulfil your wish is switching to federated messengers.
- zamfi 6y agoThat’s what they did! > I'm now back to using email. /s
- thesuitonym 6y agoI think most people would have better luck getting their friends on board with Matrix. Personally, I like XMPP more, but so far I've not found a client that gets as close to the discord experience as nearly all Matrix clients get.
- MisterTea 6y agoThis is why I like the idea of plan 9 and file servers which provide a standard system wide interface to a thing such as a chat protocol. There is/was (cat and mouse) a discord file server which allows you to use any text handling interface such as a shell window or text editor as a chat client. There is also an IRC file server which does the same and acts as a bouncer giving you a persistent connection. So you can have a single acme window open writing code, chatting on irc and discord while checking email and composing an email. It's all text so treat is as such. Wild stuff.
- throw0101a 6y agoWell, it was mostly about the underlying library, e.g., libpurple: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)