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Did the author of the article bother to do any research at all? The "popular" messaging service HipChat has been dead since 2018 when Slack acquired it's codeb
by utf_8x 6y ago
Did the author of the article bother to do any research at all?
The "popular" messaging service HipChat has been dead since 2018 when Slack acquired it's codebase and moved it's users to Slack.
WhatsApp no longer runs on Jabber/XMPP. They used to run on modified eJabberd a long time ago but these days they use a combination of Signal and something custom...
- whoknew1122 6y agoThe article is from 2017. Should've been put in the thread title, but yeah...
- utf_8x 6y agoAh, haven't noticed that... In that case the HipChat bit makes more sense although I still wouldn't call it popular... WhatsApp switched to Signal Protocol in 2016 however so that point still stands.