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Did the company switch to Matrix? XMPP was pretty successful in the 2000s. More than Matrix so far. There were missed opportunities but the main reason it decl
by pseudalopex 6y ago
Did the company switch to Matrix?
XMPP was pretty successful in the 2000s. More than Matrix so far. There were missed opportunities but the main reason it declined was Facebook and Google decided closed was more profitable than open.
Why exclude native clients?
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoI'm not even convinced they decided it was more profitable. The decision probably went something like this: Manager: Our users want this feature Developer: We can't add that because it will cause incompatibility with XMPP clients Manager: This is the 50th feature that has been blocked by XMPP and hardly any of our users use it. Time to cut off support for it
- mszcz 6y agoThat and they probably threw hoards of cash and engineering at the problem.
- xorcist 6y agoIt's probably much simpler than that: "It has come to my attention that clients which we do not control connect to our service. This severely limits the monetization opportunities available to us. Please fix before it is caught in a due diligence."
- upofadown 6y agoXMPP is pretty successful right now. Last I heard there were something like 80k federated servers. Matrix can only dream of that level of sucess...
- Arathorn 6y agowe can see ~60k federated servers on Matrix right now, and presumably there are loads more we can't see.