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I find it weird to say someone is "shoehorning a chat room" onto a protocol that was designed for one-to-many communication. If anything, we've shoehorned a not
by etchalon 5y ago
I find it weird to say someone is "shoehorning a chat room" onto a protocol that was designed for one-to-many communication. If anything, we've shoehorned a notification system onto a chatroom.
- em-bee 5y agothat particular example is a matter of UI/UX. the protocol itself is not the problem, but the client interface is. deltachat shows that it is very well possible to do an excellent chat over smtp. it also shows that seamless sender authentication is possible, and we can extrapolate that a forum with voting and spam removal can be done over smtp too.