I don't know about others, but I still use it for the same reason I still use XMPP: still works fine and is less annoying than proprietary solutions. As for en

I don't know about others, but I still use it for the same reason I still use XMPP: still works fine and is less annoying than proprietary solutions. As for encryption, I use OMEMO with XMPP for private conversations, but I use IRC for public forum conversations, so TLS is enough for me. Think Hacker News, but in real-time.