>still has a Board Of course it does. A different one. >"Flag days" in a decentralized network have to be used with caution. Yet sometimes they are necessary

>still has a Board Of course it does. A different one. >"Flag days" in a decentralized network have to be used with caution. Yet sometimes they are necessary, even if they annoy people. Core issues need to be fixed. >As for acks, those were first defined in 2004, and have generally been implemented since the beginning in clients that need it I am not talking about read receipts or the like. I am talking about TCP connections assumed reliable. Protocol's messages sent, and assumed received. Not clients, but more seriously server to server. This is why zombie presences were widespread. >I can think of a number of reasons that XMPP is often overlooked when it comes to modern IM There really is but one. It was infamous for being seriously unreliable, and as people moved to actually reliable IM systems (majorly proprietary), they never looked back.