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Out of curiosity, what were XMPP's alternatives at the time?
by boramalper 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what were XMPP's alternatives at the time?
- ahofmann 2y agoIRC, nothing else. All other protocols like ICQ, etc. where proprietary.
- lmm 2y agoThe open-source ones? I don't even remember nowadays, because they got squished under the XMPP juggernaut. I think there was one that was based off of Gadu-Gadu's protocol (may even have been basically the same protocol with just the servers switched out). But whenever someone tried to drum up support for a new open-source messenger it was always "Why not just use XMPP? It's the standard, and it's extensible, so I'm sure it can accommodate whatever features you were thinking of".