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What I truly miss is the short era, when it looked like Jabber is going to win the chat world. At least here in Europe, ICQ was on its way out. Both Google and

What I truly miss is the short era, when it looked like Jabber is going to win the chat world. At least here in Europe, ICQ was on its way out. Both Google and Facebook had interoperable XMPP servers. It ended very shortly after that, but it was good for the year or two while it lasted.

tomschwiha 1y ago
For me it was xfire/icq => msn/skype => teamspeak 2/3 (short mumble) => discord
WorldMaker 1y ago
Since Champions Online, Cryptic Studio's game chat server used to be Jabber compatible, too. I don't know if it still is, I haven't had a Jabber client running in a while. It might still be. There was something really cool about getting MMO Guild chat (or Fleet chat in my case as a big Star Trek Online player at the time) in your normal IM client. That was also about when we discovered the server would let you create channels that would be global across all the games (and any IM clients). I still tend to refer to Champions Online and (Cryptic's) NeverWinter Online as "Holodeck Adventures" for that reason, because I'd commonly play those in the days of my very active STO Fleet until people started chatting about STO in the global fleet chat.
tracker1 1y ago
I was just talking about this the other day... it was nearly a panacea of interconnected, interoperable messengers. My memory shortened it to a few months, but I remember it pretty well. The protocol sucked, but it did work. I really miss the group chats on Yahoo that included voice. X spaces is close-ish, and I know that discord and others have similar features... just feels a lot less connected.
- xnx 1y ago
  > panacea of interconnected, interoperable messengers It's a miracle we still have this with email.
  - tracker1 1y ago
    The trouble with email is there's so much spam, spam and bulk email it's almost useless as a practical communication tool. My legit email often gets buried and neglected for days.
singpolyma3 1y ago
Facebook never had an interoperable server. They operated a limited functionality gateway to allow using your own client, but it never worked well and never federated.

tomschwiha 1y ago

For me it was xfire/icq => msn/skype => teamspeak 2/3 (short mumble) => discord

WorldMaker 1y ago

Since Champions Online, Cryptic Studio's game chat server used to be Jabber compatible, too. I don't know if it still is, I haven't had a Jabber client running in a while. It might still be. There was something really cool about getting MMO Guild chat (or Fleet chat in my case as a big Star Trek Online player at the time) in your normal IM client. That was also about when we discovered the server would let you create channels that would be global across all the games (and any IM clients). I still tend to refer to Champions Online and (Cryptic's) NeverWinter Online as "Holodeck Adventures" for that reason, because I'd commonly play those in the days of my very active STO Fleet until people started chatting about STO in the global fleet chat.

tracker1 1y ago

I was just talking about this the other day... it was nearly a panacea of interconnected, interoperable messengers. My memory shortened it to a few months, but I remember it pretty well. The protocol sucked, but it did work. I really miss the group chats on Yahoo that included voice. X spaces is close-ish, and I know that discord and others have similar features... just feels a lot less connected.

xnx 1y ago
> panacea of interconnected, interoperable messengers It's a miracle we still have this with email.
- tracker1 1y ago
  The trouble with email is there's so much spam, spam and bulk email it's almost useless as a practical communication tool. My legit email often gets buried and neglected for days.

singpolyma3 1y ago

Facebook never had an interoperable server. They operated a limited functionality gateway to allow using your own client, but it never worked well and never federated.