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Also XMPP is non-performant and verbose - these things matter as far a protocols go.

• fennecfoxen 13y ago
  More importantly, XMPP has problems delivering the text-message-like experience. It's more of a live-chat protocol. If you want to receive messages when you're offline, things rapidly become a mess.
  • ge0rg 13y ago
    fortunately there is improvement in sight: XEP-313 Message Archive Management [0] allows a client to fetch the backlog from its server, at the (privacy) cost of having all your messages stored on the server. [0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html
  • zimpenfish 13y ago
    They shouldn't, though, because pretty much every XMPP server I've seen has user-offline message storage for later delivery eg [1], [2], and the "best practices" have been documented for years, e.g. [3]. Unless you actually mean "receive messages [to your device] when you're offline" and how the hell would that work? [1] https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_offline https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_offline [2] http://www.process-one.net/docs/ejabberd/guide_en.html#htoc48 http://www.process-one.net/docs/ejabberd/guide_en.html#htoc4... [3] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0160.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0160.html