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title: "What about design?"
date: 2020-07-14T01:32:25+02:00
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summary: |
Who around here hasn't heard about the tragic and inevitable death of XMPP?
It's a pretty common topic in the community and around, often started by
users of XMPP themselves missing this or that feature in one or multiple
specific implementations, or users of alternative solutions. In a way this
is my own version of why XMPP is doomed (or isn't).
tags: [XMPP, Design]
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<p style="font-size: 0.9em"><em>Explicit disclaimer: This viewpoint -- as any
other article on this blog -- is a work in progress, and I'm happy to debate
it and listen to constructive feedback.</em></p>
Who around here hasn't heard about the tragic and inevitable death of XMPP
(eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)? It's a pretty common topic in
the community and around, often started by users of XMPP themselves missing
@ -143,11 +132,7 @@ be a similar solution that's more adapted to your use-case.
For the more technical of us who understand the protocol and/or can deal with
less unified designs, it may be ok to continue using our current applications
and work around these issues ourselves. For the mass audiences I believe this
is not an option. You may take this with a pinch of salt as it is as a
developer that I am saying this to you.
I guess the only thing left to figure out now is [network
effect][network-effect]…
is not an option.
[Conversations]: https://conversations.im
[Dino]: https://dino.im
@ -157,7 +142,6 @@ effect][network-effect]…
[Snikket]: https://snikket.org
[snikket-intro]: https://blog.prosody.im/introducing-snikket/
[snikket-explanation]: https://www.reddit.com/r/xmpp/comments/f0el07/can_someone_explain_to_me_whats_the_point_of/fgto5h0/
[network-effect]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
# So why (not) XMPP?
@ -171,5 +155,3 @@ I want decentralization and standardization to prevent users from being locked
in closed -- often also proprietary -- silos such as WhatsApp, Hangouts,
Slack, MS Teams, or even Signal. And I want extensibility to prevent being
stuck in the past and adapt to the people's needs.
As a developer if I get to use XMPP, great, otherwise I'll learn.