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- hellekin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1An interesting take on how to expand the popularity of XMPP by not using multi-protocol clients, but instead pushing server-side transports.
- AJxn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have had such bad experience with Gaim, that I switched over to a XMPP only client. Never regreted it, as it exists Transports to other networks.
- sondr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Well, the idea is to have minimal transports that only can do basic messaging and presence. So, the advanced features can be left out.
That webpage seems interesting, can you submit the items that are valid for Coccinella to the new bug tracker? ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/coccinella/ ) The Service Discovery one is not relevant for Coccinella IMO ;-) - spike411, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Really, I think that for the time being, multiprotocol clients are much better choice for most users and I will keep recommending them. Although if anyone beside jadestorm (Daniel Henniger) starts to actively develop any protocol transports, I'll be very happy, even though I don't need them, because I use XMPP exclusively.
I think that it would be interesting to start a new generation of transports based on libpurple. That way, everyone wins. Both multiprotocol clients & transports get new features, new contributors, new publicity.
But more importantly, I think that we need to make XMPP clients (be it XMPP-only or multiprotocol ones) not suck (http://www.jabber.cz/wiki/Uživatel:Spike411/A_Client_for_Aunt_Tillie), expose XMPP features and strengths etc.
Current (free/open-source) XMPP clients have horrible interfaces, don't leverage OSes features, protocol's features etc. - spike411, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Personally, I advise people to use multiprotocol clients instead of gateways/transports. In ideal world, people would use XMPP for IM exclusively. :)
Gateways just give Jabber/XMPP bad name, because when e.g. ICQ transport fails, users say "Jabber sucks". They don't realize it's the transport/closed network which sucks. They don't care.
Also, the transports are quite demanding, hardware resources-wise. - sondr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0That's why there is a wishlist regarding transports in the article...
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