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0 pointsleonroy10y ago0 comments

Developer interest is on the wane in pretty much every XMPP project out there. That's the main issue.

XMPP is very much alive in large businesses, especially for system to system interop, but as far as client to server goes I don't see a compelling XMPP client - where's voice, video, chat archiving for example? Compare any XMPP client to Skype for instance and they're not even remotely close.

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pyre10y ago· 2 in thread

> chat archiving for example

This requires a central server though. This is more a function of the service providing XMPP to you than the client. If you want the functionality on the client, it presumably requires some sort of interop between client and server that I'm not sure it part of the XMPP spec.

Qwertious10y ago

Sounds like XMPP isn't the solution then, only {???,XMPP} is.

pyre10y ago

Well, extending the spec could be the solution too. What I was trying to convey was more that there will be a lack of such clients until there is either an agreed-upon extension to the standard, or a popular enough fork of the standard. (at least as far as XMPP is concerned)

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