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0 pointsMattJ1004y ago0 comments

Can that predict the future? ;)

I feel it's right that a protocol doesn't need to be in the general consciousness. See the even worse Google trend for SMTP, for example, despite email still being considered a growing network.

I wrote a bit about protocols being for developers and not users at https://snikket.org/blog/products-vs-protocols/

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kitkat_new4y ago

No, it can't, but it is a good indicator.

Why didn't you look up Email instead of SMTP? It's not like you want to measure XMPP based on a XEP.

Protocols might not be for (end)users, but the underlying concept is - depending on what you want to build: A product or an open standard.

The protocol is important to users in the sense of devs.

An open standard requires users and devs.

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