• # Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

    Posté par (site web personnel) . En réponse au journal Promotion d'XMPP, message pour nos amis. Évalué à 4. Dernière modification le 21 juin 2016 à 17:59.

    À titre personnel, j'utilise exclusivement XMPP (+OTR avec certains contacts) pour la messagerie instantanée (en entreprise, j'utilise aussi d'autres outils).

    Mais je vous conseille la lecture de ce billet (en Anglais) de ceux qui font TextSecure/Signal: https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

    Like any federated protocol, extensions don't mean much unless everyone applies them, and that's an almost impossible task in a truly federated landscape. What we have instead is a complicated morass of XEPs that aren't consistently applied anywhere. The implications of that are severe, because someone's choice to use an XMPP client or server that doesn't support video or some other arbitrary feature doesn't only effect them, it effects everyone who tries to communicate with them. It creates a climate of uncertainty, never knowing whether things will work or not. In the consumer space, fractured client support is often worse than no client support at all, because consistency is incredibly important for creating a compelling user experience.

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