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XMPP is routinely used on HF radio and SATCOM networks field-deployed by militaries. It's deployed with channel compression (so the links themselves are compressed), but it routine…

There's an awful lot of "why not?" here. Remember, this is an Experimental XEP. The XMPP Council saw no reason to actively block it, but that doesn't mean we're all mad keen that e…

Nice write-up of it, though I disagree that you can (or should) "recover" from a database breach in that way. If you detect a database breach, it's likely considerably after the ev…

I'd really appreciate more detail, here.

And XMPP has always tried to be the email of IM. Similar model, address format, and so on. A sea of independent, autonomous domains openly connecting to each other.

Agreed, which is why XMPP does this.

Sure it is. https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0365.html

I don't buy this. XMPP uses no more than any other IM system, and much less than most. The military use it over HF links in theatre, for heaven's sake - this is not what you'd choo…

1) XML really isn't that bad. Honestly. It can be (and is) parsed fast, without any schemas at all. The only thing you need to define about your namespace is the URI you're using. …

Matrix will hit exactly the same problem in a few years. The solution is certainly not to restart with a clean slate every few years and fucks to you if you wanted compatibility. T…

Oh, okay - in that case I slouch corrected.

A device-global push protocol isn't entirely useless, since the device OS can wake all the clients at once if it needs to, synchronizing network activity. But I agree it's a signif…

So either XMPP is bad because it hasn't changed for years and is therefore old, or else XMPP is bad because there's new replacements for stuff that didn't work so well. Honestly, t…

So either XMPP is bad because it hasn't changed for years and is therefore old, or else XMPP is bad because there's new replacements for stuff that didn't work so well. Honestly, t…

What? Openfire has had XEP-0136 for literally years. I think a little over a decade, actually. It's only recently implemented XEP-0313.

Also a later version at http://www.stateslab.org/HowToWriteUnmaintainableCode-Green0... which includes that crazy offbeat language, JavaScript (which was, amusingly, my contributio…

Actually a mixture. Some shortcomings have vanished because while they're problems, they're solved problems. And adoption etc, too. I'd note that I was never against XMPP, though; …

The Holleriths (later IBM Tabulators) were also used extensively in Bletchley Park and the Heliopolis station as part of the technique for cracking Italian Air codes - explaining w…

Worth noting that two of the people fairly heavily quoted on the shortcomings of XMPP both serve on the XMPP technical Council at the moment. (One of them is me, the other is Phili…

Thanks for picking up on the important content there. ;-) If you want to be pedantic, Merlin - assuming he existed in the most likely timeframe - probably was aware of Angleland to…

Really? The old Google Talk service used to do this, but I didn't think ejabberd did. There's a bunch of non-IM use-cases which need presence-less messaging.

You might want to read it. :-) The problem has mostly been that nobody's come up with a better JSON representation than one in a April 1st XEP (and they have been proposed - as ral…

You'll be glad that someone got the IMAP reference... (Unless you're as niche as I, and were referring to ACAP).

> I don't know how accurate Android's power estimates are, but I consistently have people telling me that they are switching back to proprietary messengers because every XMPP clien…

I use Gajim on Linux and Conversations on Android, but the technology you're looking for is "XEP-0280: Message Carbons".