Decentralization for the web

Posted Aug 11, 2015 18:15 UTC (Tue) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
In reply to: Decentralization for the web by Cyberax
Parent article: Decentralization for the web

> There's another reason: XMPP is a protocol designed by drunk monkeys.

Saying "XMPP isn't a well designed protocol" would had been enough to express your opinion. There is no need to insult the people behind the protocol.

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Decentralization for the web

Posted Aug 11, 2015 18:19 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

> Saying "XMPP isn't a well designed protocol" would had been enough to express your opinion.
Not unless you were involved in a rollout of complicated XMPP-based infrastructure.

Decentralization for the web

Posted Aug 11, 2015 20:24 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

To borrow an expression, XMPP is the worst option, except for all the others.

More seriously, what alternatives are there? SIP/SIMPLE, which make XMPP look downright sane in comparison?

Decentralization for the web

Posted Aug 12, 2015 0:31 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_%28communication_pro... is quite nice.

I think its very later arrival was caused by the fact that XMPP is just barely adequate for 1-to-1 messages and the whole industry has stagnated as a result.