Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
by smoyer on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:27AM
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I'm still using XMPP to connect to GChat ... I use it every workday (via Pidgin).
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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
by forand on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:53AM
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Google stopped supporting XMPP in the sense that they stopped trying to change XMPP to fit their needs. They also started killing off support for arbitrary XMPP servers, e.g. you cannot run your own and expect it to work with Google Chat. (This was the most up to date link I could find.)[https://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-goog...]
Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
by zanny on Sunday May 29, 2016 @12:09PM
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You can still somewhat use it, but it does not work well. Groupchats do not work at all anymore, and there is no message synchronization over it so any Hangouts client will populate messages an XMPP client never sees, and you cannot request chat history from the remote.
It is definitely not a high quality XMPP experience. If you want to use XMPP, you should probably be using duckduckgo's XMPP offering.