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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by ge0rg on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:34PM (#13411883)
There are attempts at creating an XMPP compliance suite[0], but the biggest problem is actually a lack of volunteers / money to improve the clients and servers. Conversations is driven by one full time developer, most other applications are hobby projects.

[0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0375.html

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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by digi_owl on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:47PM (#13411945)
It was a real sad day when Facebook and Google decided that proprietary was the way to go...
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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by ariwilson on Monday January 16, 2017 @02:28PM (#13412268)
The writing was on the wall before that, though. WhatsApp was eating everyone's lunch and Facebook / Google wanted to move faster and own the messaging space.
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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by riquito on Monday January 16, 2017 @06:46PM (#13414080)
WhatsApp didn't exist yet
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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by ariwilson on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:01PM (#13432041)
WhatsApp has existed since 2009, which preceded Google Hangouts by 4 years.
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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by bigbugbag on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:31AM (#13415903)
Afaik facebook was designed to be a closed walled garden from the get go and never offered interoperability despite using xmpp at first.

Google gtalk predates facebook and happened at different times, IIRC the change to a closed chat service was a reaction due to facebook abusing the openness to scrape contacts.

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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by nerdponx on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:51PM (#13413343)
What kinds of skills would a volunteer need to be able to contribute?
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Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? by SamWhited on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:47PM (#13413718)
What skills you have are laregely irrelavant; just find something that annoys you personally about [your favorite client here], dig in, fix it, and send in a patch. Or, if you're not a developer, use whatever skills you have, mock up a way that a UI component could work better and send it in, or write documentation, or simply file bug reports. Everything helps :)
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