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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by lallysingh on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:36PM (#16540627)
Extension availability/usage will cluster around the tent-pole implementations.

A really popular mobile Jabber client will suddenly have the extensions it supports become popular with everyone else. Conversations looks nice.

As for why some set of extensions hasn't been brought up to modernity, that answer's simple: nobody cares about xmpp enough. Maybe just some users, but fuck those guys, they don't build anything.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by znpy on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:20PM (#16540913)
>> A really popular mobile Jabber client will

> Will

Man, xmpp has been out for twenty years now.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by e12e on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:55AM (#16542821)
Irony here is that WhatsApp, Google and Facebook all had xmpp working (in their own silos) for mobile. WhatsApp still do.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by bastawhiz on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:10PM (#16545776)
> A really popular mobile Jabber client will suddenly have the extensions it supports become popular with everyone else

Until you have two popular apps that implement two different extensions that accomplish the same thing. Now everyone is stuck implementing two, three, four extensions to display the same content. God forbid there's a new version of an extension that's backwards incompatible.

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