The products you mention are all good examples of niche products for techies. If that's what you want, by all means keep XMPP and be happy with it.
Re:COI – Chat Over IMAP
by 5166cc9c39fa61 on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:38PM
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> The products you mention are all good examples of niche products for techies.
The blind person that told me about how much better Gopher was than the modern web for blind people was not a techie, and I don't think it is moral to treat disabilities as just a "niche."
Re:COI – Chat Over IMAP
by innagadadavida on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:35AM
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No offense to the blind, but their rest of us do want funky graphics, emojis and cat gifs.
Gopher support rich media, it just doesn't double as a client side application platform like the modern web does.
> * Wonky unwieldy hypertext systems instead of the WWW
Which ones? Gopher wasn't hypertext, but it is still going and still a good idea. A conversion to Gopher would be a huge usability and accessibility upgrade for many current websites.
> * The Nomad instead of the iPod
iTunes is garbage. iPods sucked until (certain models) had Rockbox ported to them.
> * The Blackberry instead of the iPhone
How about the Nokia n900 instead?
> * GNU Hurd instead of Linux
I'm "stuck" with BSD. Send help?
Ambitious projects are cool and should be encouraged. Being an ignoramus about existing developments (not saying that that is what the people behind Matrix are doing) and getting distracted by anything that claims novelty should not be. Hoare had a great bon mot about this: "Here is a language [Algol 60] so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors."