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Re:COI – Chat Over IMAP by cvwright on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:49PM (#19228973)
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.
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Re:COI – Chat Over IMAP by 5166cc9c39fa61 on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:38PM (#19229347)
> 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."

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Re:COI – Chat Over IMAP by innagadadavida on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:35AM (#19237305)
No offense to the blind, but their rest of us do want funky graphics, emojis and cat gifs.
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Re:COI – Chat Over IMAP by admax88q on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:50AM (#19255948)
Gopher support rich media, it just doesn't double as a client side application platform like the modern web does.
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