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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by kitkat_new on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:53PM (#25850342)
> They took a few different design decisions, but in my opinion, nothing that would justify building a competing solution and splitting the already thin developer community.

I'd argue that the design decisions are key to the success of Matrix. However I do not think that there must be any splitting. Checkout the XMPP Bridge that matrix.org hosts.

> I just feel so depressed, seeing so much work being done on a very important subject, not fulfilling its potential due to missing focus.

As long as there are people like Eric, there is hope :) I think we have more focus than ever before, even within the XMPP community :)

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by pseudalopex on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:15PM (#25850621)
The XMPP bridge means the user communities don't have to be split. The developer communities are.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by upofadown on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:28PM (#25851546)
>Checkout the XMPP Bridge that matrix.org hosts.

Is there a description of how to generate an address on the other network? This sounds awesome. A working bridge gets a Matrix user access to the tens of thousands of federated XMPP servers.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by kitkat_new on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:52PM (#25851837)
Yes, there is: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost/wiki/Address-sy...
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