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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by sp332 on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @09:27PM (#5716299)
There was no good replacement for Reader two years ago. There are plenty of federated XMPP servers around now.
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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by subway on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @11:38PM (#5716766)
Plenty of federated XMPP servers, true, but unlike Reader, XMPP requires other users on federated servers to be useful. Since the Reader brouhaha I'd been considering moving away from GApps back to hosting my own mail and xmpp. Now Google has made the XMPP side of that worthless, 87% of my IM contacts use G(Mail|Talk), and will switch to Hangouts.
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