Re: Matrix as a replacement for Telepathy

[Tomasz Torcz <tomek pipebreaker pl>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 03:19:34PM +0300, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> While in many respects I like a lot some of the ideas behind Telepahy, and for
> example the seamless integration of third-party IM providers in the N900/N9
> was outstanding, there is one major drawback: Making all CMs fit into the
> common set of features of all the supported ends up providing a suboptimal
> user experience (sometimes vastly inferior). This is one of the reasons why
> Empathy was always very mediocre at supporting XMPP and I for many things I
> ended up finding myself using Gajim when I was an avid XMPP user.
>
> On the other hand, by adopting Matrix we have the chance of providing an
> exceptional native UX at a potentially much smaller development cost by
> focusing on a single protocol [1] — and Matrix itself connecting to
> third-party services, instead of trying to solve the fragmentation in the
> client-side with subpar solutions.


  That's kinda ironic, as XMPP was Matrix of its time.  There was connectivity
to other (proprietary) IM networks through server-side “transports”. Client implementing
XMPP only was able to chat with ICQ, GG, MSN, IRC and others – via transports.

  It didn't save XMPP, why would this design results in different fate with Matrix?

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