Nice essay, Matthew, thanks! I'll stay with XMPP until they take it from my cold, dead hands.
Matrix successfully competes with XMPP. It even features a more fractured mess with a lower number of clients in a shorter time span!
XMPP would be the best choice ever. But I don't believe in miracles.
I have to agree and disagree. I agree, that XMPP clients are not very good. And horrible on iOS (and MacOSX). I disagree, that Matrix has good clients. Riot is an OK web client, but too slow and too confusing for my…
XMPP is different from Matrix. On Matrix practically everyone is matrix.org. The other public servers I tried are relatively slow and suffer hickups when joining rooms. On XMPP, many people run servers in their…
Where does "order of magnitude" come from? In my experience, XML parsing is about three times slower than JSON and around two or three times the size. For most complex applications, this is not a show-stopper, because…
Nice essay, Matthew, thanks! I'll stay with XMPP until they take it from my cold, dead hands.
Matrix successfully competes with XMPP. It even features a more fractured mess with a lower number of clients in a shorter time span!
XMPP would be the best choice ever. But I don't believe in miracles.
I have to agree and disagree. I agree, that XMPP clients are not very good. And horrible on iOS (and MacOSX). I disagree, that Matrix has good clients. Riot is an OK web client, but too slow and too confusing for my…
XMPP is different from Matrix. On Matrix practically everyone is matrix.org. The other public servers I tried are relatively slow and suffer hickups when joining rooms. On XMPP, many people run servers in their…
Where does "order of magnitude" come from? In my experience, XML parsing is about three times slower than JSON and around two or three times the size. For most complex applications, this is not a show-stopper, because…