azron

Hahaha. Seriously? No one had to promote Gmail heavily to bootstrap it, everyone and their grandma wanted a free unlimited email account. It is kind of ridiculous to lump xmpp into that as a selling point at all.

Gtalk had every Gmail user at the time. There is no way that didn’t dwarf any users of xmpp.

People seem to be confusing Google effectively just defederating with XMPP and taking their users elsewhere with them somehow usurping the offering. Their apathy with respect to embracing xmpp and not extending it for reasons I recall being too much work for them and then moving to completely different protocol (hangouts) is not the same as EEE. It is taking your users and going home. It isn’t like XMPP was this giant success that Google then used to steal users from it.

Big thank you to all the hard work and the neck break development pace lately!!