I used it back in the day before I could figure out how to use a mail server. I had shell scripts send me messages that way. I thought it was the coolest thing that I could receive instant messages while offline.
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I haven’t so I don’t really relate to the panicking people
Used an internal one at work until the pandemic and the switch to teams
Thank you for posting some sanity.
People keep posting that dumb blog post about Google Talk being an extend, embrace, extinguish play when it's pretty obvious that Google Talk simply dwarved XMPP in terms of users. The lesson everyone here took from that is to not let any corporation near your niche protocol, when the real lesson they should've taken is that user's don't care about protocols and how open or virtuistic they are, they just want an app that's convenient to have a conversation with.
XMPP only lasted as long as it did because Google Talk kept it alive by supporting it, once they dropped it (and literally no one noticed) then XMPP died the death it would've died years earlier had Google not helped limp it along.
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Don’t you need an Xbox for that?
I think that's Xbox Live, XMPP is something else.