Why does not chat open source protocol "XMPP" popularize?

ByArild

Chat tool "Slack"Increase users year by year because of the relatively fine control of the range of notice by mechanism such as channel and mentions and the high extensibility by abundant Bot and API etc. However Slack has been on IRC since May 15, 2018XMPPWe are announcing that we will close the gateway with, and worry that its interconnectivity will decline.

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It is an open source protocol for chatting with XMPP, which is simply applied to chatting the mechanism of e-mail. For e-mail, people who set up mail servers themselves can also connect to people using Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, but XMPP is designed to allow communication between different service providers as well It is made to be able to chat with anyone with one account. Closing the XMPP gateway by Slack means that you will not be able to access Slack using XMPP.

According to JC Brand who is developing XMPP chat application, "Slack is a business model that records all chats done on Slack and charges access to that log, so users can not draw history from inside It was necessary to do so. "

Various chat tools such as Slack, Facebook messenger, ChatWork and others appear, but there are also financial problems as reason why you can not connect each other with a unified specification such as XMPP. Many viewpoints that XMPP clients can not lock in users and not profit. Still, JC Brand concludes that "I believe in the convenience and power of clients who can freely choose to be mutually operational".