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Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why don't you ask the Matrix team why they decided to re-invent XMPP and add a stupid HTTP API?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Both XMPP and Matrix can be used for real-time messaging, but they are very different unerneath.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they didn't reinvent xmpp, they reinvented Google Wave.

A lot of Matrix.org is inspired by what Wave could have been - although we are running late with threading (but some work is happening currently there). From our perspective, one of the biggest gaps was the lack of bridging in Wave to other existing comms interfaces (eg email) - as well as the quirky UX.

Arathorn on Feb 18, 2018 on HackerNews

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I take it you weren't aware that Google Wave was based on XMPP.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/757722/opensource-subnet-nine-new-apps-that-show-off-the-power-of-google-wave.html

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I did not know that!

Very interesting.