[petre]

Not at all, prosody and ejabberd both work flawlessly without all of that nonsense. If it's a shitty piece of software maybe, but then why even bother using it in the first place?

[imwillofficial]

“All that nonsense” Are the realities of running any software.

[krageon]

If you don't care about the uptime of your chat service you may as well not have one. Eventually those things will be the same.