[RadiozRadioz]

We seem to put a large amount of effort into systems to replace XMPP, I wonder if we could instead put that effort into improving XMPP and its surrounding ecosystem.

If IRC were the only option, its inflexibility would warrant a new protocol, but XMPP is in such a good position with how malleable and deliberately extensible it is. Common gripes all have XEPs, hard stuff like E2EE and Jingle have a huge headstart over greenfield projects, we've got standard compatibility featuresets of XEPs to help with fragmentation, there's a well-founded independent governance structure for the project. It just needs investment and focus to push all this stuff over the edge and get implemented/adopted.

It's hard work. It's harder than starting fresh. But a better XMPP is more valuable than the 20th custom chat app re-implementing the same features as the other 19.

I'm not knocking this project in particular, this is a more general comment about the IM ecosystem, spurred by their blog post mentioning XMPP.