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by winter_blue
4290 days ago
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I think your UX and other unique features should be so compelling that customers want to use your system (over than Adium or Pidgin). Think GMail for example. It's got full IMAP and POP3 support, and people who want to use a mail client are free to do so. If they do (and I assume many people do), then Google doesn't get to serve ads to them. But Google still gives you the freedom to choose. And they've succeeded in alluring even the nerdiest of people to their web app. In short, let your users decide. Make your UI so awesome that they want to use it. Having XMPP support will actually draw many customers to your service, since it's something that not all competing services offer. |
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You and others made some very compelling points in regards of XMPP.
We learned a lot from this discussion and I'll soon write a post about the takeaways we got from this HN-Thread at our blog - http://blog.chatgrape.com/.
Thank you for your sophisticated feedback.
-f