Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

XMPP. Yeah, I know technically it still exists, but having 8 different chat clients installed on my phone is ridiculous.



By chat clients you mean like WhatsApp for example? https://www.quora.com/What-is-WhatsApps-server-architecture


SMS+Messages or SMS+Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Kik, WeChat, Viber, LINE, BBM, Telegram, Signal, Sicher, and I'm sure I'm missing some. Used to just install a multi-protocol chat client and be done with it, but now everything's a fancy service with special clients to sync state across devices and whatever else they do.


> and I'm sure I'm missing some

Skype?


Do people use it for messaging? I know it has it, but it's always seemed secondary to the voice/video.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: