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I don't think xmpp failed.

Cisco has products based on it, and there is a wealth of clients using it at my workplace. Many of our other partners use it.

I see it as very complementary to IRC



>I see it as very complementary to IRC

That sounds like a failure of XMPP. There is no reason for someone to need two message platforms other than userbases being split. If you actually wanted both for functionality purposes, it shows both of them are lacking.




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