Standards need extensibility, but you can't just slap major extensibility framework on top of a small core and then get a blanked claim that competing standards must be implemented as extensions. A good litmus test is how useful is XMPP without extensions today?
> it will
be better for XMPP and Matrix devs to combine their efforts
I don't like that open chat protocols have taken so long to get adoption either, but coercing an organizational structure seems like the best way to keep the status quo.
Imo, good standards have been tried and proven in a "many-degrees-of-freedom manner" before being accepted, such as a major OSS project with thousands of active users, which matrix is doing now. Design by comittee has a terrible track record.
> it will be better for XMPP and Matrix devs to combine their efforts
I don't like that open chat protocols have taken so long to get adoption either, but coercing an organizational structure seems like the best way to keep the status quo.
Imo, good standards have been tried and proven in a "many-degrees-of-freedom manner" before being accepted, such as a major OSS project with thousands of active users, which matrix is doing now. Design by comittee has a terrible track record.