> People that moved to Hangouts aren't available on GTalk (the xmpp part). I run my own XMPP server, people that have ancient Android 2.x mobiles and don't buy into the G+ nonsense can talk to me. People with more modern systems/that 'upgraded' to Hangout cannot.
True, but this is "only" a client problem. What is first and foremost important is the support server-side.
This ugly situation is just like if everyone suddenly decided en-masse to stop using their XMPP client of choice.
This is partly "waking up to reality" for the XMPP community, partly a huge tragedy for the lack of diversity in how people (used to) communicate over XMPP
...but none of these thing would impede Jaconda's users to receive notifications on their desktop or their mobile.
(If anything, I'd consider developers (Jaconda's users) more likely to have an actual XMPP client, rather than strictly relying only on what Google provides by default)
They just (~now~) sent out messages to GTalk users, telling them that Gtalk-the-desktop-app support will be terminated on the 16th of February, like .. in a couple of days from now.
For me Google's xmpp support is nonexistent, I understand Jaconda's attitude.
True, but this is "only" a client problem. What is first and foremost important is the support server-side.
This ugly situation is just like if everyone suddenly decided en-masse to stop using their XMPP client of choice.
This is partly "waking up to reality" for the XMPP community, partly a huge tragedy for the lack of diversity in how people (used to) communicate over XMPP
...but none of these thing would impede Jaconda's users to receive notifications on their desktop or their mobile.
(If anything, I'd consider developers (Jaconda's users) more likely to have an actual XMPP client, rather than strictly relying only on what Google provides by default)