-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > And for those advocating some sort of "Official" client, I would have to > strongly disagree. All that is going to do is create bad feeling among > the other client developers, and we will end up with more dead client > projects. What we need is an end user friendly site that reviews and > rates clients, so that people can make an informed choice, and client > developers can see how their software rates compared to the competition. > (Yes, like the Jabbercentral of old)
I understand the position, but I disagree. Your average general IM user does not want to make an 'informed choice'. They want to click on a link and download a client and have it be a fairly simple and mindless sign-up-and-get-online process. I guarantee you if instead of just downloading AIM from AOL's site, you had to look between reviews and pick from AIM, DeadAIM, Gaim, Trillian, etc... well, there'd probably be less AIM users. And look at MSN...why's it picked up a significant userbase of late? Because now it comes preinstalled on Windows and thus is a no-effort to use. On top of which, I don't believe the push is for a 'single official client'. As I understand it, the push is for a Jabber entry portal -- call it Jabber.net -- which provides for simple sign-up, and a single place for tech support for a given client that obscures most of the complexity of Jabber. This doesn't mean Jabber.org would say 'this is the official client,' just that there would be a project to define a useful 'general IM user' Jabber portal and a client matched to it. That said, I actually agree that the clients listing on Jabber.org is pretty shabby. I do miss Jabbercentral, as it felt more like a community portal than Jabber.org does. I just happen to believe that a nice set of client reviews, screenshots and whatnot serves a different purpose than the proposed 'general IM user' portal/client. :) - -- Rachel Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trillian Messenger - http://www.trillian.cc/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQE+7O9QzxcwfH0qMicRAmodAKCEU5e+C4DNxsW1p+A8KsiIUCyw3wCfSdtA vXDyOrvHNQJmV0YxLZBHqY4= =7LS+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
