On Wednesday 11 March 2009 18:57:36 Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Well, we have 400,000+ users of the jabber.org IM service. Shutting down > the service seems unworkable. So the questions are:
Right, you wouldn't want to really remove it. Instead: > 1. Do we turn off registration for new users and redirect people elsewhere? Yes. > 2. Do we leave the jabber.org service as basic IM but nothing more? I don't think there's anything wrong with improving the service for the people already using it, but it would be with the understanding that jabber.org is a very generic IM service, only good for testers, geeks, and anyone who already has an account there. It would no longer be a place you'd send your mom. You'd send your mom to Google Talk, or any service competing on that level. Feel free to spearhead such a competing service. I didn't disagree with your vision. In fact, this idea of a collaborative, open, world-wide service sounds incredible, if you can pull it off and maintain five nines. :) I just don't think using the name "Jabber" is wise. A giant service named Jabber, with a client named Jabber (JIM? :)) only adds naming confusion, and may be perceived by competitors as unfair (we want them to use the word "Jabber" as much as possible, and not be afraid of it). I think you'd have just as much success calling the client+service "Andre-IM" (ahn-dream?), which could then be promoted as a Jabber-based Skype killer. This would be fair as well as easier to market. > 3. Do we try to deploy the kinds of services that are needed in order > for people to have a better experience? As far as I can see, those > services are SOCKS5 and TURN relays for file transfer and voice/video. > But we can't deploy just one of those (it would be overloaded) so we > need to deploy them more widely -- perhaps just Europe and North America > to start, but eventually in many locations so that people can use local > relays everywhere. I don't think it can hurt to do this, if the resources are there. -Justin _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
