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a3_nm on Aug 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chats are not dead yet

If you dislike existing XMPP clients, you can use bitlbee (which is an IRC-XMPP gateway you can run on your server) and use your favorite IRC client.

darklajid on Aug 4, 2011 [–]

I actually only dislike the MUC presentation most of the time. It always feels bolted on to me.

As I said elsewhere in this thread I'm not really having an issue for myself, but I've yet to find a decent client that I can hand to my peers. That's why I actually like the idea of this project, I guess.

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