Modern XMPP project discussion - 2026-04-19

That's uh bizarre

I can understand for a bleeding edge project where things are changing really fast and your documentation looks more like a series of notes that maybe makes sense

Then when things are stable you sit down and actually write the documentation and verify it's correct

There is also a sad reality that people don't read documentation (or don't trust it's up to date) and jump to chat and ask. Might as well just have the documentation in the chat 😂

Here the chat is just for discussion, not for documentation

That's certainly more sane if you ask me

> xmpp has an api? xmpp IS the api, lol I think this is a point that isn't driven home well enough. You can use xmpp to build something that isn't chat related. I remember at a fosdem talk - I think it was the person who does salut-a-toi - was quick to correct the speaker of this point

I think adhoc commands are very underrated. You can use that for whatever you can dream up, from IoT controlling your lights to changing the map on a game server

It's a shame adhoc isn't in more clients because it really is the better solution for the types of things people use chatbots on discord, slack, etc for.