[JDEV] Best way to drive Jabber adoption?

[Bart van Bragt]

> While choosing an 'official' client would be counter to the Jabber 
> philosophy, it would be a good idea to recommend a client with a similar 
> UI to each of the legacy IM systems.  For example, JAJC closely mimics 
> the ICQ UI, and so would be a good place to point former ICQ users.
 From a users point of view this seems to be a good idea.. But....

- It's really very much against the Jabber philosophy :D
- If you give a user a client that looks almost the same then they 
expect the same.. They expect to see realtime chats from ICQ, the expect 
the same options, the same away statuses, same menus, etc, etc. Jabber 
!= ICQ so IMO we should pretend to be 'the other systems' :D
- There are multiple clients that resemble a particular legacy IM 
system, which one should we choose?
- IMO there are much more important aspects in an IM client than 
resemblance with another program. Stability, feature-richness, 
completeness, userfriendliness, etc.

IMO it would be best to have an up to date list with clients that 
include user reviews (that people can make/give on the site), votes from 
users and download counts. IMO that should be more than enough info for 
prospect users to make the right choice :D At least to get them started.

Cheers,

Bart