[JDEV] Best way to drive Jabber adoption?

[David 'TheRaven' Chisnall]

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.  I meant that rather than stating a 
single client was 'official' I meant that there should be a 'will be 
easy to use for MSNM users' and a 'will be easy to use for ICQ users' 
etc. star availible on the list of client features (Which, by the way 
/really/ needs updating so that some of the stars are actually relevant)

Bart van Bragt wrote:

>> 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
>
>
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