<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 December 2015 at 20:53, Peter Saint-Andre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stpeter@stpeter.im" target="_blank">stpeter@stpeter.im</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/8/15 1:07 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:<br>
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Certainly I do have the feeling that as an<br>
end user, obtaining an XMPP account is now very hard, with the effective<br>
closure of end-user services from <a href="http://jabber.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jabber.org</a> <<a href="http://jabber.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://jabber.org</a>> (the<br>
obvious go-to public server) and the dropping of XMPP by Google Talk -<br>
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I'm not sure I'd say "very hard" - there are still plenty of servers listed at <a href="http://xmpp.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">xmpp.net</a>. Could it be easier? Probably. It might be good to have a page about that at the new <a href="http://xmpp.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">xmpp.org</a> website.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>By comparison to ${ARBITRARY_IM_SERVICE}, yes, I think it is very hard. Our on-boarding process is nothing like as easy as the somewhat commonplace "Download app, run app, do some registration dance" - instead it's "Download app, go to some website, go to some other website and try to figure out how to create an account, configure app."</div><div><br></div><div>It was better - for the user - when XEP-0077 was commonplace, since at least a client should ship with a list of servers. Of course, that level of simplicity brought its own problems, but I think we could make that process a lot smoother without compromising security entirely.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave.</div></div></div></div>