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I need instant messaging for two thing, communication with specific group of people ($COUNT <= 10) and for controlling bot network (nothing illegal). I want something self-hosted for this. I know two protocols, IRC and XMPP. I'm having hard time deciding what to use. Most comparissons talk either about what mess XMPP protocol is (don't really care) or how IRC scales better (not really issue with 10 people and few bots).

Since IRC is much simpler, I'm at the moment leaning its way. Is there any objective reason to use XMPP for my purpose? Does it have anything I would miss in IRC?

graywolf
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  • Well, I do not know about XMPP but IRC certainly has it's own problems like no real way to deal with multiple charsets and messages getting truncated on receiving clients without the sender knowing about it, and they can even get truncated at different points with different clients / bots. – Teemu Risikko Jan 11 '17 at 06:26
  • hm... that doesn't sound like something I want – graywolf Jan 11 '17 at 10:54

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