Thread:TomekO/@comment-397505-20120712165928

Hi Tomasz,

Sadly, I won't be able to make it to Wikimania this year, so I'll miss your presentation on the Wikia chat system. I'm currently looking into building a similar chat system and I'm curious about a couple of decisions you guys made about potential subsystems. Specifically, I'm wondering why you guys decided against a jabber backend or something similar to that. Would you be able to give me (or point me to) a summary of why a jabber server (e.g. ejabberd, OpenFire, etc.) wouldn't have worked as well as the Node.js implementation you built?

Thanks! 