[Adium-devl] Focus/What are we doing?

[Ofri Wolfus]

I know I've been out of business lately due to many reasons (I can't  
even reply to email and connect to IRC and GTalk during the week) but  
here are my thoughts.

Adium is currently having a huge market share which we're not using.  
With such a huge base, we can start fixing what we think is wrong  
with the current IM experience, rather than aligning with the big  
companies and the "traditional" IM experience. Therefor, I believe  
our goal should be making the IM experience right and as pleasant as  
possible to the user.
We already tried being revolutionary with ChatKit and other crazy  
ideas which failed, but we can be different. If it's by pushing XMPP  
and making it easy to use, having a SoC project for a breaking  
contact list, a contact list that acts like the Dock, smart groups or  
all the other innovative ideas we had.

Having the features everyone else have is important, but our  
innovation is at least as important as that, if not more.

I know this mail is horribly written (I'm mostly translating my  
thoughts) but I'm sure you'll forgive me :)

Ofri

On 19/10/2007, at 01:07, David Smith wrote:

> 	I'm sure most people here have heard my rants about presence,
> messaging, system integration, etc...
>
> 	I'm not sure Adium is what I've been ranting about. We could go in
> the direction of being a system service + a shiny UI, but I really
> don't think we have the leverage to do that. Apple could push in that
> direction; something like ChatKit might have been able to.
> 	Given that, I think our goal is to continually raise the bar for IM
> applications. If someone builds a compelling people-as-system-service
> framework, we can move to it. The front end is our core competency
> (uh oh business buzzword) anyway. Currently we're getting some scope
> creep. By integrating VV and full group chat support we're redefining
> our idea of IM from the old ICQ concept to "common synchronous low
> latency forms of communication over the internet". I think we can do
> this, but any scope creep beyond that and we're going to be in  
> trouble.
>
> 													David

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