Based on our record, Prosody should be more popular than Trillian. It has been mentiond 15 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I can’t believe trillian is still a thing. What a blast from the past. Thanks for that. Source: over 1 year ago
Yeah I think that was a long time ago. These days I think it's just another IM: https://trillian.im/. Source: over 1 year ago
You might look at https://trillian.im but I think corporate changes have harmed them as well. Source: over 1 year ago
Two decades ago I used trillian and mirianda for all the popular messaging protocols, https://trillian.im/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Trillian supports XMPP and seems like it would meet your requirements. Source: almost 3 years ago
There's also the http://prosody.im/ XMPP server that's written in Lua, and it's very successful there. The other major XMPP server implementation is in Erlang and they are equally praised, so that should tell something about Lua's versatility. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Lua on its own right can be fun too! If you are looking for a project to contribute to, there's for instance the Prosody XMPP server that's written in it, and contributes to the betterment of internet by promoting federated protocols. Source: 12 months ago
You can write largish standalone application in Lua and it is not always a poor choice - Prosody [1] first comes to mind. But qualities which make it a good embedded language make it less _attractive_ for other uses. Lua has very simple syntax and small stdlib which allows its implementation to be very small - you can add Lua to your application and not increase its size significantly. But when the size is not a... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios. Source: almost 2 years ago
My choice, because it's the stack I know very well, would be Prosody ( https://prosody.im/ - I'm one of the devs) and a web client such as Converse.js ( https://conversejs.org/ ). XMPP is highly extensible, Prosody is highly modular, which make them a good foundation for building on top of. That said, the right stack is generally the one that matches your requirements, and (if this isn't primarily a learning... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
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