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I just went for prosody, though after a few months ejabberd looks nice as well, with built-in turnserver and irc transport. In Prosody, those are external, coturn and biboumi.

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Yeah, built-in TURN/etc. in Prosody is unlikely to happen. We believe in modularity, smaller footprint, separation of concerns and the "do one thing" philosophy. Coturn is a decent battle-tested TURN server and works just fine :)

Rather than trying to reimplement stuff that other projects have done quite nicely, we're focusing on trying to grow the community, network and ecosystem with projects like easy onboarding[1] and Snikket[2].

[1]: https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/ [2]: https://snikket.org/

I like the modularity of prosody; the choice is similar to postfix vs exim. I merely wanted to point it out that ejabberd is a more full fledged solution out of the box.

This is indeed something of an issue, the duality of Prosody. Should it be a complete solution or a platform for you to build on? Being one when people expect the other leads to disappointed users, and being both is a lot of work for the small dev team. Hopefully Snikket will improve this by attracting those who want the complete solution.

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