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For me the worst thing was the way it handles multiple devices -- AFAIK when there are few clients with the same priority connected, the server delivers messages completely arbitrarily, usually only to a one of them and based on some crazy criterion like the last connection time; not to mention that the context is always lost. I ended up using SSH client and irssi :(

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My experience has been:

* Google: Delivers incoming messages to whichever client most recently talked; occasionally 'resets' and delivers messages everywhere until a client talks again.

* Facebook: Delivers incoming and outgoing messages to web client; incoming messages only to XMPP clients (i.e. no outgoing message sync); occasionally outgoing XMPP messages are never sent or recorded at Facebook (this seems to happen and then stay a problem forever), resulting in your messages being silently lost.

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