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Emojis and reacts are the only extensions that can cause people to have a meaningfully different view. It's part of why it took so long to ratify replies, and reacts still are not ratified.

We're also discussing ways for servers to provide a fallback to clients which don't support them.

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> We're also discussing ways for servers to provide a fallback to clients which don't support them.

Uh. I feel like this should be something that's done before it's ratified. What if you find out that there is no satisfactory way?

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I visited the site to see what the extensions are and at first i thought that there might be a few of them but it doesn't look that bad.

Then i noticed the horizontal scrollbar :-P

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Wow that is hilarious. This kind of fragmentation pretty much guarantees failure. I'm pretty sure it's what killed Thrift. See their similar "don't use this" table:

https://thrift.apache.org/docs/Languages.html

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This is one of the things that killed xmpp (too many XEPs, experience was severely fragmented).
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