Well I hate to see any features shut down even if the alternative means &quot;unsupported operation&quot;...<p>Opera has been doing that a -lot-, the biggest cases being Unite and soon Link.<p>One thing though:<p>&gt;Meanwhile, our XMPP service is now somewhat behind the cutting edge, and lacks support for many of the recent XMPP extensions that the dedicated XMPP users are now beginning to request.<p>Does that mean if they kept silent the service would just run somewhere in the corner, forgotten? ^^