For some reason this hadn't occurred to me before, but I guess that basically every messaging and chat platform nowadays is just a HTTP or WebSocket API? Instead of a custom protocol?
@joepie91 add WebRTC to the list, and i think the most important reason is that the web is just the main way of making apps now. desktop apps are web browsers, too, just with a preloaded app and extra APIs available. and if you need to make APIs work for the web, why bother maintaining multiple?
@lnl Yep, that's pretty much how I looped around to "huh. I guess custom protocols are dead" - the fact that everything seems to have a web-based version now
@joepie91 @lnl Yeah that makes sense.