I do use XMRChat, yes. Self-hosted vs centralized is the main difference. XMRChat has some other bells and whistles like adding social links into your profile, displaying active streams on the front page, and searching for other users, but those are kind of ancillary to the main function. Shadowchat doesn't have any of that, it just collects tips and displays messages.
I should note, this version of Shadowchat was created around half a year before XMRChat went live (and its preceding forks were even earlier than that), so at the time there wasn't any other option. Honestly, for most people XMRChat is probably the better, easier option. Shadowchat is better for the niche use-case of "I don't want to trust third parties to run web services for me".
I do use XMRChat, yes. Self-hosted vs centralized is the main difference. XMRChat has some other bells and whistles like adding social links into your profile, displaying active streams on the front page, and searching for other users, but those are kind of ancillary to the main function. Shadowchat doesn't have any of that, it just collects tips and displays messages.
I should note, this version of Shadowchat was created around half a year before XMRChat went live (and its preceding forks were even earlier than that), so at the time there wasn't any other option. Honestly, for most people XMRChat is probably the better, easier option. Shadowchat is better for the niche use-case of "I don't want to trust third parties to run web services for me".