Just a quick note that you can receive notices about the jabber.org IM service by following us on identi.ca, the open microblogging service (it’s like Twitter, but without the silo!).

You might have noticed that we recently added a SOCKS5 Bytestreams proxy to our service, located at proxy.eu.jabber.org. This is the first of many proxies that we intend to deploy around the world so that you can more easily send files to your friends. Special thanks to Flosoft.biz for hosting the machine and paying for the bandwidth!

Request for Proposals: Jabber.org XMPP Service

This document defines a request for proposals to provide the software that runs the jabber.org IM service, one of the central nodes on the XMPP network.

1. Background

The XMPP service offered at jabber.org is the original and longest-running XMPP service on the Internet. In the beginning, the jabber.org service served as the development testbed for the jabberd server project. After the release of jabberd 1.0 in May 2000, the jabber.org service became more stable and thus more popular with end users. The userbase has continued to grow, from perhaps 500 users in late 1999 to over 500,000 users in April 2009. Clearly the service is no longer experimental, and considerable attention is needed to maintain an acceptable level of functionality and performance.

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The Jabber.org IM service has instituted a new account registration policy. Until further notice, IM accounts can be registered only via the web at register.jabber.org, which means that our longtime practice of allowing in-band registration using an IM client has been disabled.

You will notice that register.jabber.org requires you to complete a “CAPTCHA” test in order to create an account. This is a security measure to help prevent bulk account creation by automated processes. We might deploy further account security measures in the future, and will announce any such changes at the jabber.org website.

To get started with the Jabber.org service, create your own “username@jabber.org account” by visiting register.jabber.org, then download a free Jabber client, log in, and start chatting with friends on Google Talk, Live Journal Talk, Nimbuzz, Ovi, and thousands of other open IM services around the world.

Launch of jabber.co.nz

Fingers crossed

Minor outage this morning due to a new linux kernel.

Complete reboot just happened .. just updates to the linux kernel