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Service outage due to network checks

Due to network problems and the check of the switchport and the NIC of the server all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 2:00pm CET.

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Service outage due to third hard disk failure since summer

Due to the third hard disk failure since summer all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 10:00pm CET. Sorry guys, but the hard disk needs to be replaced. But for events like this the server runs a RAID1 array.

/EDIT 7:18pm: Our server provider needs more tests, so the 10pm date is cancelled. We will announce the service outage in a new blog article when clear.

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Service outage due to another hard disk failure

Due to another hard disk failure all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 11:45pm CEST. Sorry guys, but the hard disk needs to be replaced. But for events like this the server runs a RAID1 array.

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Features Transports

Twitter migrated to Spectrum 2

Along with other transports in the last days and weeks Twitter was migrated to Spectrum 2 today.

With Twitter you have some more features. Instead of using the personal messages from twitter.com@twitter.jabber.hot-chilli.net you can use your personal Twitter chatroom at #twitter@twitter.jabber.hot-chilli.net.

Sending #help to the Twitter transport gives you this:

#status ==> Update your status
#timeline [username] ==> Retrieve ‘s timeline; Default – own timeline
@ ==> Send a directed message to the user
#retweet ==> Retweet the tweet having id
#follow ==> Follow user
#unfollow ==> Stop Following user
#mode [012] ==> Switch mode to 0(single), 1(multiple) or 2(chatroom)
#help ==> Print this help message

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Downtimes

Jabber server back online with new hard disk

The server is back online again with a brand new 3TB hard disk. The RAID array is rebuilding now. The services were down from 12:30pm to 1:15pm CEST.

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Downtimes

Service outage due to hard disk failure

Due to a hard disk failure all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 12:45pm CEST. Sorry guys, but the hard disk needs to be replaced. But for events like this the server runs a RAID1 array.

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Features

URL change for web presence

The URL for the web presence service has changed, please see here.