We just activated XMPP Housekeeping for the openim.de and openim.eu domains. These two domains joined our server in spring of 2023, so it is time. ;-)
Yesterday we took over the domain openim.de and the XMPP/Jabber users running on it. The service would have been discontinued at the end of the month and as we think that a takeover is much more in the interest of users, we agreed to the old operator’s proposal. The import of the user accounts and user data took many hours, but everything should be running again by this morning at the latest.
If you don’t want to continue using your openim.de user account on our server, you can delete it yourself here. It is also worth taking a look at our XMPP/Jabber privacy policy. There we also explain what data is stored and for how long. The best way to get support is through our MUC support channel.
We noticed that there are currently many requests with invalid encryption on port 5223. With us, port 5223 (in contrast to the old openim.de server) is only used for Direct TLS (f.k.a. SSL) and not STARTTLS. Please adjust the connection settings in the clients accordingly! Information about our server can be found here.
Further questions? Gladly in the MUC support channel or here under the post as a comment.
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Upgrade to Prosody 0.12
We upgraded the Jabber server to Prosody 0.12 (from 0.11) yesterday, see the changelog.
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Hot-Chilli Matrix server
If anyone is looking for a Matrix server besides matrix.org or matrix.im, please visit us at hot-chilli.im (Element Web at element.hot-chilli.im). As with the Jabber/XMPP server, use is free.
The Matrix server has been running for some time, but the website is still empty. We will merge it with this website and provide information about both our Jabber/XMPP server and the Matrix server on the new merged website.
We did a lot of digging into the issues that the browser windows froze when logging into our web client, which is based on Converse.js. Now it seems to work and we run the trunk version as it is not released, yet. Many thanks go out to JC of Converse.js who took the time and fix the bugs.
Our web client is reachable through the website (if you do not use a mobile devices – there it is not shown) or through this direct link: conversejs.hot-chilli.im
If you want to try WebSocket instead of BOSH, please use this link: conversejs.hot-chilli.im/index-ws.html
(We might change this in the future, as WebSocket is more preferred as BOSH. If we do, we will drop an information here in the blog.)
So, if you stumble upon any problems, please let us know! :-)
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New public domain: hot-chilli.im
We just added another public domain to our XMPP/Jabber server: hot-chilli.im
For the future we plan to use this domain as the main domain for both the XMPP/Jabber server and the associated website. For the moment, however, everything remains the same.
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Quick Note – EU Commission & Chat Control
On March 30, the EU Commission plans to introduce a package of laws against child abuse that could result in the standard search of all files on the smartphones of all citizens. Civil rights organizations oppose these plans…
Article (in German) on https://netzpolitik.org
Article (in German) on https://www.heise.de
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Support for 2022
We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and also a Happy New Year, especially our users. We will continue to operate the server for you in the next year as well.
Unfortunately, the support for server operations has decreased significantly recently. We run the server as a non-commercial project, but of course we had always hoped that a well-run server would be able to cover costs at some point.
We are therefore very happy about a small donation, one-off or with a regular small amount (“one coffee a month”). Here you will find all the donation options, from crypto currencies to Paypal and IBAN bank transfer.
If you can’t give anything financially, that’s okay! Everyone else please think about the fact that a free service still incurs costs and that even the smallest donation can help.
PS: Thanks to all supporters who already support the server!