Tag: Spectrum

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Features Transports

Facebook transport for Facebook only

In the next days, weeks or months (it depends when the feature will be ready in Spectrum) we will implement white-/blacklists for our Facebook transport. After this the transport can only be used for Facebook – as it should be used. But as the Facebook transport is a “normal” XMPP transport many people use it for XMPP.

After the setup of white-/blacklists we will delete all non Facebook accounts out of the transport. Maybe we will move the non Facebook accounts to our XMPP/J2J transport, we’ll see.

So if you use our Facebook transport not for Facebook, please move to our XMPP/J2J transport.

BTW: Is there any need for a second XMPP transport as many of our users connect to more than one foreign XMPP account?

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Downtimes Features Maintenance Transports

Server offline due to maintenance work this morning

The server was offline this morning because of Kernel and MySQL upgrade. It would have happened faster if the server rebooted cleanly after “shutdown -r now” which it didn’t. So we had to send someone there to reset the machine manually.

We also upgraded Spectrum to support JID escaping. If this works after our tests (there seem to be some problems with clients who don’t support the unofficial % character which is used for @) I write more about this here.

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Transports

Spectrum transports “ghost” contacts issue is fixed

The thing with contacts appearing to be online after a Spectrum transport crashed (mentioned here) got fixed on May 23rd.

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Problems Transports

ICQ Transport stable again

We had stability problems with ICQ Transport starting yesterday morning. This was caused by a certain version of libpurple. Issues should be fixed now.

Please note that with Spectrum transports crashes (not “normal” stops or restarts) it might happen that your client thinks it’s still online. Therefore some contacts appear online even if the client is not really logged into the transport at the moment. Spectrum developers are working on this issue. Until then I just hope that the Spectrum transports run stable. ;-)

With the new libpurple Gadu-Gadu transport should finally be stable, too. We’ll see how this works out in the near feature.

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Features How-to's Transports

Twitter Transport working

The Twitter Transport was activated some days ago and since yesterday it is working as it should.

If you like to use it, just register with your Twitter username and password. Your Twitter contacts will appear in your roster. Authorize them.

To write a direct message (DM, the tweets with @username:), open the chat window of the Twitter contact and write the message (without @username:).

To write a normal message and to see what your Twitter contacts are writing, join your Twitter group chat at #home@twitter.jabber.hot-chili.net.

You cannot add new contacts to Twitter via the transport service. Please use Twitter instead.

Messages with more than 140 characters (the Twitter limit) will be split and sent in several pieces.

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Problems Transports

Facebook Transport works, Gadu-Gadu Transport unstable

In the meantime Facebook Transport works. So have fun with it. See here how to configure the transport service.

Spectrum Gadu-Gadu Transport seems to be very unstable. If this stays that way, we will revert back to the traditional transport service. Will see the next days…

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Transports

Gadu-Gadu Transport migrated to Spectrum

GG Transport has also been migrated to Spectrum. Only the registered users were imported into the new database. I was not able to import other settings and the buddylists to the new transport. Hopefully this won’t make any problems for the users.

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Features How-to's Transports

New transport services

The migration to Spectrum also brought up some new transports:

To use the Facebook Transport just register by entering your_facebook_username@chat.facebook.com as your user name and your Facebook password as the password. That’s it. The Facebook contacts get loaded into your Jabber client automaticly. Well, at least this should happen – the transport service does not work yet. So please be patient.