jabber.hot-chilli.netThe captchas of our registration forms (account and transport pre-registration) work again.
There was a session management problem which now is solved. Sorry for the time it did not work.
The web forms for changing passwords and removing accounts are not available, yet. Also there will be forms to reset passwords by sending out a mail. Therefore there will also be a web form to bind mail addresses to Jabber accounts. Please stay tuned.
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
Some people misunderstood the new pre-registration for our transport services. So we want to make this clear:
You do not have to use this if you already have an transport account! But if you want to create a new account, you have to pre-register first.
Due to heavy bot and spam we just activated a pre-registration for most of our transport services. Thank you very much to Zash for this quick-n-dirty and well-working Prosody module.
From now on you have to make a pre-registration on this website before you can register to one of our transports by using your Jabber client. This pre-registration record is valid for 10 minutes, after that you would have to use our web form again.
Next to closing in-band registration for Jabber accounts this really seems to be necessary. Sorry about that…
The three transports finally work again. Thank you for your patience.
The other transports like SMS, Disk and JMC will follow asap. Please stay tuned.
All Spectrum based transports (ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, GG…) are up and running again for half a day now. For a complete list see the sidebar widget on the right side of the webpage.
There is still a lot of work to do, we will keep you posted.
Ok, the main virtual host jabber.hot-chilli.net and all private virtual hosts moved to the new server today. Also the website and the transport data.
“Transport data” because the transports itself do not run, yet. We need some help from Spectrum maintainers – maybe there is something basicly wrong with the new config files or Spectrum 2 is still too buggy. We will see. Until then please stay tuned and be patient – we do not want to have the transports offline for a long time, but it can take some days.
Also Prosody is having some issues on which we are working hard, especially the maintainer of Prosody, MattJ. Our server is having a lot of load, also “crazy” users ;-) and a Debian system which seems to create more problems with Prosody than other Linux distributions. So if the Jabber server itself is offline from time to time in the next days, we are working on it.
Mainly because of performance issues we will migrate the server from ejabberd to Prosody in the next days or weeks. Also the Spectrum 1 transports will be migrated to Spectrum 2. To create the less disturbance possible we migrate everything to a new server machine.
Anyway there will be downtimes, because sometime we have to migrate the user data and switch the DNS records.
As you can imagine some things will change in the future, which is perfectly normal when using a complete different software. We will try to keep as many feature we offer today plus adding the benefits and features of the new software to the server.
We will keep you posted, this was just intended to be a first basic information.
Ideas, suggestions, questions? Write us! :-)