The XMPP Newsletter, 1 June 2018

 Posted on June 1, 2018 |  3 minutes |  Newsletter |  jcbrand

Welcome to another edition of the XMPP newsletter. News The next release of Salut à Toi will include file sharing. Sharing files directly between two users has been possible before, but now it’s possible to share a file hierarchy, or in other words one or several directories. To share with someone, just use their XMPP address (JID). Christopher Muclumbus is a new project to publicly list XMPP chat rooms. It provides a web interface with full-text search for room names, descriptions and addresses. Only rooms which are configured to be publicly listed are shown. [Read More]

The XMPP Newsletter, 3 May 2018

 Posted on May 3, 2018 |  3 minutes |  Newsletter |  jcbrand

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the XMPP newsletter. Jeff Becker has written a howto called New life for XMPP. Build your own decentralized messenger! which focuses on using the I2P anonymous network layer instead of using a registered domain name. Peter Waher has published his book “Mastering Internet of Things”, available from Packt and Amazon. Georg Lukas has written a post Freedom and Anonymity on XMPP in which he addresses concerns around his Jabber Spam Fighting Manifesto and its possible effects on issues of privacy and free speech. [Read More]

The XMPP Newsletter, 30 March 2018

 Posted on March 30, 2018 |  3 minutes |  Newsletter |  jcbrand

Welcome to the second edition of our newsletter. Marek Foss from Process One has published the ejabberd 2017 year in review. Ejabberd has had almost regular monthly updates and is now compatible with XEP-0387: XMPP Compliance Suites 2018. The folks at Erlang Solutions wrote about their Real-time Experience at FOSDEM 2018. The article includes summaries of Michał Piotrowski’s talk “Scaling messaging systems” and Bartłomiej Górny’s “XMPP as the road to innovation”, as well as links to the video recordings of those talks. [Read More]

The XMPP Newsletter, 28 February 2018

 Posted on February 28, 2018 |  2 minutes |  Newsletter |  jcbrand

Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter. Eve Online, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game have announced that they are using Ejabberd in a new chat backend and ProcessOnce have written a a blog article about it. Staying with games, Epic Games have written a postmortem of a service outage where they mention certain stats related to their usage of XMPP. [Read More]