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I ran my own xmpp server for a long time as well. Once gmail stopped federating xmpp (hangouts "upgrade"), most of my contacts just...went dark -- they still sh

I ran my own xmpp server for a long time as well. Once gmail stopped federating xmpp (hangouts "upgrade"), most of my contacts just...went dark -- they still showed as online, but they never got messages anymore. The few contacts who also ran their own servers, or used a public one, eventually gave up and stopped using it too, probably because most of their friends were on gmail too. So yeah. I think xmpp is pretty much dead, and google killed it. Oddly, irc still lives on!

scintill76 11y ago
Good to know someone else experienced this. Federation with new Hangouts may not be completely dead -- see my sibling comment if you're interested -- but they crippled it so bad, it may as well be. It's such weird behavior that I almost wonder if it's an accidental regression, as I don't why they'd bother to have it almost-work like that.