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If this news has anyone tempted to dust off an old jabber.org account, you may get an "account disabled" notification when trying to log in. Try again in an hou
by MattJ100 4y ago
If this news has anyone tempted to dust off an old jabber.org account, you may get an "account disabled" notification when trying to log in. Try again in an hour or so and you should be able to log in successfully.
Why? We've had well over a million accounts registered at jabber.org. We came up with a hacky solution to speed up the migration: we initially imported all accounts that have been active in the past 6 months. Now we're importing them on an on-demand basis. If you attempt a login and your data has not been migrated yet, you'll get "account disabled" error but your account will be prioritized for import during the next migration run (which is now running asynchronously multiple times per day).
Also note that the migration this weekend was just the first step in bringing the service back to life, it's still lacking a number of modern features that are widespread elsewhere in XMPP these days (for example, no push notifications for mobile clients). We'll be turning these things on over the coming weeks.
Finally, once the dust settles, we'll be looking towards the future of the service. Potentially opening up registration again (closed since 2013) and options to help the service be more self-sustaining (such as accepting donations).
- petre 4y agoWhat was it running before being migrated to Prosody IM?
- MattJ100 4y agoIt was running M-Link from Isode: https://www.isode.com/ https://www.isode.com/ . Their focus and expertise is mostly military and government deployments, rather than public IM services. We are extremely grateful that they offered to sponsor the service with both M-Link and hardware back when we really needed it, and it has been rock solid for many years. But we're looking forward to the flexibility we'll have with Prosody to make some changes to the service and add some features we've been missing that are understandably not on Isode's roadmap. For example, we've had registration closed for many years, but we're considering experimenting with invitation-based registration: https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/ https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/
- AceJohnny2 4y agoHow's Kev these days?
- neustradamus 4y agoThe XMPP server software history used: jabberd -> ejabberd -> Isode M-Link -> Prosody IM
- matsemann 4y agoDoes the disabled-message also tell you to come back in an hour? If not, you risk people trying, seeing their account is deactivated and never bother to come back.
- MattJ100 4y agoIt does not. But if they haven't used jabber.org in over 6 months and then randomly try to log in just once, they're probably not that desperate. Either way, their account will be imported and waiting for them when they try in another 6 months :)
- im3w1l 4y agoThey will think their account got deleted or hacked or they forgot the password. Probably never coming back ever.
- jamespo 4y agoor they go to www.jabber.org read the message and log in later
- TylerE 4y agoYou expect users to read? (Not sarcasm, btw)
- doctor_eval 4y agoAdd that to falsehoods about users that developers believe.
- b112 4y agoSo they are using the jabber.org client to connect, and know that's who controls the underlying protocol? Or did they just install a random client?
- winrid 4y agoWhy not just seemlessly migrate right then?
- kadoban 4y agoThat would require code to do that. I'd guess that by the time they got that implemented and tested, they'd no longer need it.
- durpkingOP 4y agodid you at least put a responsible error message for all people with failed logins to mitigate the issue?