Yeah, I feel less and less confident in relying on Google's XMPP. I was conviced that this would be the time. But I waited until today (17th February) to reply

Yeah, I feel less and less confident in relying on Google's XMPP. I was conviced that this would be the time. But I waited until today (17th February) to reply, and... well, Google hasn't shutdown its XMPP servers yet, apparently Go figure...