Free/Public Jabber/XMPP Server

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Posted by summel 245 days ago

Provide a free/open Jabber server for all users with jabber IDs like user@linux.com :)

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Written by madwaxer
243 days ago

while i like this idea i also have a worry that it would also create a central point for possible failure. much like twitter faces quite often. especially in this market as more IT departments are making the switch. i am concerned it might take a heavy it from support requests from confused new Linux users instead of going to forums.

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Written by ubducted
239 days ago

totally agree. this fits in with a few of the other ideas about having email and blog area for users.

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Written by haakon
235 days ago

I also think this sounds like a good idea, but to begin with perhaps we could get a field for Jabber/XMPP contact info in the profiles? :)

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Written by ximarix
193 days ago

That is exactly what I thought of too;) But a linux.com Jabber ID would be awesome as well..

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Written by fridrik
227 days ago

I love the idea of having a linux.com JID. Relative to other ideas, I'm not convinced this is a good time investment, though. I'm forced into the role of a Negative Nancy, but let me explain why.

Running a Jabber server, especially of this size; with security, configuration and scaling as concerns, with the huge amount of configuration offered by most Jabber servers, I'm not sure this project should be a priority.

I think the community benefits to time invested ratio is a bit too low. I may be missing something, but besides the @linux.com JID, I don't even see a real community benefit--conference rooms can already be created at will at jabber.org's conference server and they provide a non-commercial registration service.

However, maybe it'd be possible to get the nice guys over at jabber.org to serve Jabber for linux.com with their current server infrastructure. This would require virtually no configuration on Linux.com's end. They've already created a stable infrastructure and they know very much what they're dealing with in terms of server configuration, maintenance, scaling and security.

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Written by adhisimon
220 days ago

Why don't we use Google Apps free service to serve this XMPP server. It's free. And I think google would be interested too.

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Written by sam-tuke
213 days ago

leave google out of it. We have no need to rely on their saccerine gifts.

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Written by scuttledmonkey
190 days ago

I disagree with this. I have run a jabber server for 65,000 users on 4 servers and see no performance problems whatsoever. Granted it's not many users but as usage climbed I added machines into the cluster.

User support might be more than anyone cares to take on but that is independent of scaling the jabber server.

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