Jabber users in arch community

jamesbond007 · 2010-07-31 18:35:19

I have a Jabber account, see profile. Feel free to add me to your buddy list.

cinan · 2010-07-31 18:56:45

I have two jabber acconts. I used to chat in MUC (multi user chats), now I chat over jabber very rarely.

jamesbond007 · 2010-08-02 13:29:37

No more Jabber users on this forum...?

splittercode · 2010-08-02 13:32:21

I don't even know what jabber is . I just use email and occasionally AIM, as some of my friends use it.

Mektub · 2010-08-02 13:46:31

jamesbond007 wrote:

No more Jabber users on this forum...?

I do have a Jabber account with 0 contacts. Address is on my profile.

I have a dozen people on Gmail and Facebook (which are also XMPP, sort of...).

It seems that most people get added more or less automatically to Gmail and/or Facebook, and thats it.

Mektub

jamesbond007 · 2010-08-02 14:02:16

Mektub wrote:

I have a dozen people on Gmail and Facebook (which are also XMPP, sort of...).

If you mean GoogleTalk with Gmail than this is effectively the same: you can chat with any Jabber account from GoogleTalk.

archman-cro · 2010-08-02 15:49:55

I use the jabber account in bitlbee to connect to Google Talk.

Spacenick · 2010-08-02 20:27:58

I use it as well mostly with study buddys I also use ICQ and some WLM but mostly Jabber

Ogion · 2010-08-02 21:25:58

You know what's weird? Lots of Germans in this thread.. Is that just coincidence or some difference in usage/statistics in IM?

Ogion

Runiq · 2010-08-03 08:20:00

More like overcompensation.

Or a cry for help maybe.

madeye · 2010-08-03 09:31:49

I have a jabber account, but no contacts. Kind of defeats the purpose of having an IM account
Please feel free to add me if you want. My account is listed on my profile page.

Radioactiveman · 2010-08-03 11:11:43

I'm also from Germany and use my Jabber account with an ICQ transport.
Everything works fine except ICQ file transfer but I don't need that very often.

Btw, Jabber rulez, people who don't know it should test it ... -> Serverlist

essence-of-foo · 2010-08-03 17:58:18

I have several jabber accounts and I use jabber exclusively.

I'm from Germany and as others have already written, ICQ is dominating here. But on the other hand more and more people start communicating with FaceBook and other social networks and totally unlearn how to use a program that doesn't run in a browser :-/

jordi · 2010-08-03 19:17:25

< jabber user, feel free to add me

rebugger · 2010-08-03 19:23:47

running my own jabber server for me and a friend, i'm using jabber (but still icq too)

b4d · 2010-08-04 11:24:48

I'm using it as my main IM, all the contacts I really need are either on jabber directly or on google talk so it's great.

IncredibleLaser · 2010-08-04 16:57:34

I too use jabber, but I only have one contact. All my friends use ICQ. Funny that it seems to be a german thing.

saedelaere · 2010-08-08 15:46:22

I am also using jabber, feel free to add me to your contacts. See my profile for details

Regards

lswest · 2010-08-08 20:31:19

I use Jabber as well. As for why...same reason why I have skype, hotmail, yahoo, and IRC accounts I suppose. I like being reachable by people I know, and I find most of the people I know tend to shy away from emails, so I've got quite a collection of accounts. Not got too many contacts on my jabber account (I think there is a grand total of 3 contacts), but I tend to keep an account as long as I have at least one contact on it. I also wasn't able to get google talk to play nice with jabber.org users originally, which led to me signing up for a jabber.org account myself - now that I gave that contact info out, there's no reason to switch back to my gtalk account. Besides, Pidgin makes keeping track of numerous accounts extremely easy.

Ironically, I have an ICQ account and have one contact on it too - but I hardly ever use it, and know no one besides the one contact who use it. Guess I'm an outlier in this sample of german users.

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xenofungus · 2010-08-08 23:13:56

Maybe we should create a MUC room somewhere, it'd be easier to meet and talk there.

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sokuban · 2010-08-09 13:41:51

I have a Jabber account. (See profile)

Having said that of course, most of my Jabber contacts have MSN too, so Jabber is kinda pointless from a communication perspective. Though I do know a few people who only have a Jabber account. Before, I knew a computer illiterate guy who didn't use IM or anything, and I added him through Google Talk so I could talk to him when he opens his email sometimes. He has since gotten MSN though.

ICQ is about the only IM service I don't use. I used to have an account, but I didn't know anyone who used ICQ, so after a while I started forgetting to put it into pidgin. I also have a few contacts on AIM, Yahoo and QQ. (Having said that, QQ doesn't work with the latest pidgin version anymore. x_x)

Though sometimes I wonder whether I should care about supporting Jabber all that much. Sure, it's open source and all, but I have a feeling that if they haven't already, Google will have the resources to log all our conversations before Microsoft/the others. (I use archlinux.us for my Jabber account, so it's branded gmail.)

Ogion · 2010-08-09 15:35:41

Well, the good thing about Jabber (no, not the xml, that is the bad thing) is that you are not tied to one central server. There are tonnes of free jabber servers out there, if you dont like google (i certianly don't) pick a server that is not from google.

And agreed about an arch muc. Wouldn't hurt to get some Jabber usage by that.

Ogion

sokuban · 2010-08-09 17:37:39

Ogion wrote:

Well, the good thing about Jabber (no, not the xml, that is the bad thing) is that you are not tied to one central server. There are tonnes of free jabber servers out there, if you dont like google (i certianly don't) pick a server that is not from google.

While I'll admit it's just lazyness on my part, it doesn't change much if I get another server because 90% of my contacts are on Google anyways.

xenofungus · 2010-08-09 18:39:06

We actually have an (unofficial) MUC room already!

It's archlinux@conference.fritalk.org and there are some people there.

arch0r · 2010-08-09 18:40:41

fingerhut@jabber.ccc.de feel free to add :>

besides this jabber account i have an icq account because, as other said, it's THE chat protocol used in germany and russia.

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