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Server Setup We recently started to set up our own XMPP server to provide a support chat. Our goal was to automate as much as possible to reduce the maintenance effort to a minimum. While doing that, we also thought about how the experience is for XMPP newcomers to set up their own XMPP server. There are many XMPP servers available. But only few projects focus on quick and simple setups. Therefore, we started another small project called XMPP Providers Server. Its main purpose is to manage our XMPP server. And in the future, we will possibly run additional services on that server. But it also allows interested operators to have a smooth start with running their own XMPP server.
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Come Join Us After automating almost all the work necessary for querying provider properties, we were able to start adding new providers! There are 59 providers on the list at this moment 🎉 which enables us to show some statistics as well. For most of the questions regarding the project (how properties can be provided by server admins and so on), the FAQ section provides you with answers.
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Automate all the Things During the past year, the team behind the XMPP Providers project worked on automating the process of gathering data about XMPP providers. Automating this process reduces manual work significantly (for example, checking websites by hand, verifying information, listing sources, etc.) and helps to sustain the team’s efforts. Automation also enables the project to be up to date – every day! Last month, the project reached a state that allowed the suite of tools to automatically query many provider properties via XMPP and HTTP. All of these tools are working together in a GitLab pipeline running daily to keep the data up to date.
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Automating the Automatable During the past year, the team behind the XMPP Providers project worked on automating the process of gathering data about XMPP providers. Automating this process reduces manual work significantly (for example, checking websites by hand, verifying information, listing sources, etc.) and helps to sustain the team’s efforts. Automation also enables the project to be up to date - every day! At the beginning of this year, work on automating the collection of several provider ‘properties’ (for example, available size for file uploads) started. An overview of all these provider properties gathered for each XMPP provider can be found on the overview page. Some of these properties were already available in a machine-readable format, making it easy to be collected.
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Easy Onboarding with Android Chat App A new version of the Android XMPP chat app blabber.im has been released. It provides an easy onboarding. Passwords are generated automatically and XMPP providers are suggested. Those suggestions are based on our curated list of XMPP providers. blabber.im registration integrating XMPP Providers More Apps Supporting XMPP Providers We created XMPP Providers in order to build a base usable by several XMPP apps. But that would have little impact if no app integrated it. Only with the help of app developers, it is possible to have that impact. Thus, we are glad to announce such a big step towards free and easy communication!
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It’s Your Choice Are you looking for an XMPP provider that suits you? There is this new website now based on the data of XMPP Providers. XMPP Providers has a curated list of providers and tools for filtering them, creating badges and more. Each provider is categorized based on its properties to make decisions for users as easy as possible. All criteria for the categorization are carefully considered and clearly communicated. The source of each property is referenced for transparency and maintainability. In addition, the machine-readable list of providers can be integrated in XMPP apps to simplify the registration.
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