the new topyli standard » friends http://www.siltala.net Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:05:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Jabber upgrade http://www.siltala.net/2008/02/19/jabber-upgrade/ http://www.siltala.net/2008/02/19/jabber-upgrade/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:08:28 +0000 topyli http://www.siltala.net/2008/02/19/jabber-upgrade/ Today, I logged off of Google Talk and logged in on jabber.se exclusively. See the updated About page. The reason is simple: real Jabber has better Jabber support (no surprise there!), and I’m cutting down on recreational IRC usage. Jabber transports can easily handle the few channels I need to be on (unlike Google Talk). Proper MUC support is also a plus.

What this means is a change in priorities. I like having all my chat in one place. This means you have to compromise. I’ve enjoyed irssi‘s awesome IRC capabilities but suffered from Bitlbee‘s (and gTalk’s) poor Jabber support. Now I’m trying full Jabber with poor IRC support. Lets’s see how it goes.

All-In-One irssi session
Before: All-In-One, Always-On remote irssi session on my server.

On the desktop I’m now using Gajim because it lets me enjoy every feature provided by the server. On the mobile phone I’m trying out BombusMod. It’s very complete, but it’s also Java. Couldn’t find a better option. Tips for a good Jabber client for S60 phones are welcome. Needs to have MUC and transports at least, preferably account editing with full vCard support.

All-In-One Gajim
After: All-In-One, On-Demand, local Gajim session. The Gnome Do build on the background has nothing to do with it :)

Which reminds me, while the jabber.fi domain is fortunately secured by a cool Finnish Jabber and Free Software fan, we don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know of any concrete plans about a server. This needs to be fixed.

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peer review

Update Nov 18: added linkage.

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