Jabber.org is a public, free

instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigge ...

(IM) and presence service, based on

XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, originally named Jabber) is an open communication protocol designed for instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance. Based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), i ...

, an open standard for IM.

History

Jabber.org was started in 1999 and has offered free instant messaging continuously since. It originally served as the development test bed for the jabberd project, the original Jabber/XMPP server. After becoming more stable it also became more popular with end users. As of 2012, it was a public production service, and one of the biggest nodes on the open XMPP network, with an average of 17,000 users logged in at a time. Jabber.org originally ran on what is now known as Jabberd14. In 2006 the service was migrated to

ejabberd ejabberd is an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) application server and an MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) broker, written mainly in the Erlang programming language. It can run under several Unix-like operating systems such as ma ...

on which it ran until 2010. In 2010 the service was migrated to Isode Limited's M-Link XMPP Server. Which was then migrated to

Prosody_(software) Prosody (formerly lxmppd) is a cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua. Its development goals include low resource usage, ease of use, and extensibility. Prosody uses the default XMPP ports, 5222 and 5269, for client-to-server and server-to-se ...

in 2023 resulting in slight account disruption. Originally, Jabber.org also offered Jabber accounts. Since June 25, 2013 it stopped offering new accounts although it supports Jabber/XMPP accounts created by other services.

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