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1title: The future of jabber.ccc.de
2date: 2015-09-30 15:07:00
3updated: 2015-09-30 16:30:26
4author: 46halbe
5tags: update, pressemitteilung
6
7Tomorrow jabber.ccc.de will continue its service and be run by a new team of admins from now on.
8
9<!-- TEASER_END -->
10
11jabber.ccc.de will stay available for everyone in the future. The
12current team of admins will turn its attention towards new projects,
13though. The members of the CCC as well as many users can be thankful for
14a decade of voluntary dedication.
15
16With the chat protocol XMPP commonly known as Jabber decentralized
17setups can be created, which are much more resistant to failure than
18centralized systems. The CCC team of admins ran such a server for the
19past several years at jabber.ccc.de. Unfortunately, this server was so
20well received it became the de facto central service of the hacker
21crowd. This is running contrary to the idea we always advocated:
22Practice decentralization and run many interconnected servers. We
23therefore wish to combine this announcement of the continuation of
24jabber.ccc.de with a strong appeal again to run your own jabber servers!
25
26When our team of admins started to run jabber.ccc.de ten years ago,
27jabber was rather unknown and running a server required a lot of
28knowledge, experience and sometimes some luck and patience. Meanwhile
29plenty of easy to set-up and maintain server implementations exist, and
30there is no excuse left not to get active yourself.
31
32A new team of volunteer admins has formed within the CCC. The
33jabber.ccc.de service will therefore be continued. We nonetheless
34recommend all users to set up their own, decentralized servers or to
35obtain accounts on different servers.
36
37For updates follow [\@jabbercccde](https://twitter.com/jabbercccde) on
38twitter. The new team will publish detailed information about the new
39terms and conditions of jabber.ccc.de shortly.
40
41The temporary discontinuation of the service became necessary since some
42users have incorrect assumptions about its nature. jabber.ccc.de is a
43piece of infrastructure that is run by volunteers in their spare time.
44To use it is a privilege and not a right. To prevent incidents that
45might trigger another service discontinuation, new rules for the usage
46of jabber.ccc.de will be introduced and published soon.
47
48Many thanks to the current team of admins for ten years of reliable
49work!