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