Ask FastMail to keep their Jabber/XMPP on!

JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2015-11-17T12:55:12Z

Do you have an account on FastMail?

They're about to shut down their XMPP service, on the grounds that "other major players stopped supporting it". But that's a real vicious circle! You shut down because others shut down, who shut down because others shut down before...

If you're a customer of FastMail, please ask them to not shut down this service. In fact, you could ask them to make their jabber/XMPP service more visible instead. More of their users might use it then.

Thank you for your support! ;)

http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/16/shutting-down-our-xmpp-chat-service/

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@lfam, self-hosting XMPP (ejabberd or Prosody) is much easier than self-hosting email (postfix and dovecot).

XRevan86 at 2015-11-18T12:31:06Z

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Yeah, this is the first decision of theirs that has made me sad, but I can't argue against it, since all the people I used to chat with were on gmail and I've not used it for 2 years or so:-(

SombreKnave at 2015-11-18T22:38:17Z

If you are going to pay for a mail account, would FastMail be the place where the money would be most supportive of free software? Are there alternatives that offer xmpp support?

Brian Small at 2016-01-04T13:14:17Z

>> Brian Small:

“[...] Are there alternatives that offer xmpp support? [...]”

openmailbox.org offers XMPP service with the same account, and you can get a paid account with them =)

I thought the Kolab Now service (old MyKolab) by @Kolab Groupware offered XMPP too, but I can't see that on their site.

Countermail offers XMPP too, apparently, and they have paid plans.

JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2016-01-04T22:13:16Z