If this news has anyone tempted to dust off an old jabber.org account, you may get an "account disabled" notification when trying to log in. Try again in an hour or so and you should be able to log in successfully.

Why? We've had well over a million accounts registered at jabber.org. We came up with a hacky solution to speed up the migration: we initially imported all accounts that have been active in the past 6 months. Now we're importing them on an on-demand basis. If you attempt a login and your data has not been migrated yet, you'll get "account disabled" error but your account will be prioritized for import during the next migration run (which is now running asynchronously multiple times per day).

Also note that the migration this weekend was just the first step in bringing the service back to life, it's still lacking a number of modern features that are widespread elsewhere in XMPP these days (for example, no push notifications for mobile clients). We'll be turning these things on over the coming weeks.

Finally, once the dust settles, we'll be looking towards the future of the service. Potentially opening up registration again (closed since 2013) and options to help the service be more self-sustaining (such as accepting donations).

Very happy for Matt and the Prosody team. This is further validation of their good work.

We use Prosody successfully for powering the signalling in Jitsi Meet. Its extensibility has allowed us to develop many many features easily.

There's actually a nice service that lets you make and receive phone calls and texts over XMPP: https://jmp.chat

What happened with XMPP? Seems like the fragmentation of extensions kind of broke the client/server ecosystem, but the fundamentals seem solid, used by Whatsapp successfully, but for some reason recent open messaging alternatives seem to decide to develop new protocols rather than build on top of XMPP.

Prosody (server) and Monal (iOS client) make a great combination. I'm not aware of anything for Android that's as elegant as Monal but I'd be happy to hear people's suggestions.

Honest question, why not ejabberd? What was the +/- for prosody?

I run a prosody server for a small group of people. It's not hard to set up, though the XEPs are often poorly documented.

The only significant irritant for me is spam. Open registration servers are the blight of XMPP.

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Great to see open standards services switching to open source software.