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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by pixelcort on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @08:18PM (#5716013)
Considering that XMPP federation has been turned off for some time now, this really only hurts users using XMPP clients.

I was wondering why my friends with non-Google Jabber IDs were never showing up as online, and one day figured out federation was turned off.

This is as if a few months ago your email provider silently discarded emails to and from other domains, and just today abandoned SMTP and IMAP.

The true failure happened way back when federation was abandoned, not today.

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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by tuxracer on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @09:04PM (#5716211)
Federation was turned off temporarily to fix an exploit then turned back on. I guess it's moot now.
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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by dwdbah on Thursday May 16, 2013 @03:21AM (#5717368)
Right - there was a lot of noise about federation being turned off, although it never was.

1) Subscription requests to/from other domains were blocked.

2) Only for a short period (about a month, tops).

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