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Re:Show HN: Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client by gwillen on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @12:07PM (#9341758)
Can you explain, or point me to an explanation of, _in detail_, exactly what GTalk broke in terms of federation?

I find that in practice I can _sometimes_ communicate with _some_ users from _some_ clients, but it seems like it's flaky and there's not a clear pattern to it. Do you have any deeper insight?

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Re:Show HN: Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client by stpeter on Thursday April 09, 2015 @10:27PM (#9352268)
Most of the XMPP network switched last year to REQUIRING encryption for one server to talk to another server. Google doesn't support encryption at all for server-to-server links, and thus servers like jabber.org (of which I'm the admin) can't talk to Google anymore. See more at https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto/blob/master/manifesto.t...
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