Register
You can register an account on our XMPP server. This is the only way to register an account and an email address is required to register.
Server migration
The Jabber/XMPP server has now been migrated to a new host. There should have been minimal (<5min) interruption as it moved to the new host. The previous server had been getting a bit unreliable due to its age.
Downtime
[Update: 21/06/2023 08:30 BST] The maintenance work has completed and the XMPP server is available again The XMPP server is currently down for some unexpected maintenance. I do not expect it will currently be up until tomorrow while I attempt to tame a rather runaway database.
Server upgrades – Sunday 03/12/2017
[2:00pm] The work has been finished. There may need to be some minor configuration changes, but it should not interrupt any connections [Original post] There will be an upgrade to the server on Sunday 3rd December from 10:00am GMT. This is an upgrade to Prosody (the XMPP server software) which will add additional features to Read More …
Server down 7th – 8th March
The server crashed yesterday which took down the XMPP service. Once the server was restarted and service resumed I’m afraid we didn’t notice a crash in the database which powers it. We have now fixed the database and the server is back up and working again as normal.
Server interruptions
[22:00] This work has finished and there should be no further interruptions this evening. There will be some server interruptions on and off this evening as work is ongoing on the backend SQL server.