Comments on: Testing out MeFi jabber

Testing out MeFi jabber

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:49:09 -0800

I'm testing out a jabber server on MetaFilter. Use any jabber client (iChat, adium, trillian, gAIM, etc) to connect to metafilter.com. Enter your username as your_mefi_username@metafilter.com and your password is your existing website password here. Once logged in, you can IM other members that are online (my current status: ). Oh, this jabber server supports SSL for encrypted chat by default and also lets you talk to jabber users on other servers, including Google Talk (just add them to your buddy list). If this works out, I'll be experimenting with more features like chatrooms and perhaps allowing chat with Yahoo and MSN users as well. Let me know how it works for you, everyone that is a member here already has a login to the jabber server, automatically.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:49:53 -0800

I added the little jabber presence to user pages.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:55:20 -0800

I also added the little presence gif to your contacts page, so you can see what friends are currently online easily.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:33:34 -0800

Here's how to do it on iChat:

Open up prefs, accounts, hit the plus sign, then enter your details like this.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:35:21 -0800

Some systems don't require the domain in the username, but iChat does.

If anyone wants to submit config screens for other apps, drop them here and I'll throw them on a separate page for all this stuff.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:35:30 -0800

I downlaoded and installed Pandion for Windows and tried to connect.. (do spaces in mefi user names work?). It said my online status was 'available' but the contact list portion of the screen jsut said "one moment please..." for a few minutes then the program crashed.

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:37:53 -0800

This is great, thank you. One question though... If you have spaces and/or special characters in your mefi name, how do you input them? I can't login the way it wants me to (EmperorYamamotosEggs). Perhaps it is client side (I am using Adium). Any ideas?

By: Malor

Malor — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:39:28 -0800

If you have any suggestions on good Jabber clients, I'm all ears. Mixed Win/Linux/OSX network.

I could, obviously, figure it out, but if someone else already has, I'd rather take advantage. :)

By: D.C.

D.C. — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:42:27 -0800

The MSN-styled status icon looks ugly here, but I guess it's easily recognized by most users.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:42:44 -0800

Dunno about spaces. inputting them directly didn't work?

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:42:50 -0800

Is there a standard group to join?

I'm using pandion for windows... seems to work, I think.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:44:29 -0800

From Jabber.org:

n addition, certain characters are not allowed in your username:

@ ('at' sign)

:(colon)

' (single quote)

" (double quote)

< (open angle bracket)br>
> (close angle bracket)

& (ampersand)

\r\n\t (whitespace is not allowed!)

cntrl-* (control characters)

:(

I don't know if that's for the jabber protocol or just the jabber.org server, though. I'm such a n00b.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:46:51 -0800

Okay, I logged on. Now what?

By: riffola

riffola — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:49:35 -0800

My status is:

By: menace303

menace303 — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:50:00 -0800

wow, this is cool. that is all

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:52:13 -0800

Wow. That was easy.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:53:00 -0800

OK, downloaded and installed Exodus, and it won't let me even type in the space in the username part.

Well, I tried.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:53:04 -0800

There's a general chatroom, with 30 member limit at mefi@conference.metafilter.com

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:53:53 -0800

Dunno about spaces. inputting them directly didn't work?

Adium wouldn't let me, presumably because of what Space Coyote posted....

By: Mijo Bijo

Mijo Bijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:57:11 -0800

I've tried every possible variation on my user name to log in with no success. It keeps saying that I have entered an incorrect password. (I logged out of MeFi and back in to check to see if I was in fact using the correct password).

By: riffola

riffola — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:57:29 -0800

Try %20 for each space.

By: Mijo Bijo

Mijo Bijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:59:58 -0800

No dice.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:04:04 -0800

I might have to write custom code for spaces, like Foo|Bar@mefi.com that gets translated.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:07:11 -0800

Spent 3 minutes trying to figure it out, gave up. I don't much care for chat anyway.

By: youarenothere

youarenothere — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:07:29 -0800

Nice.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:07:57 -0800

Presence error 400 in Trillian, whatever that means...

By: gsteff

gsteff — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:27:01 -0800

One cool feature to consider: giving all users a group of contacts thats identical to the contacts listed on their user page. Its been awhile since I've played with ejabberd, but it should be doable by replacing the table that stores contacts with a view.

By: reflecked

reflecked — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:34:30 -0800

Just a reminder. Those of us that have slower computers and haven't moved to Mac OS 10.4, can't use the Jabber network through iChat (or Proteus or Fire). I suppose that fugly Adium would do.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:36:38 -0800

yeah, gsteff, I was going to auto-authorize your bi-directional usercontacts. Something to do down the road.

By: pjern

pjern — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:49:31 -0800

Exodus seems to work pretty well, it was the third program I tried. Gaim didn't work for me, and Trillian Basic doesn't support jabber, apparently.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:53:34 -0800

This is cool Matt, thanks.

And just because someone has to say it: this is truly MetaChat. Fitting, perhaps, that she is currently offline.

By: youcancallmeal

youcancallmeal — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:01:09 -0800

With iChat, people's usernames don't show up in messages. It just shows up as Metafilter.

By: reflecked

reflecked — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:01:12 -0800

It appears that Adium doesn't seem to play with Jabber unless you use Mac OS 10.4+. Admittedly I only tried once.

By: dmd

dmd — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:01:33 -0800

Can those of us who already use jabber somehow get access (e.g., XMPP)?

The whole point of jabber is to not have to have a separate account for every single service you use...

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:03:19 -0800

I could enable XMPP for other servers, at the moment just talk.google.com is enabled.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:04:48 -0800

Got it to work on Gaim 1.5 on Windows, cool.

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:07:18 -0800

Anyone get Gaim working? I can get a connection to conference, but I can't figure out how to get into the chat room...

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:07:35 -0800

Settings help, octothorpe?

By: jenovus

jenovus — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:09:53 -0800

Why does Trillian crash every time I try to connect? This is getting frustrating . . . maybe I should just stick with intermittent appearances in #mefi.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:14:01 -0800

It appears that Adium doesn't seem to play with Jabber unless you use Mac OS 10.4+. Admittedly I only tried once.

It worked for me. I am on 10.3.

By: cali

cali — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:18:54 -0800

I works on meebo.com, but for some reason doesn't reliably show who is online.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:22:13 -0800

Sad about the spaces. This seems like fun.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:24:01 -0800

VulcanMike: I thought that there wasn't a chatroom yet. I just was able to connect to the server and see a little green icon in my user page by putting "octothorpe" as my screen name and metafilter.com as the server and clicking save.

By: reflecked

reflecked — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:27:09 -0800

Thanks vacapinta. I needed to update Adium, your post encouraged me to do so.

It seems to be connected (not that there's anything to see or anyone to talk to).

By: cali

cali — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:27:39 -0800

The problem I had magically fixed itself when those I added accepted me. I guess you can't see that some one is online if you aren't on their approved list.

By: RockyChrysler

RockyChrysler — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:29:19 -0800

i'm doing something wrong... i've logged in fine via gAIM, but i've got no buddies... not that i was expecting buddies... but i had hoped... anyway, when i manually enter a buddy who appears to be online (ie: mathowie), it tells me "not authorized"... can a remedy for this be suggested, please?

By: reflecked

reflecked — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:30:56 -0800

Yes.. what RockyChrysler said. There's no indication of who's online. (I'm now offline.)

By: quin

quin — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:34:04 -0800

i'm in the same boat with Adium and 10.3, it lets me log in and my icon is green, but no one to chat with. i'm going to assume it's (kinda) working, because it correctly identified the server as conference.metafilter.com, which i didn't type in.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:38:03 -0800

conference worked for me on Adium. Cool feature. Thanks matt.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:38:57 -0800

everyone that logs in the first time has no one in their buddy list. the way jabber works is like AIM and ICQ and everything else -- you have to manually add people.

By: pjern

pjern — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:41:54 -0800

Matt's my buddy: Google Talk says so :)

By: Mercaptan

Mercaptan — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:43:58 -0800

This is superawesome. I'm so there.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:49:11 -0800

The Coolness. It works, our fearless leader has typed words specifically to me!

i am a unique snowflake :)

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:55:39 -0800

Hmm. 407:Registration Required from Gaim now. Though I did go back to my chat window and was surprised to see that I did get in properly earlier, but just missed the tab...

By: 6550

6550 — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:57:43 -0800

Does anyone have gaim settings that work? I get a couldn't connect to host message.

By: 6550

6550 — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:00:42 -0800

I got it figured out. On gaim, screen name is only "6550" and server is "metafilter.com".

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:07:39 -0800

on gAIM, this works for me:

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:10:02 -0800

So - what's this for exactly? I'm signed in - what can I do with it? Are there rooms I can chat with metafilter users in? I'm using Adium, but I don't see any clear way to get a room list.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:10:37 -0800

Hmm. I just deleted gAIM because I couldn't get it to work, but I'll try again.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:12:46 -0800

I'd recommend Psi. It is not as pretty, however.

By: Gnatcho

Gnatcho — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:12:49 -0800

Is the mefi room full? I tried to add it in Adium (I was able to easily connect to the mefi jabber server), but adding or messaging mefi@conference.metafilter.com doesn't work.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:13:52 -0800

Shouldn't be full.

By: 31d1

31d1 — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:17:42 -0800

Adium:
once you're logged on, File -> Join Group Chat and then:

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:18:12 -0800

I got 407: Registration Required when trying to join the mefi room.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:19:53 -0800

Er, I should go to sleep since I keep making these innane errors. 407 Registration Required is fixed by filling in the Handle box before hitting Join.

Still - I get no message, but no room ever comes up.

By: Gnatcho

Gnatcho — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:21:23 -0800

Same here

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:26:21 -0800

ok, there are two seperate things going on here: IM, and the chat room. in gAIM, after connecting, i have to go to the menu and choose "Join Chat" and fill in another box, like so:

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:34:18 -0800

ok, now I get it. i saw the jabber tag in iChat but it cornfused me. see you timewasters shortly!

By: majick

majick — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:37:26 -0800

The conference isn't working at all from my gtalk account. Maybe XMPP isn't quite up to snuff yet?

I'd hate to have to manage yet another identity, since the whole point of Jabber is to avoid that problem.

By: jonson

jonson — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:44:15 -0800

I just tried it out, and when I signed out of it, my pants were off and someone had been touching me in a bad way. I'm using Pandion on a windows xp pro box, if that helps diagnose.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:48:04 -0800

*washes hands*

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:49:12 -0800

I'm sorry, jonson.

By: jonson

jonson — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:01:38 -0800

dudes... uncool. boundaries, people.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:10:41 -0800

I couldn't get in at all, but it may be my own firewalls and/or fios settings. I couldn't get any of the clients I downloaded to work at all, much less communicate with metafilter itself.

And I was so looking forward to some hot jonson action, too.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:13:24 -0800

If the Commish ain't playing then I ain't playing.

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:17:56 -0800

I mean, apart from not having anyone to chat with in iChat. waaaahhh!

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:20:30 -0800

I tried to do what 31d1 said above re Adium but nothing happens. Is it because no-one is online or what?

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:24:03 -0800

Now it says

Error joining chat mefi@conference.www.metafilter.com/keijo

404: Remote Server Not Found

By: Gnatcho

Gnatcho — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:24:51 -0800

restart adium...that worked for me.

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:26:53 -0800

Did that already, updated to latest version and I'm on 10.4.4. Hmm. I must be doing something wrong. I just don't want another client.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:32:04 -0800

keijo, remove the www in your chat address.

yhbc, try meebo.com

By: bshort

bshort — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:32:57 -0800

Wait, so are we going to get little Jabber icons next to our usernames?

By: bshort

bshort — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:33:41 -0800

Oh, I see. It looks like it's only on our user pages.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:36:07 -0800

huh, meebo.com doesn't do chatrooms in jabber, oh well.

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:36:30 -0800

Thanks Matt, really stupid mistake

By: danb

danb — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:40:55 -0800

This is pretty cool.

By: mikel

mikel — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:48:19 -0800

Anyone figure out how to join group chats in iChat? I'm logged in OK but can't see anything comparable to the Adium screenshot posted above.

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:50:30 -0800

Works for me in iChat fine, just don't want to use it. Just go to File/Go to chat and enter mefi

By: mikel

mikel — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:52:13 -0800

Duh. Thanks Keijo. I was trying to make it too complicated.

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:17:24 -0800

FWIW: I don't see a way to bookmark mefi@conference.metafilter.com in iChat. i added the ID as a jabber buddy, and it's
"awaiting authoorization" with an email of metafilter@metafilter.com; same results if i try to set it up with mefi@conference.metafilter.com as the email.

iChat users may be interested in the font rendering, which I had never had occasion to play with previously.

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:19:07 -0800

Also, thanks again, Matt. Fine idea! You are the pony master.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:21:20 -0800

I downloaded gAIM and entered everything exactly like on quonsar's screenshot, but no matter what I do it still tells me I cannot connect to host. What am I missing? I can't even figure out how to make it work in my already-installed trillian.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:30:15 -0800

Nevermind. It was my own firewall.

By: kenko

kenko — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:32:04 -0800

Hangs on "authenticating" in Gaim for me.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:45:00 -0800

Thanks 31d1, that worked for me in Adium.

By: deborah

deborah — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:59:43 -0800

I have the same problem as kenko. :^(

By: deborah

deborah — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:03:50 -0800

It was the wrong password. Yay!

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:25:39 -0800

Troubles here with Adium, too.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:29:14 -0800

Troubles here with Adium, too.

Mind, it would be beneficial were I to confirm that Adium's Jabber is working at all.

Also, while I just diddled my router's firewall, it occurs to me I might have to fiddle with OS X's firewall, too...

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:29:28 -0800

FFF, it should work like we talked above at least if you're on 10.4. Otherwise, iChat.

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:30:37 -0800

Aah, don't know about firewalls, I managed to connect even with very tight settings on my physical firewall. (but not that I know much, maybe somebody wiser can help)

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:34:59 -0800

Oh. Spaces aren't fixed yet?

Do I need to create a jabber account on jabber.org?

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:37:23 -0800

Goddamnit, #1, I'm completely addicted now! Are you satisfied?

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:40:27 -0800

Yeah, I've spent all morning there. Are you happy mathowie?

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:44:44 -0800

FFF: I don't think so, I didn't.

By: I Love Tacos

I Love Tacos — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:58:31 -0800

fff: I think we're SOL for the moment. Alas.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:08:56 -0800

I gave up using Adium for jabber a long time ago. Among other things it keeps losing the connection to the yahoo and aim transports. I use psi on every platform now.

By: keijo

keijo — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:24:21 -0800

Strange, because Adium works best for me on all networks. Jabber seems to work fine as well. I've never used it before.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:24:39 -0800

I'm hoping to have a fix for spaces in a day or two.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:37:09 -0800

keijo -- I meant when I use Adium to connect to a jabber network which has transport gateways to the yahoo and aim networks; as opposed to using it to connect directly to yahoo or aim. It always loses the transport connections in the former case. I've made little use of it in the latter sense, though I've little doubt that it's probably fine.

By: keijo

keijo — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:44:57 -0800

Aah, sorry misunderstood. Never tried that.

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:46:45 -0800

Thanks for looking into the spaces/special chars thing, matt.

By: dmd

dmd — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:15:50 -0800

mathowie, could you please enable XMPP for Dreamhost's jabber servers?

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:06:36 -0800

Can someone expleain to me how this works on Trillian? Is there some kind of jabber client I have to download first? My only connection options on Trillian are MSN, AIM, and Yahoo.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:12:32 -0800

I think only Trillian Pro has jabber support, though I might be confused about this.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:10:09 -0800

dmd, what's the server name for dreamhost's jabber stuff?

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:24:12 -0800

I think we're gonna need pictorials for all this!

By: 6550

6550 — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:29:29 -0800

Yeah, I don't think the free Trillian supports jabber. I just downloaded Gaim last night and it works fine, after I got it set up with quonsar's help. Gaim seems to do everything I need so I'm going to uninstall Trillian.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:31:34 -0800

i wonder why this transparent gif isn't transparent on the userpage, or in matt's post above: but it is transparent in reality and shows as transparent in live preview and in this comment? some css nit i imagine?

By: mph

mph — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:41:41 -0800

dmd, what's the server name for dreamhost's jabber stuff?

Dreamhost Jabber is set up using each user's domain (my Dreamhost-hosted server is at puddingbowl.org), so I don't think there'll be any way to just enable everyone who has a server hosted there.

By: riffola

riffola — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:36:04 -0800

Testing:

By: riffola

riffola — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:37:01 -0800

Hmm so Matt can use style tags in his post & comments but we can't? Unfair! :)

By: FunkyHelix

FunkyHelix — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:19:09 -0800

Okay, I dislike Trillian because it constantly crashed when I used it, so I'm not going to go get the Pro version just for the jabber. I simply run AIM with the ad hack right now. What program should I download that can run this jabber and the AIM at the same time, without spending huge amounts of time combing forums to figure out the set up?

By: mrbill

mrbill — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:28:38 -0800

Unfortunately you can only be signed into one Jabber account at once with iChat, so I have to disconnect from Google Talk to be logged into MeFi. :(

By: keswick

keswick — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:30:35 -0800

That's why you should install Adium, mrbill.

By: purephase

purephase — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:31:43 -0800

Just to re-iterate George_Spiggott's comment, the Psi Japper Client worked like a charm and it works with both Mac and Windows.

By: purephase

purephase — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:32:26 -0800

That would Jabber, not Japper

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:33:27 -0800

Trillian Pro does support Jabber, but you have to download the plugin and install it. Worse, the plugin crashes a lot. It's mostly stable for me with Google Talk and with MeFi's server as long as I only chat to individuals. But joining the conference room causes pretty regular crashes, although it does work sometimes.

I generally love Trillian, but so far their Jabber support is a bit iffy.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:39:49 -0800

I'm a technoidiot and I somehow got gaim and jabber to work so anyone can. I did it a while ago though and can't remember what I did.

By: 6550

6550 — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:45:44 -0800

FunkyHelix, try gaim. I was able to get it working with a little help.

By: Asparagirl

Asparagirl — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:58:17 -0800

How does one join a chatroom/conference room with Trillian Pro?

By: mk1gti

mk1gti — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:03:16 -0800

I'm using Pandion and it's working pretty nicely

By: Saucy Intruder

Saucy Intruder — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:31:14 -0800

This thread has made Space Coyote creatively eponysterical.

I too look forward to joining you guys when liberated.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:08:03 -0800

I never thought I'd be discriminated against because of my spaces.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:13:30 -0800

Ok, people with spaces try logging in and use a pipe character instead of a space. So:

five|fresh|fish@metafilter.com

Let me know!

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:43:46 -0800

Works for Mayor|Curley

By: blag

blag — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:14:41 -0800

Asparagirl writes 'How does one join a chatroom/conference room with Trillian Pro?'

Once you've set up the mefi jabber account, go to the main Trilian window. Click on the purple dot (jabber) and select "Join Conference Room..."

Room: mefi
Server: conference.metafilter.com
Nick: should be filled in
Password: you'll need to re-enter it

Click "Join" and you're in.

By: vodkadin

vodkadin — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:27:31 -0800

I've got it working on Trillian Pro with the Jabber plugin. Everything seems to be in it's right place, and I'm in the mefi chat room.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:40:54 -0800

skip the nick and password in blag's example actually

By: blag

blag — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:49:39 -0800

I entered them both (nick is already filled in) and it worked fine :p

By: deborah

deborah — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:41:16 -0800

I still say they look like green nipples.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:49:35 -0800

How does one go about rediscovering one's password?

By: keswick

keswick — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:57:36 -0800

your password is "12345"

By: Asparagirl

Asparagirl — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:57:39 -0800

/me blows kiss to blag

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:15:08 -0800

According to Exodus for Windows, "You're not allowed in the room."

Am I not cool enough, is the room full, or did I do something wrong? Exodus chose conference.metafilter.com for the server, and I typed in my username and password. There wasn't a field for mefi@conference.metafilter.com.

Where do the B-list MeFi users hang out?

By: keswick

keswick — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:21:43 -0800

monkeyfilter.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:22:44 -0800

I'm logged in fine using iChat on 10.4.4, but everyone has the same lightbulb icon. Rather confusing not being able to distinguish between folk.

I tried adding people in the channel to my 'buddy list' - thanks chrismear - but they remain lightbulbs, iconwise. Any ideas how to fix this?

(Um, this problem may be down to me never having used iChat, nor any other instant messaging type program, before...)

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:42:50 -0800

Never mind: hit "Show Names and Pictures" in the View menu.

By: Ms Snit

Ms Snit — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:44:34 -0800

ok...I'm feeling like a techno geek. I've got Psi set up, but when I try to logon as Ms|Snit@metafilter.com it tells my there's an authentication error and that the user isn't verified. What am I missing?

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:47:18 -0800

Okay, I figured it out. In case anyone is as new to IM as I am, they should know when Matt says mefi@conference.metafilter.com, conference.metafilter.com is the server and mefi is the chatroom. I'm sure that's basic to most here, but I never use IM.

By: Ms Snit

Ms Snit — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:15:16 -0800

*coughs* I was using the wrong password.

By: 40 Watt

40 Watt — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:09:07 -0800

Hot diggety damn! 40|Watt is in the heezy for sheezy!

Thanks, Matt!

By: sjvilla79

sjvilla79 — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:15:08 -0800

Works for me in Gaim for Windows. Here's how to set it up for those perhaps still not sure.

Anyway, nice work, Matt. Thanks.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:34:32 -0800

I thought, oh cool, what a nice pony. What a disappointment to go to MeFi Jabber and see the same old crap that took over irc.metafilter.com; mostly offensive "jokes" and I use the word guardedly. Too bad. Guess one wishing for more scintillating conversation will have to stay in these parts. Thanks anyway for all your hard work, Mathowie.

By: delfuego

delfuego — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:58:30 -0800

Re: Dreamhost requests above, mph has it right -- the only way to reliably allow all Dreamhost Jabber users to connect to the MF Jabber server is to let all potential servers to connect to the MF Jabber server -- all the Dreamhost servers live under the domains of their users. (So, for example, I have my "own" Dreamhost Jabber server at the domain I host there.)

By: qwip

qwip — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:00:49 -0800

Lynsey, I think you just timed it poorly. Sure there is some sillyness going on - but that has more to do with people just trying to get their clients working and others just shoot the shit to give them somehting to look at. I'd wait a bit before I threw in the towel and wrote back home about it...

By: ChrisR

ChrisR — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:42:18 -0800

I'm trying connections by way of Google Talk, and I can get into the conference, but actual instant messages from MeFi members isn't working out too well. Has anyone else had any luck?

By: 6550

6550 — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:49:19 -0800

Yeah, Lynsey stepped in at just the right time to catch some pretty terrible jokes but missed the long discussion on books for example.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:10:00 -0800

Yeah, Lynsey stepped in at just the right time to catch some ~~pretty terrible jokes~~ quonsar but missed the long discussion on books for example.

By: By The Grace of God

By The Grace of God — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:46:59 -0800

Wootings, it works.

By: dios

dios — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:54:45 -0800

How does one join this with google talk? Is there a port issue? For instance, I can't connect to IRC at work because I think the port is blocked. So, will I have the same problem connecting to this with google talk?

By: salmacis

salmacis — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:08:49 -0800

*sigh*. How do I create a Jabber account with iChat? My only options are .Mac and AIM. The "Log in to Jabber" option is greyed out.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:16:26 -0800

Woot. It worked.

Having the correct password does indeed help. D-oh.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:07:57 -0800

Unfortunately, it seems that no one I'm familiar with is actually hanging out on the chat channel.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:34:31 -0800

Cant get this to work at all.

By: Ms Snit

Ms Snit — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:31:38 -0800

I hear there's a page that shows all mefites that are currently online on jabber. Anyone gots da linkage on that?

By: Ms Snit

Ms Snit — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:36:18 -0800

found it...

http://www.metafilter.com/jabber.mefi

*la la la*

By: 6:1

6:1 — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:17:07 -0800

Have we figured out a fix for : yet?

By: delfuego

delfuego — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:22:19 -0800

I wasn't aware that : was a problem; had you ever alerted anyone to it being one? (I only say that because your post implied that we should know about this bug... but it's unclear how we would have.)

I'll see what I can do later today...

By: mkultra

mkultra — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:34:11 -0800

Out of curiosity, how are you doing the integration? Is the Jabber server "configured" to look at the MeFi user db, or is some back-end script silently creating Jabber users?

By: delfuego

delfuego — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:33:56 -0800

I'm using custom classes on the Jabber server to query the actual MeFi user DB. It turns out to be reasonably simple (especially when you learn Java!). :)

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:36:23 -0800

Is anyone having problems logging in? I can't get in with gaim (stuck at authorizing for 20 minutes now), can't get on with pandion "one moment please..." and can't even load the mefi "who's online" page. Haven't changed any settings on my computer, but is the problem just on my end?

By: jouke

jouke — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:45:24 -0800

It didn't work with Gaim with me until I opened port 5222 in my firewall

By: 6:1

6:1 — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:37:59 -0800

It was noted above as a problem, didn't know if anyone had figured out a fix. Matt doesn't know of one. Thanks.

By: Maishe

Maishe — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:10:12 -0800

I cannot get gaim to work, anyone want to help me please?

By: Colloquial Collision

Colloquial Collision — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 05:16:33 -0800

Thank you, Mr. Haughey.