JAB JAB JAB

May 24, 2007 5:53 AM

Hey, so when is the Jabber servers going up if at all?
posted by wheelieman to Feature Requests at 5:53 AM (35 comments total)

Until then, there are fun times to be had in #mefi on slashnet.
posted by greasy_skillet at 6:29 AM on May 24, 2007

See what happens when you start giving people features?
posted by smackfu at 6:38 AM on May 24, 2007

Are.

When are the Jabber servers going up.

And what the hell is Jabber.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 6:41 AM on May 24, 2007

WITH WHOM I LIVED
posted by atrazine at 6:43 AM on May 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

And what the hell is Jabber.

It's sort of like IRC for people who are halfway between nerds and normals.
posted by chrismear at 6:48 AM on May 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

... and there used to be a jabber server that everyone liked, then it went away.
posted by Rhomboid at 6:54 AM on May 24, 2007

It was causing troubles with the server, so Matt withdrew it. Stick to #mefi for your hot, one-on-one mefi chatting needs.
posted by Dave Faris at 7:05 AM on May 24, 2007

There was Mattish speculation when we moved to the new hardware that the old hardware might, itself, become dedicated to Jabberish purposes. Dunno if that's still on track, but there you go: Real Soon Now, maybe.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:06 AM on May 24, 2007

Meh, I'll stick to #bunnies for now, if only to poke cortex with a stick everytime he doesn't respond within nanoseconds.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:09 AM on May 24, 2007

Nerdals?
posted by Elmore at 7:17 AM on May 24, 2007

I'm waiting for the jibber-jabber server, myself.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:44 AM on May 24, 2007

Often is the question asked, is our Jabber servers going up?
posted by Armitage Shanks at 7:45 AM on May 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

I was thinking about it last week. After one more big code push, I'll be working on it, so I'd say about 2-3 weeks from now we might be running it again.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:46 AM on May 24, 2007

I've been thinking about it too. I can't wait for you to push that big code and really work it. Ooh.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:54 AM on May 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

My my the tension just crackles in this thread. Let's skip the formalities and get right to orgy.metafilter.com
posted by Firas at 8:27 AM on May 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'll bring the aerosol cheese.
posted by Jofus at 9:03 AM on May 24, 2007

scan my cat, big boy...
posted by quonsar at 10:20 AM on May 24, 2007

Jabber is for fucking yuppies.
posted by eyeballkid at 10:31 AM on May 24, 2007

HOPE US JABBER
posted by Smart Dalek at 11:17 AM on May 24, 2007

Yeah.... yupppies.

And communists.

And those fucking people who talk on their phones in elevators.

And... uh, People who... Drive! yes, people who drive on the wrong side of the road! Yep that's it. Fuck them too.

2 - 3 weeks? Awesome! I figured it was never coming back.
posted by quin at 11:20 AM on May 24, 2007

Nords.
posted by davejay at 1:04 PM on May 24, 2007

Fuck Jabber. We need to raise the bar for having conversations back to "meeting face to face" to reduce the number of stupid, pretentious, self-important, inane conversations on the Internet.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 2:18 PM on May 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

Jabber is so not punk rock at all!

2-3 weeks? Yay! *marks calendar*
posted by brundlefly at 2:52 PM on May 24, 2007

What's wrong with fucking yuppies? No one said you had to take him/her home to Mom.
posted by deborah at 3:53 PM on May 24, 2007

I actually don't know what's wrong with fucking yuppies. I was just under the impression that any new, useful feature that Matt adds to MeFi is for yuppies.
posted by eyeballkid at 4:03 PM on May 24, 2007

"And what the hell is Jabber."

Jabber T. Hutt.
posted by klangklangston at 5:48 PM on May 24, 2007

Say gang, with a little fast typing and copious refreshing, we could turn this MeTa into a real-time chat application of our own! Heck, I'm sure Mr. Howie won't mind, and if we ask real nice, Ms. Amyn'll make sure none of those fucking yuppies come by to give us a tough time! And Mr. Tex can use these old carpet samples to make us all matching sarongs! C'mon gang, whattaya say?!?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:08 PM on May 24, 2007

Hey, that's Mr. Tex to—

oh wait a second
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:12 PM on May 24, 2007

Jabber is for juppies.
posted by signal at 7:48 PM on May 24, 2007

Feature Presentation by James Surowiecki
posted by acro at 8:21 PM on May 24, 2007

So when is the search feature for metatalk going up, if at all?

oh wait...
posted by shmegegge at 9:25 PM on May 24, 2007

excuse me:

oh wait...
posted by shmegegge at 9:25 PM on May 24, 2007

There was Mattish speculation when we moved to the new hardware that the old hardware might, itself, become dedicated to Jabberish purposes.

You don't need significant hardware for a Jabber instance that's only going to have a room or two and a few dozen visitors at a time. Hell, $40 commodity router running OpenWRT could handle it.

Unless you do something silly, like run the Java version, or run it on an already overloaded server that's also hosting a popular website that heavily customizes every page render for every logged-in visitor. Or, y'know, both of those things.
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:21 PM on May 24, 2007

It's even more hilarious when that popular website that heavily customizes every page render for every logged-in visitor is itself implemented in an intermediary language that compiles to Java classes.
posted by blasdelf at 4:10 AM on May 25, 2007

Haha! I love these nerdly server jokes!
posted by Mister_A at 9:43 AM on May 25, 2007