
You can use your account with any of the dozens of free messaging clients that support the XMPP standard (a list is here). Based on the results of that experiment, we plan to implement automated account creation in early 2018. From August to November of 2017 we ran an experiment with manual account creation (Peter Saint-Andre wrote a brief report in this blog post). There are many other Jabber/XMPP services on the Internet, so you might try to create an account at one of them because automated account creation is currently disabled at the messaging service. is a free messaging service run by volunteers since 1999 and hosted at USSHC in Iowa, USA. Jabber is the original open instant messaging (IM) technology, invented by Jeremie Miller in 1998 and formalized as the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ( XMPP) by the IETF as an Internet Standard for messaging and presence.

Can I chat with people on other messaging services?.I'm behind a firewall can I still log into ?.What is the "Resource" setting for in my client?.I forgot my password! How can I reset it?.What can I do after I create an account?.

In a world dominated by fraudulent propositions it should be noted that Jabber and XMPP remain the primary secure communication channel for a large portion of cybercrime-friendly propositions that I come across to on a daily basis largely relying on Off-The-Record type of functionality.This page answers some frequently-asked questions about the messaging service and Jabber technologies in general.
