blabber.im in 2020

The year is drawing to a close and we would like to thank you once again for your active donations:

Thank you for supporting us so diligently and we reached the goal already at the end of November!
Fundraising has reopened and we are looking forward to 2021.

We have prepared a few figures for you for the current year:

XMPP Traffic: 3.653 GB
http_uploads per month: 22.500 avg.
Registered users: 24.890
Active users: 4.850 avg.
Connected Clients: 2.000 avg.
Chat rooms: 2.421

We wish you a happy new year 2021, here’s to popping the corks 😉

Your blabber.im Team

Update Guide

There are often questions how to update the Pix-Art Messenger to blabber.im, we want to give you an overview.

Play Store:
The Pix-Art Messenger is no longer in the Google Play Store since October 31st, 2020! read more…
A migration to blabber.im is necessary! Please follow the Tutorial.

F-Droid:
An update via the F-Droid Store is possible without problems. If you want to install the Git version, follow the migration tutorial.

Git:
An update is possible, just use the integrated updater or download it from Git.

Your blabber.im Team

blabber.im v3.0.0 available

The first final blabber.im version 3.0.0 is available for download. It will take some time until the version is available in the Google Play Store and F-Droid Store.

You are welcome to give us feedback in the chat room blabber@conference.blabber.im.

Your blabber.im Team

Public group chat history available in HTML

From now group chat (MUC) administrators can configure their public rooms and activate

“Enable logging“

Once this option is enabled, a group chat history is available on the Web.
The group chat history is linked in the footer menu (MUC logs).

Group chat history: https://muclogs.blabber.im

NOTE: History buttons are automatically displayed in the Chat Room Search Engine: search.jabber.network

Your blabber.im Team

First blabber.im Beta Version available

The first blabber.in version 3.0.0 beta_(2020-11-07) is available for download.

• Pix-Art Messenger is now blabber.im
• rework missed call notifications (PAM)
• UI improvements (PAM)
• show backups from other messengers (PAM)
• automatically remove URL tracking parameters for sent/received links
• search individual conversations
• notify user if message delivery fails
• remember display names (nicks) from Quicksy users across restarts
• add button to start Orbot (Tor) from notification if necessary
• handle GPX files
• bug fixes

UPDATE 2020-11-11: blabber.im is now available for download as Early Access in the Google Play Store.

You are welcome to give us feedback in the chat room blabber@conference.blabber.im.

Your blabber.im Team

How Pix-Art Messenger disappeared from the Google Play Store

The Pix-Art Messenger is no longer available in the Google Play Store since 31 October 2020!

Google sent us an email that evening informing us that the App Pix-Art Messenger was infringing trademarks of the company PicsArt, Inc. (picsart.com).

The app was immediately removed from the store by Google. It is no longer possible to use the App-ID de.pixart.messenger. Google does not deviate from their position and PicsArt, Inc. does not respond to any emails from us.
The PixArt Gallery is also affected and expresses itself in a blog: https://pixart.gallery/pixart-on-google-play

We will release the app under the name blabber.im again in the Google Play Store, F-Droid and Git!

Google Play Store users:

All Google Play Store Pix-Art Messenger users must reinstall the blabber.im app and migrate their account using the backup feature.

We describe the account migration in detail here:
https://blabber.im/en/quick-start/migration-pixart-blabber/

F-Droid and Git users:

F-Droid and Git users will receive an update to blabber.im with the old App-ID in the usual way.

Your blabber.im Team

Pix-Art Messenger turns into blabber.im

The cooperation between the two projects blabber.im and Pix-Art Messenger will be further expanded in November 2020.

Until now blabber.im was only the default server in Pix-Art Messenger.
In the future the Android app Pix-Art Messenger will be continued under the name blabber.im.

What you can expect:

• Range of functions remains the same
• Support chat rooms are merged
• Colors and logos are adapted to blabber.im
• App is still available for free in the Google Play Store, F-Droid Store and Git
• Update Guide

Your blabber.im Team

Important: How Pix-Art Messenger disappeared from the Google Play Store

IPv6 has been enabled

From now is blabber.im also available in the IPv6 network. This step was long overdue and necessary.

$ host -t SRV _xmpp-client._tcp.blabber.im
_xmpp-client._tcp.blabber.im has SRV record 5 5 5222 erebos.xmpp.blabber.im.
_xmpp-client._tcp.blabber.im has SRV record 15 5 443 erebos.xmpp.blabber.im.
_xmpp-client._tcp.blabber.im has SRV record 5 5 5222 tartaros.xmpp.blabber.im.
_xmpp-client._tcp.blabber.im has SRV record 15 5 443 tartaros.xmpp.blabber.im.

$ host tartaros.xmpp.blabber.im
tartaros.xmpp.blabber.im has address 78.46.151.59
tartaros.xmpp.blabber.im has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:141:316d::59

$ host erebos.xmpp.blabber.im
erebos.xmpp.blabber.im has address 5.9.68.176
erebos.xmpp.blabber.im has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:161:73b0::176

Many thanks to nuron for the reminder!

Your blabber.im Team

“I have moved!” Link

We offer a link for the move to Jabber/XMPP and want to help make the change easier.
The link can be stored together with a text in the status of the old messenger or in an autoresponder app.

https://blabber.im/en/+username

Just write your username after the + sign, it will automatically be displayed on the “I have moved! page.

Example texts

On this page we have sample texts in German and English. You are welcome to send us further texts.
The page is linked in the footer menu.

Info: Everything after + is just free text for the username, there is no check for an existing account!

We are happy to run blabber.im, but unfortunately it also costs money. Support our work with a donation.

Your blabber.im Team

Jitsi Meet with live streaming

meet.blabber.im was updated to the latest version stable-4548-1.

YouTube live streaming has also been activated. The moderator can start streaming to YouTube in the menu at the bottom right.
A guide to the required streaming ID is linked under the menu item.

This is very useful if you want to reach a larger audience. For example, a few people can talk to each other and this can be streamed live to YouTube, where thousands of people can watch.

We are happy to run blabber.im, but unfortunately it also costs money. Support our work with a donation.

Your blabber.im Team