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

ejabberd updated

ejabberd was updated from version 19.05 to 20.04. With this version and Conversations since version 2.8.0 audio and video calls (XEP-0215) are possible. From version 2.4.0 Pix-Art also support calls.

Further information: ejabberd 20.04 News

Compliance Report: blabber.im’s compliance result

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

Your blabber.im Team

Videoconferencing with Jitsi Meet

With Jitsi Meet you can hold video conferences and work together on documents or share your screen.

https://meet.blabber.im

• Screen sharing for presentations
• Invite users to a conference using a simple custom URL
• Collaborative editing of documents with Etherpad
• Choose fun URLs for each meeting
• Set a password to your meeting room
• Chat during the videoconference
• Android and iOS App available

We are happy to provide these services, but unfortunately they also cost money. Support our work with a donation.

Your blabber.im Team

blabber.im Web App updated

We have updated converse.js of our Web App to the current version v6.0.0.

Your blabber.im Team