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   morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 04:45:04 JST morph

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   @yvan I had ejabberd for years without troubles. The last time I wanted to install ejabberd on a new server it failed. Trouble with SSL certs and whatever else. Motivation to dig deeper was missing as sadly almost no contacts use XMPP anymore. I now got Metronome (IIRC a Prosody fork?). It runs like a black box without any maintainance. Got file upload not working though, but doesn't matter.

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     Yvan (yvan@toot.ale.gd)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 04:45:06 JST Yvan

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     Install #eJabberd they say, it'll be easy they* say!!

     We can send messages to each other using #XMPP desktop clients or the converse.js web client I've set up at a URL, but been bashing my head against file/image uploads for a couple of hours now. Was some funky systemd/filesystem protection shit going on and I fixed and now I don't have an error about file permissions... instead the whole thing just silently fails. 🤣

     * Nobody really said this, except for the voices in my head... they're always telling me to do stuff, that it'll be easy... they're liars

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     Yvan (yvan@toot.ale.gd)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 04:45:07 JST Yvan

     A key problem with installing software that's more than a couple of years old these days:

     1) It's open source software, so the documentation sucks
     2) Most search results are 5+ year old content and don't work for the current release

     Yes, I know how to do search time controls in search engines. It can help a little, or often just results in no answers at all (which of course isn't necessarily worse than wrong answers, lol.)

     In this case the software in question is eJabberd... and I'm wondering if the shit documentation is a deliberate ploy to encourage people to use the attached commercial entity project owner's consultancy or hosting services.