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Btw, the transfer did not happen because Gandi takes 72 hours to remove the transfer lock "to prevent domains theft" [sic!].

The 72 hours aren't over yet, but once they are, we'll proceed.

We will transfer the jabber.network domain to another registrar on Saturday, because Gandi turned into a pile of cutthroats.

We hope that things will run smoothly, but if you experience a downtime which smells roughly like a DNS issue over the weekend, that's why.

Another bit you may have noticed, especially if you visit the home page regularly, is that avatars now always load correctly.

The old website had a weird fun Python runtime type error which occurred sometimes when the browser had an avatar in the cache already.

Because we deleted the almost 10k lines of Python code and replaced it with Rust, that can't happen anymore \o/.

(Also, it's now faster and less memory use, which is nice.)

The "search by language" feature is also available via our API. Apps such as #Conversations and #Gajim already support it automatically.

You can now add hashtags to your #xmpp / #jabber channels on search.jabber.network! Just add a series of hashtags to the end of your channel's description.

Note that we maintain an allowlist of tags here: https://search.jabber.network/tags/ Tags which are not on that list are ignored.

Suggest new tags we should add/allow in the replies to this thread!

This release also marks the implementation of a feature people have been asking since forever: Search #xmpp / #jabber channels by language. You can now do that!

To search for all channels in french, you could type "lang:fr" in the search bar. Like this: https://search.jabber.network/search?q=lang%3Afr

"lang:foo" can be combined with other search terms.

More information on how to search by language is found in the FAQ: https://search.jabber.network/docs/faq

🥳 Big news! While half of Europe is hanging out in Hamburg at 38c3, we got bored and accidentally our web frontend.

It comes with a bunch of new features, which we'll post about in the next couple hours and days, but the one which will probably be most obvious is that we now feature a built-in, automatic dark mode based on your browser / OS preferences 🌙 .

Check it out at https://search.jabber.network !