If you have trouble connecting to the jabber room with your gmail account, try setting up an account on one of the other jabber services. Occasionally has issues communicating with gmail accounts. Most clients expect the requested user ID to be in form You may need to try several different usernames to find one that has not already been used.Īs of 26 Feb. Most jabber clients will allow you to register a new ID on a specific server, such as or jabber.dk. If you don't use one of the services above you'll need to register for one. You may be surprised to know you already have a jabber ID! All Gmail and LiveJournal users have jabber IDs just from having an account with those services. Different clients work better for different people's setups, or suit different people's styles better. You may also want transports so you can talk to friends on other IM (Instant Messaging) networks like AIM, MSN, ICQ or Yahoo. Different clients have different capacities: check yours does groupchat so you can join the DP groupchat. It is free and is available from the Apple App Storeįor additional clients see.

Talkonaut - This is the only client I've run into that has conference support as well as individual chats.Fire - no longer maintained, consider Adium or iChat instead.Adium - uses the same library as Pidgin.iChat AV - bundled free with the system software on every MacOS X system.Empathy is now the default client for Ubuntu.Kopete is available on various Linux distributions.Exodus - original Jabber client, successor to WinJab.Psi - a popular PC client among DPers (see also Psi Setup Instructions).Join a groupchat to chat with the larger DP community.Add a person to chat with someone one-on-one.Set it up with your Jabber ID either from an existing service or register for a new ID.Download a Jabber program (ie: client) for your platform.Read this article as a good introduction.

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