[catern]

>Setting it up requires pretty deep knowledge

Not even remotely true! Prosody on Debian works out of the box, including federation. You just have to configure the domain name.

It's not hard to set up an XMPP server. It's hard to set up Ejabberd. Ejabberd is not the only XMPP server. Prosody is very easy to set up.

Honestly, people, think before you speak...

[scrollaway]

> Honestly, people, think before you speak...

I didn't just make this up on the spot, I've been dealing with these issues for years. So yes, I've thought about them a lot.

I used to run a prosody server on my home box. It is great software and a fantastic daemon compared to ejabberd (edit: Configuration-wise that is) but fat lot of good that does if you don't know what XEPs to set up when dealing with other servers. I shut it down because it was pretty much useless and I wasn't able to talk to my gtalk buddies from it anymore.

[catern]

> fat lot of good that does if you don't know what XEPs to set up when dealing with other servers.

I have no idea what XEPs to set up when dealing with other servers. I did not have to set up any such thing. Like I said, federation (server to server communication) works out of the box, at least on Debian.

[sanderjd]

Your comment is informative, but the last sentence is unnecessary and inflammatory.

[catern]

You're right. I would delete it, but it's past the edit deadline.

[PhasmaFelis]

> Honestly, people, think before you speak...

Was that really necessary?

[dorfsmay]

I've been using OpenFire, no problem there either.

I had never heard of Prosody, any major difference cons/pros between the two?