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by SamWhited 593 days ago
What servers don't have good defaults these days, and what clients need any configuration at all beyond the username and password? I don't think this is true.

Also Snikket meets your Docker requirements if you're into containers.
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shadowgovt 593 days ago
Snikket looks good.

The last time I tried to get jabberd set up on an Ubuntu install, the port-opening and config became a nightmare and induced me to give up. No good signal on why it wasn't working.

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SamWhited 593 days ago
oh interesting, fair enough; I didn't know jabberd still existed! FWIW, Prosody, Ejabberd, OpenFire, etc. all mostly have sane defaults for a basic chat system (both in terms of performance and features). They won't be an exact match of course, but all the basic stuff should be there.
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