Jabberd providing DW account authentication

[thorfinn]

Title:
Jabberd providing DW account authentication

Area:
jabber

Summary:
Dreamwidth could run a jabberd, allowing people with jabber IM clients to auth using DW credentials and then IM each other.

Description:

There is a previous suggestion for a DW jabber bot at http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/10310.html

This suggestion is actually the pre-requisite to that.

Dreamwidth could run a jabberd, allowing people to authenticate using their DW credentials, automatically providing your "Subscribed" circle as a jabber friends list, and using your "Access" circle to allow people to see your online presence.

There's no need for DW to particularly support or integrate anything client-wise, any "Jabber/XMPP" capable IM client can simply connect and auth and then do-the-right thing from there.

This should not be a particularly resource heavy service to set up and run, so it could easily be an all-users feature.

Poll #1428 Jabberd providing DW account authentication

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 34

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Should be implemented as-is.
16 (47.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
16 (47.1%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Comments

[katieastrophe]

With changes: there are *so* *many* IM services out there as it is - I do not need, nor am I interested in yet another. If people really want to use Jabber, there is GoogleTalk or Jabber itself or a million others. *However* - I really like the having notifications IM'd to me on LJ. Unfortunately, the clusterfuck of people I was interested in the journals of, but didn't care to have added to my IM clients, put me off ever using it.

I'd like to see DW use a Jabber service, but as an extra method of providing notifications, not an instant messaging service. If users want to IM each other, they can say "hey, let's exchange MSN/AIM/Y!/Google/Jabber/Skype/whatever details".

[andrewducker]

The whole point of Jabber is that it's federated - no server is more important than any other. If people want to be able to use their @dreamwidth.org identity for chatting on Jabber then that seems like a useful service to provide.

[katieastrophe]

I'm aware of this. My point was rather of that there a /lots/ of options already, and I don't personally see the need for yet another (as I said, if people want to use Jabber, there are plenty of free services available for them to do so).

[thorfinn]

It's the convenience of being able to automatically be IMing with DW friends that's quite nice. I have a lot of different IM accounts, and one of the ones that gets a lot of use is my LJ Jabber ID, because I don't actually have a lot of those people on other IM systems. Same with DW.