Hello Mathias, Hello all, thank god - someone has taken this into his own hands and did something to change the current situation. Thank you, Mathias! I really hope that this is helping the users and the admins, at least a bit. To populate the list, I entered our 8 domains we run at jabber.hot-chilli.net and I hope that every server admin is putting his server into the list, too.
The question remains how popular the lists of Mathias and Naw will be/get. For sure everybody will look at xmpp.org first before checking Google. So my additional request would be to completly wipe the xmpp.org list and simply link to other (and first of all maintained) lists like the two named above. As Mathias wrote, and there is nothing more to add, the xmpp.org list ist just unusable in its current state. The date shown is mostly outdated, it is very hard or even impossible to get current data changed, new data added or old data deleted. BTW: A lot of XMPP clients like Gajim and Miranda show a list of public XMPP servers when creating a new XMPP account. For Gajim these server come out of a static XML file *outch*, for Miranda I don't know. It looks like these lists might be based on the server list of xmpp.org. So we should also talk about this issue and try to change it. Cheers, Martin
