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tuxracer on May 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP

Federation was turned off temporarily to fix an exploit then turned back on. I guess it's moot now.

dwdbah on May 16, 2013 [–]

Right - there was a lot of noise about federation being turned off, although it never was.

1) Subscription requests to/from other domains were blocked.

2) Only for a short period (about a month, tops).

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