XMPP Service Operators - 2021-08-27

is there something going on in China? I got many registrations from chinese/taiwanese IP blocks in the last few days...

lol

war

ij, I don't know about the past few days, but in recent weeks the Chinese government has been attacking tech companies from various angles. WeChat closed new sign-ups for a while. It could be related to that.

china is threatening japan to nuke it with nuclear bombs if they defend taiwan from their invasion

just the normal CCP stuff

Trbl, off-topic

well he asked...

at least those accounts doesn’t seem to be typical bots, although my first reaction was to ban chinese IPs…

ij: I've got a lot of new Chinese users too. Not many speak English but we've had some Google-assisted chats and they definitely seem to be legit users.

mike, did you ask what made them using XMPP? Or more likely what was their reason for XMPP... I still find it strange that there seems to be such an interest in XMPP in China... not complaining, just wondering...

Nah, Google translate spent seem quite useful enough to get a semi complex thing like that across. I might give a shout out, I'm bound to know someone who speaks Chinese enough to get into this.

A lot of people I work with here in the US use WeChat for sourcing electronics components. I feel like kind of a ghoul for saying this in the sort of context presented above, but if there is any sign that people may be starting to migrate from WeChat to XMPP..., that is a fairly influential userbase.

Would be interesting to plot the number of registrations over time....

Yeah I haven't really separated out any meaningful stats but just looking at new user registration numbers they're significantly up on one of my servers, and aside from the few usernames that explicitly use Chinese characters, they definitely have that kind of look of being Chinese names. I could mine the logs a bit but meh, I've got other stuff to do heh.

Will see if the concurrent user count stays up over a week or so, or if this is just a passing thing.

Is there software for charting this stuff?

rozzin, Prosody has https://modules.prosody.im/mod_measure_registration.html

You can use prometheus or any other such tool afterwards to generate a graph.