LJ Talk

LJ Talk is LiveJournal's new instant messaging system based on Jabber. Users can log in with any IM client that supports Jabber with an id of

exampleusername@livejournal.com

And their LiveJournal password. SSL is currently off and the port is 5222. LJ Talk will eventually be hooked into ESN, enabling users to receive notifications over IM.

Clients that support LJ Talk include:


 * Gizmo Project for LJ Talk -- LJ branded client
 * Gaim
 * Kopete
 * Adium
 * iChat
 * Pandion
 * Miranda
 * Trillian Pro

But perhaps the easiest way for the curious to test out LJ Talk is to log in using Meebo (a web-based IM client).

The server being developed by LiveJournal for all of this is DJabberd.

Timeline
On July 7, 2006, the service was released in an alpha/beta state. The original page about it is here.

On October 12, 2006, the service was officially released to all users. The recommended client for use with this service is a special LiveJournal-branded version of the Gizmo Project, currently available on Mac OS X and Windows; a Linux client is reportedly in the works. The release added a Jabber ID field to the Contact Info area of the Profile page that in the form of. This looks a lot like an email address, and for paid users who set up their livejournal.com email forwarding, it is a valid email. This field defaulted to public unless the contact info section of the user's Profile was set to friends-only. It was also shown with no manipulation to defend against spambots from harvesting addresses. An option to remove this Jabber ID line without making all contact information friends only was not live at the time of release, but is planned.

In the future, LJ Talk will be integrated with ESN, allowing users to receive notifications over IM.

Service or Protocol

 * Select Jabber

Screen Name/Username Only

 * Enter your LJ username @livejournal.com into the screen name/username field

Screen Name/Username and Server

 * Enter your LJ username into the screen name/username field
 * Enter  into the server field

Gizmo Project for LJ Talk

 * Account name: Your LiveJournal username
 * Password: Your LiveJournal password

JWChat.org
Since this is a third-party website, we encourage you to change your password while you are using their service. If you are uncomfortable with giving your password to another website, we encourage you to use an alternate method.
 * Server:
 * Username: Your LiveJournal username
 * Password: Your LiveJournal password

Miranda

 * Options
 * Network
 * Jabber
 * Username: Your LiveJournal username
 * Password: Your LiveJournal password
 * Login server:

Pandion

 * Address: Your LiveJournal username @livejournal.com

LJ Bot (Frank)
You can interact with frank on LJ Talk. If you do not see him on your list, you can add him by adding the Jabber ID of  to your list.

There are several commands that he will react to:

ASL or A/S/L
6/male/san francisco/goat. i guess that's a/s/l/species.

HELLO or HEY or HI or LO or SUP or YO
hello hey hi yo

HELP
To post to your journal, message me with "post: " and some text. To use a subject, do: "post: [Your Subject] Your post...."

POST
Post to your LiveJournal.

The default subject is: Posted using LJ Talk

As of this edit, you cannot currently post to your LiveJournal from a non-@livejournal.com Jabber address. You cannot post to a community account. You cannot specify a security level for your post. It will post to the LiveJournal account that you are logged into LJ Talk as and it will use the default security of your journal. You can change the default security by using a console command.

The following will yield an entry with the subject of "Posted using LJ Talk" and entry text of "Entry text." POST: Entry text.

The following will yield an entry with the subject of "Subject" and entry text of "Entry text." POST: [Subject] Entry text.

If you enter a command that frank does not understand, he will say "I don't know what that means. I'm actually pretty stupid.  Type 'help' for help."