I remember that roughly around the time Google declared that they were deactivating XMPP federation, I was suddenly unable to make -IIRC- s2s connections between Google Talk and my XMPP server, and message delivery failed 100% of the time. This situation persisted for <i>quite</i> a while (weeks? months?), and I -having noone to talk to- shut down my server.<p>Google <i>might</i> have changed their mind and quietly started federating again. I haven&#x27;t checked in <i>ages</i>. Guess I have another project to complete this weekend. :)