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Question from myself: how people can subscribe on a Jabber node?

Unfortunately this plugin is rather a "proof of concept" plugin as long as there is no Jabber client allowing users to easily subscribe (and configure their subscription) to xmpp pubsub nodes. I could use Gajim to subscribe to nodes though, but I had much difficulty to "browse" nodes with it, and it is impossible to create a node (at least I have not found). As for Psi, I could not do any subscription at all.

The only mean for the time being is to use a client with a XML console (the only ones I know with such a console are Gajim, Psi, and Sameplace with an official plugin) and send this raw XML subscription (which is indeed a non very user-friendly method, I must admit).

It would be nice if people could implement soon a node subscription feature in their favorite Jabber client (I will probably try to do so myself as a next step) and also a relation in their favorite web-browser to Jabber links (so that they could have their Jabber client propose them to subscribe and configure a node just by clicking on a link on their browser). Hopefully then I will update this readme to advice such Jabber client and web browser! :-)

From myself: which jabber server has a good pubsub implementation?

I am using ejabberd 2.0 and 2.0.1 for my own, but it is pretty flawed on many ways. Especially it is impossible to configure your subscription to a node. What a shame! :-( Anyway it is sufficient basically for the proof of concept, but probably not for long-term (even mid-term) real use.

I don't know sufficiently others server softwares to give an opinion about them. But I was told Openfire should have soon a pretty good PubSub support. I am still waiting to test it though.

From myself: which Jabber client could I advice to visitors of my website?

As explained, there are few, if none, clients with good PubSub support. This is why I told this plugin is more a proof of concept than an useful one. But hopefully, soon it will be better!

From myself: but no browser can detect XMPP autodiscovery links. What are they for?!

I am writting a small Firefox plugin for this. Soon more infos!

Do you like to ask questions to yourself? Do you feel lonely?

Maybe. ;-)