Forum Suggestion: enable Jabber notifications?

[Seraphwolf]

phpBB3 has Jabber notification capabilities - would it be possible to enable them for the CS forum?

Basically Jabber notifications on the forum would work like email notifications, but instead of emailing you when a thread that you subscribed to has been posted to, you get a PM, etc, it will send you an online message in your chat client (with G-talk/jabber capability) notifying you, even sending you offline messages. A friend of mine has recently managed to set it up on another phpBB3 forum and it's so convenient and works great (It's great for her too because account activation requests get forwarded to her in-chat so she can deal with them immediately.).

Would this be waaay too much hassle to implement/support here/strain servers and what not? Or worth the challenge ;D?

Thanks for reading :).

[Nick]

Apart from Google Talk's Jabber server (which phpBB does not support) I'm not sure which public Jabber gateways would be willing to handle our notification volume (about 20,000 messages/day) if lots of people started using Jabber on their accounts. We might be able to run our own Jabber server.

[Seraphwolf]

I'm being told that phpBB does GTalk with a patch. My friend did that, then rerouted stuff through her server because the webhost is terrible, she says it's working fine. Although there's around 2% of active users on that forum that use the service (with a much smaller community) so it might be waaay too much hassle for what it's worth, or like you say a large volume of messages straining things if there's a big take up. Hmm.
Thanks for getting back to me regardless though!