The admin team has temporarily disabled registration of new IM accounts while we migrate the user database. We will enable account registration again after the server migration has been completed (sometime during the week of December 14).
In the meantime don’t forget that you can still register on one of the many other XMPP-enabled services, a selection of which is listed over at xmpp.org.
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