I received the following notice in my pidgin client today. Can anyone else verify this? I can't see reference to it anywhere else.

On May 9th, 2017 we will be shutting down our dukgo.com XMPP service. Thanks for your continued support over the previous years.

We apologize for the historical service uptime and lack of full-featured support. Given our strict privacy policy, we didn't want to introduce any features that might compromise anonymity, but as a result, we received continual abuse that led to our uptime issues, and ultimately the decision to retire the service.

For alternative XMPP servers check out https://www.cryptoparty.in/connect/contact/jabber and https://gultsch.de/compliance_ranked.html

The DuckDuckGo Team