It appears LiveJournal is no longer functional for WSHR's purpose.
According to www.livejournal.com "LJ Talk is no longer supported. A full shutdown took place on April 10, 2023". Other service providers can be found here -> https://providers.xmpp.net/#providers. ... Jabbers.one ... it seems to work fine. So there are alternatives. I confess it has been 9 years since I last used gmail for logging in with WSHR. I tried just now and it failed with network error. So it looks like gmail might also have changed and prevents conversing via WSHR.