Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away

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Post by jwise0 » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 11:25 PM UTC

Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
developers.facebook.com

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#2

Post by AceJohnny2 » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 11:57 PM UTC

Sigh, yet another nail in the XMPP coffin, at least as far as the general public is concerned.

Remember when we had ICQ, and AIM, and MSN Messenger, and Gadu-Gadu, and we were dreaming of a unified messaging system?

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Post by ipsum2 » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 11:59 PM UTC

Is there any other way to work with Facebook Chat, now that XMPP is gone?

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Post by jwise0 » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:03 AM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #3

Is there any other way to work with Facebook Chat, now that XMPP is gone?

As far as I understand, no. (A request for an API to write a desktop client was the top "most-liked" comment on the Messenger-platform blog post, which is how I found out about this.)

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Post by jkarneges » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:05 AM UTC

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #2

Sigh , yet another nail in the XMPP coffin, at least as far as the general public is concerned. Remember when we had ICQ, and AIM, and MSN Messenger, and Gadu-Gadu, and we were dreaming of a unified messaging system?

Now we have twice as many incompatible services. And still dreaming. :/

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Post by grandalf » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:06 AM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #3

Is there any other way to work with Facebook Chat, now that XMPP is gone?

Directly via the graph api. Simpler than xmpp.

Someone recently posted a graph api chat example.

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Post by kalessin » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:07 AM UTC

That sucks, I really liked using Pidgin/Adium with Facebook chat.

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Post by kshitijl » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:08 AM UTC

A long time ago I worked on the modified ejabberd servers that provide this service. A shame indeed.

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Post by Havoc » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:08 AM UTC

I wish the entire Messenger went away - nothing but an extra FB annoyance forced onto me.

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Post by multiplicity » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:09 AM UTC

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #2

Sigh , yet another nail in the XMPP coffin, at least as far as the general public is concerned. Remember when we had ICQ, and AIM, and MSN Messenger, and Gadu-Gadu, and we were dreaming of a unified messaging system?

I had a unified messaging system, it was called Trillian and Adium, and it was awesome.

Then one day, random people from Gmail started to appear in my Gtalk contact list, and the whole thing became useless and creepy.