So this is how they make it a platform? :)
Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
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Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#12I wish the entire Messenger went away - nothing but an extra FB annoyance forced onto me.
Turn off chat. Nothing is forced onto you.
Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#13Alternative to your desktop client.
Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#14Considering that they never opened it to federation, does it even matter?
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#15Welp, time to register an account on jabber.org
I don't really understand why they took the XMPP API to such lengths (it even displayed OTR messages as [encrypted message], that's not really the kind of thing that comes to mind instantly when I think about an XMPP API) to finally deprecate it. Pidgin will probably see a sudden surge of bug reports.
Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#16Considering that they never opened it to federation, does it even matter?
Desktop XMPP clients can no longer be used to chat on FB. That matters to me.
Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#17Welp, time to register an account on jabber.org I don't really understand why they took the XMPP API to such lengths (it even displayed OTR messages as [encrypted message], that's not really the kind of thing that comes to mind instantly when I think about an XMPP API) to finally deprecate it. Pidgin will probably see a sudden surge of bug reports.
> I don't really understand why they took the XMPP API to such lengths (it even displayed OTR messages as [encrypted message], that's not really the kind of thing that comes to mind instantly when I think about an XMPP API) to finally deprecate it.
Business strategies and decisions shift constantly.
Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#18Sigh , 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?
> Remember when we had ICQ, and AIM, and MSN Messenger, and Gadu-Gadu, and we were dreaming of a unified messaging system?
We'll always have SMS.
Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#19Sigh , 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?
It's worth noting that XMPP was based on XML. New hotness is JSON, or maybe even compressed binary protocols.
Re: Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away
#20Sigh , 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?
> Remember when we had ICQ, and AIM, and MSN Messenger, and Gadu-Gadu, and we were dreaming of a unified messaging system? We'll always have SMS.
SMS? Or SMS, iChat, Hangouts, Whatsapp, and the thousands of others that use your SMS number as username? Some (iChat, Hangouts) even steal your SMSs and place them on proprietary networks; If you switch devices from iPhone to Android or vice-versa, messages get lost.