My friend lists correspond to privacy settings, not human-friendly groups (just photos, nothing, professional contacts). They should divorce friend lists from chat groups.
Facebook Chat supports Jabber now
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#22My friend lists correspond to privacy settings, not human-friendly groups (just photos, nothing, professional contacts). They should divorce friend lists from chat groups.
I'm pretty sure that Group:Person is a many-to-many relationship.
I have friends in multiple groups.
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#23The Pidgin instructions are incorrect. The "Local Alias" field should be set to your name, not "Facebook Chat", as this field controls what name is printed next to your messages in your local chat window. Unless your name is actually "Facebook Chat", of course.
What instructions? I couldn't find any, and so I can't authenticate. In particular, I have no idea what the correct server would be.
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#24iChat: Add new account in Preferences, select type Jabber, enter username " @chat.facebook.com" (where username is selected in Facebook settings, and you need to logout from Facebook after that change). For password use Facebook password.
Same idea for pidgin:
New account, select XMPP as protocol. Username is your username (which is your slug if you have a custom url. So I'm facebook.com/daniel.jackoway, my username is daniel.jackoway). Domain is chat.facebook.com. Password is your password. Only gotcha is that you then have to go to the "Advanced" tab and uncheck "Require SSL/TLS".
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#25wow. Facebook will now know when, where and how long you are online.
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#26Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now
#27iChat: Add new account in Preferences, select type Jabber, enter username " @chat.facebook.com" (where username is selected in Facebook settings, and you need to logout from Facebook after that change). For password use Facebook password.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This includes the login I guess...
can someone confirm that login info is sent in the clear? that's pretty terrible.
yep. they could have at least supported SASL to have the login info encrypted and then transport the rest of the stream unencrypted, but they did not.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
This includes the login I guess...
can someone confirm that login info is sent in the clear? that's pretty terrible.
They claim they're using DIGEST-MD5, so not quite plaintext, but a broken hash algorithm
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#30It's annoying that once software products become extremely popular, the developers/companies often start adding features in an attempt to be everything for everyone. This in turn makes the software unusable, because the developers are too overloaded to properly maintain their once core business. Eventually it gets replaced by a new product, and the cycle repeats itself.