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Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by sparky »

thwarted wrote: post #33
rmorrison wrote: post #30

It'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.

I think it was jwz who said something like "every program expands until it can read email" (I'm sure I'm butchering it).

Not butchering it at all, really: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -- Jamie Zawinski

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by stilist »

presto10 wrote: post #5

iChat: 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.

I’m chatting with someone who hasn’t set a username, and it shows in iChat as uUSERNUMBER@chat.facebook.com. Might work on both sides.

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by hachiya »

presto10 wrote: post #5

iChat: 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.

BitlBee:

  account add jabber FACEBOOK_USERNAME@chat.facebook.com FACEBOOK_PASS
  account list
  account add 2 (or whatever number the above list shows is Facebook)
  # you'll need to do a /whois on your friends and rename them: 
  rename u393222111 John
  rename u134322433 Bob

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

#44

Post by yurifury »

hachiya wrote: post #43
presto10 wrote: post #5

iChat: 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.

BitlBee: account add jabber FACEBOOK_USERNAME@chat.facebook.com FACEBOOK_PASS account list account add 2 (or whatever number the above list shows is Facebook) # you'll need to do a /whois on your friends and rename them: rename u393222111 John rename u134322433 Bob

Thank you very much.

The renaming is fairly annoying, can anyone think of a way to auto-name users?

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by hachiya »

yurifury wrote: post #44
hachiya wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitlBee: account add jabber FACEBOOK_USERNAME@chat.facebook.com FACEBOOK_PASS account list account add 2 (or whatever number the above list shows is Facebook) # you'll need to do a /whois on your friends and rename them: rename u393222111 John rename u134322433 Bob

Thank you very much. The renaming is fairly annoying, can anyone think of a way to auto-name users?

A script to do /whois the first time, and rename the nick to the shown username would work.

Here's one: http://a.ngus.net/bitlbee_rename.pl

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by blasdel »

mattwdelong wrote: post #34

I thought it would be a more obvious question, but how do you think this will affect the other big messenger clients/protocols? MSN/YIM/AIM/GTalk ? I already noticed a trend in which a large portion of my friends will use facebook chat now and not even bother to login to MSN Messenger (which is the most popular client in my geographical area).

Google could integrate it in the gmail gchat implementation the same way they do AIM -- just log into multiple accounts instead of federating.

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by graywh »

sparky wrote: post #41
thwarted wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it was jwz who said something like "every program expands until it can read email" (I'm sure I'm butchering it).

Not butchering it at all, really: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -- Jamie Zawinski

So is an update needed? s/read mail/\0 and\/or chat/
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