Facebook Finally Ends XMPP Support For 3rd Party Chat

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:08AM from the jabber-away dept.

New submitter AcquaCow writes: Facebook has been pushing their Messenger app to all devices, requiring it for chatting with friends and family. It was announced last year that they would be ending their chat API and that the service would end on April 30, 2015. April passed, so did May, but the service remained functional. Finally, as of July 7th, 2015 it has not been possible to connect to chat.facebook.com. This doesn't seem to be an outage at this point. Looks like we have to wait for 3rd party messenger apps to adopt support for Facebook's Platform API v2 to allow new connectivity.

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Re:Facebook destined for AOL Status by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-16 03:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

I'd bet that Zukerberg dreams of being his own ISP that only provides Facebook.
I thought they were already working on that in Africa:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
(Disclaimer: No particular attachment to this news source, just happened to be the first relevant link in ddg)