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Facebook Finally Ends XMPP Support For 3rd Party Chat

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Facebook destined for AOL Status by sycodon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook is following the same path as AOL.

    In their megalomaniac desire to be all things and control all things, they are walling themselves into an environment with half assed software, surveillance, ads, and privacy violations.

    Just a matter of time.

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    1. Re:Facebook destined for AOL Status by sycodon · · Score: 3, Informative

      Technically, yes.

      But philosophically they are the same. They want people to live in Facebook. Get their news from there, make appointments, exchange messages (emails) etc. I'd bet that Zukerberg dreams of being his own ISP that only provides Facebook.

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    2. Re:Facebook destined for AOL Status by Anonymous Coward · · 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)

  2. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because i'm connected to Facebook chat via Gimp right now...

    1. Re:Really? by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's cool, because I've been signed into Google Hangouts using MS Paint now all day.

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  3. Use purple-facebook by sombragris · · Score: 5, Informative

    In libpurple (read: Pidgin and other apps that might use it for messaging) you can connect via purple-facebook, which is a Facebook chat protocol plugin. There are still some glitches but it's definitely usable.

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  4. Re:But is v2 useful for Chat? by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who says they intend it to be useful replacement?

    Facebook wants everybody to run their application so they can mine all your fucking data.

    The don't give a crap about 3rd part clients, they care about ads and analytics.

    Seriously, stop expecting benevolence from Facebook. They're greedy bastards, nothing more. They're not going to do a damned thing which doesn't maximize their bottom line.

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