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Re:Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off by gcr on Friday May 24, 2013 @10:36PM (#5766152)
There was a time (maybe it's still possible) when Facebook Chat used XMPP, which means you could use a client like bitlbee or pdigin to connect.
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Re:Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off by inerte on Friday May 24, 2013 @11:11PM (#5766223)
It's still possible. I used pidgin today for Facebook Chat.
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Re:Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off by rdl on Saturday May 25, 2013 @02:31AM (#5766548)
It was never very stable.
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Re:Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off by plus9z on Sunday May 26, 2013 @02:48AM (#5770288)
Define stable. Do you mean it crashes? or that it drops out once in a while? Because I use Facebook over XMPP and I've never actually experienced any problems.
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Re:Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off by rdl on Sunday May 26, 2013 @11:26AM (#5771314)
It dropped a lot when I tried using it, and the "in browser and Adium and a Pidgin" combination was super unstable -- caused it to crash a lot more. It may have improved, but I couldn't get it to stay connected more than 15 minutes. This was about 2 years ago maybe?
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