Whatever goes up, that’s what we do

Re:Whatever goes up, that’s what we do by gumby on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:25PM (#7484466)

If you don't need the feed you don't even need the web browser since the message system is bog standard jabber.

I do my FB messaging through Messages on my Mac and the FB Messages app on my phone. Works great.

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Re:Whatever goes up, that’s what we do by batiudrami on Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:17PM (#7484912)

Bog standard Jabber except for the changes they make - group messaging, 'seen' notifications, in line attachments, 'stickers' are all proprietary stuff which a standard jabber client doesn't support, unfortunately.

Their Facebook Messenger for Windows client was discontinued earlier this month unfortuntaely, so I'm back using Trillian and boy do I miss the group messaging feature.

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Re:Whatever goes up, that’s what we do by klapinat0r on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:10AM (#7485902)

(genuine question, I don't use FB chat)

How is group messaging different from MUC[1]? The naming group messaging sounds alike, but I don't know the internals of FBs feature.

in line attachments is also possible[2] - I assume you mean sending files, embedding photos in messages and such?

As for seen and stickers I don't know of a XMPP equivalent, but I am curious as to why MUC wasn't used instead of proprietary group messaging.

[1]: XEP-0045, http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html

[2]: html and/or XEP-0231, http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html

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