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Re:Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away by MBlume on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @08:43PM (#9267077)
Do we know if Adium/pidgin are likely to update to use that API, or is it too early to say?
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Re:Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away by baudehlo on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @08:57PM (#9267139)
Someone will build it. But it still just adds another proprietary API to the arsenal. Ugh.

I echo other sentiments here: what exactly is broken about XMPP that companies keep moving away?

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Re:Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away by timonovici on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @09:53PM (#9267353)
Somebody already said it: while using the chat through a different client than their web chat, you're not looking at their ads, you're not installing their proprietary mobile app, and so on.
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