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Re:Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger pr... by leni536 on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:01AM (#9717913)
>Facebook pulls XMPP

When will this happen? Officially it happened back in April [1], however I'm still logged in and can chat with people through XMPP.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat

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Re:Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger pr... by lucb1e on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:38AM (#9718009)
> Officially it happened back in April [1], however I'm still logged in

It was the same with MSN, it was going to be turned off at some time but they kept it running a few months more. It's chance though: one day it may be just gone.

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Re:Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger pr... by xnyhps on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:46AM (#9718027)
They have already removed the xmpp_login OAuth permission, they could shut down the XMPP server any day. I am wondering why they would remove the permission so long before shutting down the server, maybe to not break every client at the same time?
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Re:Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger pr... by silon3 on Monday June 15, 2015 @01:05PM (#9720608)
Before they announced this, I actually considered getting a Facebook account.
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