Re: [orca-list] accessible Facebook messenger

[Magdalen Berns <m berns thismagpie com>]

Maybe try Adium if pidgin is having problems and nobody has done so yet already?[1]

I have no idea what the accessibility is like for adium and could be facing the same compatibility problem described since I haven't access to it at the moment to check it myself at the moment, but that said, last time I used it the Facebook messenger (probably around a month or so ago) it seemed to be working fine, so it could be worth a shout! From a privacy perspective it is meant to be alright as well (as long as users in messaging either side are using it the right way)

[1] https://adium.im

Magdalen

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:

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the xmpp facebook for pidgin does not work at all, not for anyone I have heard of anymore.
Bitlbee has a new plugin made by the same person who makes the pidgin plugin. I have been having successful connections now again with the
purple-facebook plugin, see a post from a while back regarding a repo for ubuntu and friends, and it's in the arch linux aur.
These plug-ins use the FB mobile api it seems as facebook has disabled the good support they had for stand alone desktop apps.



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  Peter Vágner wrote:
Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:11:06PM +0200

>    Hello,
>
>    Facebook has annouced several ways that they are about to discontinue
>    their XMPP support. There are some client applications where this may work
>    e.g. it is still working for me when using Thunderbird to access facebook
>    chat and it is also working for my friend using instantbird. But there is
>    a facebook-purple at [1]https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook This
>    provides access to facebook for pidgin and other purple based messengers.
>    I am not yet using it, some people find it very usefull and some others
>    experience issues with it.
>
>    I'm suggesting you to try it out, certainly it might work better with
>    pidgin than accessing facebook using pidgin XMPP protocol plugin.
>
>    greetings
>
>    Peter
>
>    Dňa 29.8.2015 11:53 používateľ "Pavel Vlček" <[2]vlcekpavel93 gmail com>
>    napísal:
>
>      Hi all,
>      when I started using Linux, I used Pidgin messenger for Icq, and
>      FaceBook. Now when I connect to Facebook, I never get a list of my
>      friends and I can not chat. But I am online, because I can change my
>      status without errors. Can you recommend some working accessible
>      alternative? I know Empathy, but I do not like it. I have pidgin
>      0.10.9, which is outdated, but I do not know, how to build newer
>      version (0.10.11) from source. I use xmpp for connectiong to Facebook.
>      Thanks,
>      Pavel V
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