Facebook chat through Pidgin!

BigglesPiP · 15 Feb 2010 at 04:13

Hmm, so their chat protocol is growing up.

No consequence to me though, I don't have a facebook account.

shauncr91 · 15 Feb 2010 at 09:24

Greenlizard0 said:
For those that are using it with Trillian - are you finding that random messages about people writing on your wall pop up? But then my emails and wall appear empty.

Hmm, ok it appears that friends are using crap applications which are sending out spam to try and entice me to use said apps.

There's something in the options of Trillian somewhere that enables you to choose notifications, mine are all off except PM's.

alexakasloth · 22 Feb 2010 at 12:29

Bah, I've been using this on msn and it turns out it doesn't import your block list..

bledd · 22 Feb 2010 at 12:46

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Hmmm. This works brilliantly on XP but doesn't seem to want to work on Win 7

Anyone had this problem:

Plaintext authentication is in fact not required and even if I do enable it I still get an error connecting.

Works fine in 7 for me mate

$loth said:
Bah, I've been using this on msn and it turns out it doesn't import your block list..

Delete them?

jamoor · 22 Feb 2010 at 12:48

Google Talk is where it's at.

MSN is for losers.

ChrisJSY · 22 Feb 2010 at 12:53

I was using MSN/ICQ/YAHOO#s instant messengers in respective cronoligical order of release as far back as I can remember, most of my contacts use them and I won't stop using them. Pidgin/Trillian makes it handy to have them all in one place.
Not one single person I know actually uses facebook enough to "chat" to them through it.

I'm always on IRC as well, good to drop in to a place everyone you know is always at and available for talking together when you can't meet in real life.

I don't stick to one basically is what I'm saying, because everyone using different things I do too to keep in touch.

sygitius · 22 Feb 2010 at 13:03

Thanks for the heads up, always wanted to try it.

leaskovski · 22 Feb 2010 at 13:08

disgby being used by a few other ocukers

Same here, though the chat via bookface is as flakey as hell. Lots of messages not coming through and failed to send message errors as well! Pony!

Beasty · 22 Feb 2010 at 13:09

Nice, I can cut out all the ******** that gets posted on my feed now, it's gone insane with this becoming a fan, and 'liking' nonsense. Lots of people have turned into attention seekers since they sodded off to uni too.

RandomTom · 22 Feb 2010 at 13:42

Beasty said:
Nice, I can cut out all the ******** that gets posted on my feed now, it's gone insane with this becoming a fan, and 'liking' nonsense. Lots of people have turned into attention seekers since they sodded off to uni too.

Pretty much everyone is an attention seeker at uni here, it just gets boring and consequently I don't ever post anything, pretty much ever.

Dmack · 22 Feb 2010 at 14:22

thanks i'll use this now, facebook chat on the browser is so slow and laggy

Knubje · 22 Feb 2010 at 14:48

I never realised MSN was a "has been" or out of date or rubbish. It's customisable to remove all the gash bits of it to suit my needs.

I have most friends on there and people are often online or contactable on it. Guess it's who you know and who uses what program.

Having said that I use Gmail chat a fair bit at work with other friends who are also at work

gjrc · 22 Feb 2010 at 16:10

OT anyone know of a good way to brows FB at work and have the FB chat working using a proxy?

the proxy stops it working....

i have tried daveproxy.co.uk but chat stops....

any other ideas for accessing FB when the domain is blocked?