Facebook will no longer provide XMPP support

[giuseppecuttone]

Hi,
I understood that in the next months facebook will no longer provide XMPP support
Do it will be a problem in order to use facebook chat with THUNDERBIRD?
When facebook will leave XMPP support, Can THUNDERBIRD users to use the facebook chat option?

Thank's for your answer.

[tanstaafl]

Probably not.

The Facebook XMPP Chat API has been deprecated in Platform API v2.0. Facebook has not announced any replacement for the Chat API, and have stated "Once version 1.0 is deprecated on April 30, 2015, chat.facebook.com and the xmpp_login permission will no longer be available.". I suspect they want applications to use the Messenger API instead. My impression is that Thunderbird's chat support was based on porting code from InstantBird. I suggest you monitor what they do.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2398 ... pi-in-v2-0
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/po ... messenger/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat

[giuseppecuttone]

Indeed, Facebook announces Messenger API at F8 conference.
Do you think THUNDERBIRD can introduce "Messenger API" in the software?
Or is it no possible?
There is a way in order to understand in the next week that?
To get to April 30 only missing three weeks ...
I don't understand why facebook to do changes so fast...
Do you have acces to THUNDERBIRD DEVELOPER?
Thank's very much for your answer?

[tanstaafl]

The developers are focused on implementing the list below for the next major release, due in May. New features are added once a year, in a major release. Its not clear that the Messenger API can be used as a replacement for the Chat API. They might replace Facebook chat support with a different feature (support for Facebook messaging), which would means its delayed until the major release a year from now. Even if they had working code to do that now, its too late to add it to this years major release. It takes time to review the code to see what side effects it might have, write unit tests, test it etc.

Add support for mbox based mail folders larger than 4GB
Finish support for using maildir files as an alternative to mbox files (maildir files are similar to *.eml files, but have a UNIX heritage)
Add support for WebRTC to instant messaging
Merge the Lightning calendar add-on as a shipped (but disabled by default) add-on
Merge the New Account Types binary addon into core, allowing new account types to be defined using addons in the future.
Support OAUTH authorization in GMail IMAP accounts.

[giuseppecuttone]

thank's for your information. I will get in contact with you in May in order to understand the last news. I understand that all the THUNDERBIND COMMUNITY will be affected due to this change. So I think a lot of user will ask for that...
Only one question more: I like THUNDERBIRD, and I think it is a very good solution, so I hope the developers can solve all in the next month. But if THUNDERBIND can't solve the problem in the next weeks I need look for an other temporaly solution that allow me to use a differents facebook accounts in the same times, like THUNDERBIRD.
Do you know an other software I can use temporaly that allow user introduce differents facebook account like THUNDERBIRD?
Of course, I look for a software that works in may with API Messenger.
Do you know a temporaly solution?
Once again thank you very much for your support.

[tanstaafl]

I don't know of a temporary solution unless you want to use an add-on that lets you use a web site (messenger.com) from within Thunderbird such as Thundertabs . I suggest you keep your eye on InstantBird.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/08/technol ... index.html

[giuseppecuttone]

In Instantbird developer say the following:
<clokep> There's no solution I know of currently.
<clokep> I was playing a bit with some ideas I have yesterday.
<clokep> The Messaging API is not a replacement though.
<clokep> It doesn't let you send messages. (Seriously.)
<clokep> And yeah, I know...it sucks, it'd be nice if people stuck with standardized protocols...
<clokep> giuseppe: If you have any more informatino though, please do let us know.
<mpmc> I know bitlbee has this plugin for use with the Messenger API -> https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook
<clokep> Yes, that's what I was looking at yesterday.
<clokep> But of course no one ever documents anything.