facebook

Updated to version 6.0.22313.0 this morning, the account for facebook has gone and I cannot add a new one.

They removed it from build 6.0.22283 (and onwards). I sincerely hope they find a solution to this as it was one of the reasons I bought eM Client.

Hello Karel, unfortunately it is no longer possible to use facebook chat in eM Client as facebook has shutdown the support for this feature using 3rd party applications and from now on you will only be able to use the application using native facebook application and chat clients.

Sorry about the inconvenience, we do miss the feature too.

“facebook has shutdown the support for this feature using 3rd party applications and from now on you will only be able to use the application using native facebook application and chat clients.”

Actually Trillian have implemented the new facebook chat protocol so this is possible. I would like to see this fixed as it was a major reason for me moving to eM Client.

Hello, as far as I know there’s no such thing as a new Facebook chat protocol, the service has shutdown support for Facebook chat on April 30th, 2015 (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_0), but we’ll be happy in case we’re wrong and in that case, please let me know what exactly you’re referring to as the new protocol, I’ll be happy to find out more and suggest the feature for implementation.

Regards,

Hi Paul,

From here:

https://www.trillian.im/changelog/windows/5.6/

April 28 -  Facebook:  Facebook engine updated to a newer protocol

Hello again, thank you for following up with me. I’ll try to find out more information, but unfortunately based on official documentation from Facebook the Chat API has been deprecated due to Facebook moving to Messenger. Messenger platform however is not available for Windows, so we’re not completely sure what has Trillian updated.

Regards,

I see this is from 11 months ago, but I just installed the beta version of the eM Client 7 and am having the same problem. Is this still the case?

Sure!

Facebook removed support for other clients including emClient once and forever. No chance for this to come again.

OTH this feature should not work anymore with your current version either, doen’t it?

No, it does not work on the current version

Any update for it?  I am interested to purchase if you have FB chat.   Thank you.

According to https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Facebook-Chat-Message-use-XMPP-Jabber-like-other-IMs, there may be a little confusion about facebook chat and facebook messenger. Developed as chat, it got messenger and changed from the old XMPP-protocol to mobile-friendly MQTT. May this help: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoFacebookMQTT ?