On Mar 21, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <eva...@dreskin.net> > wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:55 AM, David Munch wrote: > > > Some users might already have migrated to an XMPP Facebook account as per > > wiki/blog instructions. Is this going to cause any problems in the future, > > in case Facebook adds features to their XMPP implementation? I'm not > > familiar with, if any, differences between FBXMPP and a normally setup XMPP > > account. > > As with Google Talk users who previously created XMPP accounts, they might > miss out on such theoretical features. I think it's a minority, and users > who did this in the first place are probably savvy enough to figure it out. > > > It feels like at least 30 people a week ask about facebook on irc, all > getting the same answer to set up an xmpp account. I don't know that these > people know the difference if they are connecting through a web irc client, > which most seem to be doing.
I guess we have pointed a lot of people to XMPP accounts over the past year or so. As Colin wrote; > Can we not just migrate accts with the chat.Facebook.com server hostname? We might as well. The only minus to this is that this means some people who technically didn't need to be migrated will be... and that, in turn, means breaking some existing metacontacts and probably other minor settings. (It's easy to migrate such things from the old Facebook service... it's harder to do it from XMPP, and I'm not particularly interested in thinking through what it would take). -Evan
