More on Jitsi... it looks like a fraud to me.
MSN, Facebook, SIP, Yahoo! and GoogleTalk don't work. Latest Jitsi
version no longer offers MSN, but keeps offering (in vain) the rest.
-For Yahoo!, it shows a warning saying that Yahoo! modified the service to
require Yahoo!Messenger, but in spite of that Jitsi still continues offering
Yahoo! messaging in the available services list, and then lists Yahoo!
service as "available" and allows to introduce contacts... which of course
won't be reached.
-For SIP, something similar happens. Ekiga fails to offer me SIP service
also, but at least shows the list of contacts with the Echo test contact.
Jitsi doesn't. It doesn't look like it connects to SIP, it looks like it is
faking the connection.
-For Facebook, the website has a warning of being no longer available:
https://jitsi.org/Documentation/SetUpFacebookChat , yet still Facebook is in
the list of available services of Jitsi, and when you try to use it, it
doesn't say that it won't work because of Facebook but instead that the
authentication failed and you need to re-type the password.
-For GoogleTalk, the same happens. It allows you to introduce the account,
then keeps saying authentication mismatch and requesting the password again.
Jitsi, why on earth are you offering people the possibility of entering
their Facebook and Yahoo! accounts (and passwords) if you're never going to
provide any service for them? You just want their passwords? Please explain
like I am five.
I'll stick to Pidgin. Even though the good old days are gone, when all
of my Instant Messaging was handled from Pidgin... Facebook, MSN and Yahoo!
no longer work on it... also, I remember you could get a plug-in for Windows
NT to add Tuenti (which I didn't use because I used GNU/Linux Ubuntu) and a
plug-in for GNU/Linux to add Skype (which I no longer use because now I use
GNU/Linux Trisquel without proprietary software).
Still, Pidgin keeps handling my GoogleTalk and IRC accounts.
