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Not to mention chat services don't provide any unified API and you need a different app for each of them. Just counted, I'm currently logged in to 7 different
by vardump 9y ago
Not to mention chat services don't provide any unified API and you need a different app for each of them.
Just counted, I'm currently logged in to 7 different chat systems, none mutually interoperable.
I'd pay for an application that provides me a unified view of all those, for phone and for desktop.
- seba_dos1 9y agoXMPP transports.
- vardump 9y agoI wish. Providers of popular chat apps force you to use their clients only. The little XMPP support that existed is dwindling now.
- seba_dos1 9y agoTransports, not service provided gateways. I'm successfully using Facebook's Messenger and Hangouts from a single XMPP account right now. AFAIK Telegram and WhatsApp should be super easy too, but I don't use them at all.
- detaro 9y agoWhatsapp actively bans users it detects using third-party clients, so that's always risky.
- jjrh 9y agoYou're talking to people on FB with a XMPP account? or using your facebook credentials to connect? I tried hangouts recently and the lack of message carbons made it pretty unusable.
- seba_dos1 9y agoTalking to people on FB and Hangouts with single XMPP account on my server, via transports. The Facebook's XMPP gateway has been disabled for a long time already, while Hangouts' one works, but poorly. Plus using gateways still requires you to configure multiple accounts wherever you want to chat. Transports solve that.
- jjrh 9y agoahh through transports/gateways you run - so you have a facebook account and just registering that. I got excited for a moment thinking there was some unlisted way of messaging someone on facebook via XMPP. What's the transport you're running for fb and hangouts?
- solarkraft 9y agoThere is an app called Franz that bundles the web versions of many services that have them. That doesn't sound very appealing to me either, though.