Facebook chat no longer stays in "group"

[David Coulson]

Yes, i noticed it with a few clients in the last week. Facebook uses XMPP so they can group users however they want server-side.


On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Fannie Gunton wrote:

> Even though it only just started happening?  It’s been solid for at least 9 months.
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> From: David Coulson [mailto:david at davidcoulson.net] 
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 5:41 PM
> To: Fannie Gunton
> Cc: support at pidgin.im
> Subject: Re: Facebook chat no longer stays in "group"
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> Facebook via XMPP does this with other clients too. It's nothing the client can influence.
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> On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Fannie Gunton wrote:
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> I’ve been using Pidgin to corral all of my chats into one interface for the last 9 months.  I have general categories (family, work, etc.) that I sort from all of my chat clients (facebook, AIM, etc.) into.
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> Within the last 2 weeks, I’ve noticed that my facebook chat friends are no longer sorting.  There’s a new group called “Facebook Friends” that they are all in.  If I manually resort into my other groups, the next time I log in, they are back in the “Facebook Friends” group.
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> Is there any way to make them stay sorted?  It’s a big enough issue, that I may have to switch to another chat client.
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> Thank you!
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> -Fannie Gunton
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