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Have been using Adium Beta with Facebook/Jabber for Facebook chat successfully for a few weeks now (using the official facebook instructions). However a couple of days ago it stopped working. I'm getting this error:



The strangest thing is that peoples messages from Facebook come through as you can see to the right, but I can't reply as it's in 'offline' mode. The regular Facebook chat log-in on on adium is working, but the Jabber version had all my convos so I'd prefer to continue using that!

Seems I have a unique problem here? Very frustrating as this works so well, so much better than the regular facebook plug in. Any ideas??

I tried to connect using iChat too and that didn't work. If no one else is having this problem, does that means there's a problem with my computer? What could that be? Going to try another mac now...

Well, if iChat is also failing it's not an issue with Adium most likely.

Are you connecting from home or in a corporate environment? Had you made changes to your connection when the problems started?

No connection changes but have done some more troubleshooting.

I can connect to a different facebook account through jabber, but not my main one. I also had the same result on an older mac. I've also tried beta and regular versions of adium. So the problems seems to be my regular facebook account. Why would that be? I've tried changing password but that hasn't helped. I could change username but id rather not as it can only be done once.

Tried changing username but this hasn't worked either. Am really puzzled and annoyed! Any suggestions?

It does work for me, during a conversation, but I've also been seeing problems:
• Adium doesn't automatically open the conversation window.
• Adium gets stuck on the 'User is writing'.

Thanks for the reply. I've gone back to using the standard Facebook plugin and that has improved since I last used it, so that's fine. The one issue I'm stuck with now is past conversations I had using Jabber/FB. It's important I can see who I have/haven't chatted to. However in the chat transcripts users are listed as numbers instead of names, even though the name appears in the transcript. Is there a way for me to search for these names? They don't come up when I use the standard search.

Yup, XMPP is totally dead for me too. I get a writing indicator, and that is all.

I just wrote the Facebook team. What a lousy contact site they have...

Are you having the same problems I had?

Their support is beyond lousy, didn't even think you could contact them!

I'm not sure if this helps, but within the past 24-48 hours, my Facebook-via-Jabber account stopped working in iChat.

First I realized that it (on it's own) decided to use the domain of my email address as the server address instead of chat.facebook.com. No big deal, correctable.

I then logged into my Facebook and went to Account Settings to confirm my Username. Once I did that I double confirmed that I could log into Facebook with just my username (not my email) and my password. That worked.

Now, using chat.facebook.com and port 5222 with SSL off, I still cannot log in. I've tried with my email and my username, neither work and I'm sure my password is correct. There's a definite disconnect somewhere on Facebook's end atm...

I'm using the normal plugin currently, since it works, although reliably.

I could log on just fine with XMPP, and I could receive messages. But I couldn't send messages... Weird thing is, that it works fine for others (I tested this with Robby)!

I was using jabber conncetion to FB which was working just fine, in fact great - then it quit "connecting" get " error 503: service unavailable" - I have submitted problem to FB, but do not know if I will ever get and answer... Has anyone heard if FB jabber type connection is "broken?"