Re: Facebook chat past convos

2015-04-26 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-04-26 13:00, Steve Daniel wrote: In facebook messenger, I can scroll up to see my past conversations with any user. I can do this even with a fresh install of messenger, so the history is obviously stored on facebook's servers, and not just locally. Is there any way I can do the

Re: Facebook chat past convos

2015-04-26 Thread David Woolley
On 26/04/15 21:00, Steve Daniel wrote: n facebook messenger, I can scroll up to see my past conversations with any user. I can do this even with a fresh install of messenger, so the history is obviously stored on facebook's servers, and not just locally. Is there any way I can do the same in

Re: Facebook chat past convos

2015-04-26 Thread Steve Daniel
Yes I actually read about that while I was researching. Vendor lock-in at its best. On Apr 26, 2015 6:52 PM, David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: On 26/04/15 21:00, Steve Daniel wrote: n facebook messenger, I can scroll up to see my past conversations with any user. I can do this

Facebook chat past convos

2015-04-26 Thread Steve Daniel
In facebook messenger, I can scroll up to see my past conversations with any user. I can do this even with a fresh install of messenger, so the history is obviously stored on facebook's servers, and not just locally. Is there any way I can do the same in pidgin, or is it a proprietary facebook

Re: Facebook chat past convos

2015-04-26 Thread Steve Daniel
I didn't see anything on the developer's chat page about a replacement for xmpp. I suspect someone will try to reverse engineer messenger's protocol, and I hope they succeed. But even if they get something workable, it still won't be as good as an api provided by and openly documented by Facebook.

Re: Facebook chat past convos

2015-04-26 Thread Faust *
Hi. I read your correspondence and I was interested in the question. Will there be another Facebook API to send messages to third-party programs?  27.04.2015, 04:56, "Steve Daniel" stevedaniel4...@gmail.com:Yes I actually read about that while I was researching. Vendor lock-in at its best.On Apr

Any hope after a hard restart?

2015-04-26 Thread Bxjjz Nxnjdjx
Hello! I used Pidgin for about a year, because it logged things so much better than aim. Under the username shakespeareansiblings, a friend and I wrote an obscenely awsome amount of stories. Recently, my computer has been glitching, and I attempted to make a backup disc, but that service was