I happen to have two facebook accounts and I used to chat on both of them using pidgin. Everything was working alright, until today, when I couldn't connect to one of my accounts. A Server closed the connection
error was being displayed. My other account could log-in from pidgin just fine. But just a moment ago that other account as well failed to connect to facebook displaying an Internal server error
. Did facebook completely withdraw support for XMPP chat? In that case is there any way to chat on facebook using pidgin or any other third party software?
Ubuntu – Can’t log in to facebook accounts using pidgin
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Edit: I've noticed that my answer below is outdated. The installation method has changed. Anyone interested in a solution to the problem should just go to the page https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook and follow the instuctions written there. Therefore, my original post is useless now.
The original post: I ran into the same problem this morning and I've just found a solution here: https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook
It will add new Facebook protocol to Pidgin that works for me.
That should be it. Please, let us know how it went!