[tor-talk] Can't log in to Facebook or use Facebook via Tor Messenger

[Michael McConville]

Qaz wrote:
> On 11/07/2015 11:30 PM, Michael McConville wrote:
> > Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> >>> Damn the Facebook .onion is soooo slow! :(
> >> Wait, onion? No, there is no onion for the chat. We are connecting to
> >> chat.facebook.com on port 5222. (We have asked FB if they can provide
> >> that or are even thinking of supporting XMPP.)
> > Again, they dropped XMPP support recently. I can't imagine they'll ever
> > support it again.
> 
> I had it working a while ago :)
> 
> I followed Singh's advice, which is to turn on the chat in Facebook's
> desktop site. Just in case, make sure username is correct. Hmmm, what
> else, there's a lot more he said in earlier in this thread, should not
> be hard to see it :)
> I'd be glad to help :p

It may still work, but they pretty publicly and controversially dropped
support, so I doubt they'll reverse that for Tor Messenger's sake. I was
clarifying that because Sukbhir mentioned asking them about supporting
XMPP.