Feeling chatty?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1575371]

MSN used to be my main one. Nowadays I think more people are talking to me over FB chat or Google Chat/Jabber (which hooks up to andrew@ducker.org.uk).

Comments

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

Mostly FB but I use Meebo as my chat client and found this helps most of my contacts on less used networks keep in touch. MSN follows a close second.

[andrewducker]

Oh, I use Pidgin as my actual client. Is there anything Meebo does that Pidgin doesn't?

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

Probably not. Meebo recently added FB to the list of supported networks but Pidgin covers much the same though maybe not FB (looking at the site). I plumped for Meebo as it has a web based portal for chat, FF has a nice little plugin and it works fine with the iPhone, though not multitasking. Hopefully Jobs will fix that tonight in his WWDC address....

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

OK Pidgin has a FB plugin so no, Meebo has no real benefits over Pidgin except maybe the web portal?

[andrewducker]

Quiet possibly. You may also prefer the UI - I haven't used it myself, so I don't know if it's lovely :->

[andrewducker]

Facebook has a Jabber gateway nowadays, so you an use it from Pidgin. I certainly do :->

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

A Jabber gateway? Need moar info!

I was about to berate you for using Facebook chat because the website's so awful but if there's a Jabber gateway I could use, then that might make everything a lot nicer!

[andrewducker]

Assuming you're using Adium you can follow the instructions here:
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[0olong.livejournal.com]

It's good that, but it annoys me greatly that every time I log in via Jabber, it logs me into chat on the site, too, which I basically don't ever want to use. Hmph.