BitlBee

If you're having troubles using Facebook chat with BitlBee, that's a known issue. Facebook have revoked BitlBee's API keys last night without giving any reason. All I received is two mysterious e-mails. Also, my Facebook account was disabled. But ... [More] that might have been for different reasons since I don't remember the last time I used it. TBH I'm impressed I recognised enough pictures of my contacts to be able to restore it. :> To make matters worse, in their communication to users connected to their chat from BitlBee, they say "You can contact the app admin for more information". I can assure you, I know as much as you do. I've heard rumours that a whole bunch of chat apps were disabled, not just BitlBee. No clue what's going on, but in the meantime you can switch back to password-based authentication. No clue whether it will come back. I've clicked the Appeal button so let's find out whether anyone reads what ends up there other than character device 1:3. We'll see, I'm not going to waste too much effort on it myself. [Less]

If you're having troubles using Facebook chat with BitlBee, that's a known issue. Facebook have revoked BitlBee's API keys last night without giving any reason. All I received is two mysterious e-mails. Also, my Facebook account was disabled. But ... [More] that might have been for different reasons since I don't remember the last time I used it. TBH I'm impressed I recognised enough pictures of my contacts to be able to restore it. :> To make matters worse, in their communication to users connected to their chat from BitlBee, they say "You can contact the app admin for more information". I can assure you, I know as much as you do. I've heard rumours that a whole bunch of chat apps were disabled, not just BitlBee. No clue what's going on, but in the meantime you can switch back to password-based authentication. No clue whether it will come back. I've clicked the Appeal button so let's find out whether anyone reads what ends up there other than character device 1:3. We'll see, I'm not going to waste too much effort on it myself. Update: As always, pay attention to the date on posts like this. This problem got resolved within a day or so IIRC. [Less]

Now available: BitlBee 3.2. Get it while it's hot! It adds support for Twitter API version 1.1, which will be required from March this year. But even without that it's a huge improvement over previous versions, with support for the streaming API and direct messages.

Now available: BitlBee 3.2. Get it while it's hot! It adds support for Twitter API version 1.1, which will be required from March this year. But even without that it's a huge improvement over previous versions, with support for the streaming API and direct messages.

BitlBee 3.0.6 is available for download now. If you want to know what's new, just read the changelog. (Yes, this post is a copy-paste of the one for the last release. :-)

BitlBee 3.0.6 is available for download now. If you want to know what's new, just read the changelog. (Yes, this post is a copy-paste of the one for the last release. :-)

BitlBee 3.0.5 is available for download now. If you want to know what's new, just read the changelog.

BitlBee 3.0.5 is available for download now. If you want to know what's new, just read the changelog.

If you have problems keeping your Twitter connection open, this is a known issue caused by bad behaviour on Twitter's end. In some cases this may also cause crashes due to faulty error handling in BitlBee. A fix to work around this annoying ... [More] behaviour was committed to bzr and is live on the two main public servers for a while now. Also, the nightly builds have the fix. If the problems with Twitter persist, a 3.0.5 release may come soon. [Less]

If you have problems keeping your Twitter connection open, this is a known issue caused by bad behaviour on Twitter's end. In some cases this may also cause crashes due to faulty error handling in BitlBee. A fix to work around this annoying ... [More] behaviour was committed to bzr and is live on the two main public servers for a while now. Also, the nightly builds have the fix. If the problems with Twitter persist, a 3.0.5 release may come soon. [Less]