Facebook's Windows Messenger will be shut down

If you want to chat with your friends or contacts on Facebook, you can either do so directly on the site, or use one of the messenger applications that Facebook has created for that purpose.
Up until now, messenger applications were provided for Windows, Android and iOS. That's going to change soon though as Facebook will end support for Windows Messenger on March 3, 2014.
Windows Messenger is a standalone program that you can make use of to sign in to your Facebook account to chat with contacts on the social networking site.
If you happen to open the Messenger for Windows as of today, you will receive a notification at the top of it that informs you about the discontinuation of the product:
We're sorry, but we can no longer support Facebook Messenger for Windows, and it will stop working on March 3, 2014.
We really appreciate you using Messenger to reach your friends, and we want to make sure you know that you can keep chatting and view all of your messages on http://www.facebook.com/
The product will stop working on March 3, and from that moment on, Windows users are asked to use the Facebook website directly to chat instead.
The Android and iOS versions of Facebook Messenger are not affected by this, and you can still download and install them on your devices.
The discontinuation of Facebook Messenger for Windows does not mean that you have to use the website to chat or read messages.
Besides the two mobile clients mentioned above, you can also use third-party clients instead to continue using chat in a program on your desktop and not in a web browser or mobile app.
Supported are for instance Pidgin, a cross-platform client that you can use for that purpose. The program may come in handy if you are using other chat protocols or providers besides Facebook, as Pidgin supports many.
You can check out Facebook's Chat page for other client suggestions and instructions on how to configure the programs properly so that you can use the programs to chat with your Facebook friends.
Side note: it is interesting to note that Facebook Messenger for Firefox's Social API appears to be no longer available as well. The page returns a not found error, and there seems to be no option at the time of writing to install this version of chat in Firefox.
Closing Words
It is not really clear how many Windows users have used the Windows Messenger for the social networking site instead of other applications or the site directly.
It is likely that quite a few users will be affected by it, considering the number of users Facebook has, and the promotions it ran previously for the messenger client.
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Martin, I would appreciate that you do not censor this post, as it’s informative writing.
Onur, there is a misleading statement “[…] GIFs are animated images …”. No, obviously you don’t seem to have take much notice of what you were told back in March regarding; Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).
For example, https://www.ghacks.net/2023/03/31/whats-gif-explanation-and-how-to-use-it/#comment-4562919 (if you had read my replies within that thread, you might have learnt something useful). I even mentioned, “GIF intrinsically supports animated images (GIF89a)”.
You linked to said article, [Related: …] within this article, but have somehow failed to take onboard what support you were given by several more knowledgeable people.
If you used AI to help write this article, it has failed miserably.
AI is stupid, and it will not get any better if we really know how this all works. Prove me wrong.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IYl1sTIOHI
Martin, [#comment-4569908] is only meant to be in: [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/09/how-to-send-gifs-on-iphone-two-different-ways/]. Whereas it appears duplicated in several recent random low-quality non relevant articles.
Obviously it [#comment-4569908] was posted: 9 July 2023. Long before this thread even existed… your database is falling over. Those comments are supposed to have unique ID values. It shouldn’t be possible to duplicate the post ID, if the database had referential integrity.
Don’t tell me!
Ghacks wants the state to step in for STATE-MANDATED associations to save jobs!!!
Bring in the dictatorship!!!
And screw Rreedom of Association – too radical for Ghacks maybe
GateKeeper ?
That’s called “appointing” businesses to do the state’s dirty work!!!!!
But the article says itself that those appointed were not happy – implying they had not choice!!!!!!
@The Dark Lady,
@KeZa,
@Database failure,
@Howard Pearce,
@Howard Allan Pearce,
Note: I replaced the quoted URI scheme: https:// with “>>” and posted.
The current ghacks.net is owned by “Softonic International S.A.” (sold by Martin in October 2019), and due to the fate of M&A, ghacks.net has changed in quality.
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/02/microsoft-is-removing-wordpad-from-windows/#comment-4573130
Many Authors of bloggers and advertisers certified by Softonic have joined the site, and the site is full of articles aimed at advertising and clickbait.
>> ghacks.net/2023/08/31/in-windows-11-the-line-between-legitimate-and-adware-becomes-increasingly-blurred/#comment-4573117
As it stands, except for articles by Martin Brinkmann, Mike Turcotte, and Ashwin, they are low quality, unhelpful, and even vicious. It is better not to read those articles.
How to display only articles by a specific author:
Added line to My filters in uBlock Origin: ghacks.net##.hentry,.home-posts,.home-category-post:not(:has-text(/Martin Brinkmann|Mike Turcotte|Ashwin/))
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/01/windows-11-development-overview-of-the-august-2023-changes/#comment-4573033
By the way, if you use an RSS reader, you can track exactly where your comments are (I’m an iPad user, so I use “Feedly Classic”, but for Windows I prefer the desktop app “RSS Guard”).
RSS Guard: Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
>> github.com/martinrotter/rssguard#readme
We all live in digital surveillance glass houses under scrutiny of evil people because of people like Musk. It’s only fair that he takes his turn.
“Operating systems will be required to let the user choose the browser, virtual assistant and search engine of their choice. Microsoft cannot force users to use Bing or Edge. Apple will have to open up its iOS operating system to allow third-party app stores, aka allow sideloading of apps. Google, on the other hand, will need to provide users with the ability to uninstall preloaded apps (bloatware) from Android devices. Online services will need to allow users to unsubscribe from their platform easily. Gatekeepers need to provide interoperability with third-parties that offer similar services.”
Wonderful ! Let’s hope they’ll comply with that law more than they are doing with the GDPR.
No, they didn’t lmao.
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1706523877478670542