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11 points·gurubavan··8 comments

Very nice indeed, but the popup makes it hard to use.

I'm back to using Adium (Pidgin) since it also supports IRC.

tmikaeld, I agree that the popup isn't the best, but it's the best implementation that's possible for group chat.

I used Adium for facebook chat for the longest time, but it doesn't support group chat, which is a big use-case for me.

I would love if it showed up in-browser instead of a pop-up :)

Hey caiob, thanks for responding, it's definitely a popular request (see other comments on this post). I wish we could do better than the pop-up, but it's the only way we can support group chat.

Dev here, happy to answer any questions!

I would love it if it worked like on android. What i mean is that when i press a chat head i want the message ui to appear on top on the web page and not in a new window. Also i would like it if the chat heads did not dissapear after responding to a message so that i could keep all my active conversations in chat heads

Hey emilsjolander, that's a common question! It's actually next to impossible to do well — I've been trying to work around this for months.

If I used facebook's XMPP interface, I could do real-time chat in the chat head. But facebook's XMPP interface doesn't allow for group chat or offline chat.

There are plenty of facebook chat clients, but none of them do group chat or offline chat, so I decided that was more important than real-time chat in the chat head.

Hope that addresses your concern, if you have any suggestions I'd be very grateful to hear them!

how about something like multiple small windows on a page? like 4 in a row and 3 rows on a page.

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