--- a/hugo/content/help/protocols/otherprotocols.md Wed Aug 21 22:35:41 2019 -0400
+++ b/hugo/content/help/protocols/otherprotocols.md Wed Aug 21 23:32:30 2019 -0400
@@ -14,10 +14,13 @@
page for community-maintained plugins for these and other services.
### What happened to Facebook Chat support?
-Facebook terminated their XMPP support in April 2014. Pidgin doesn't have the-developer resources to support an alternative implenetation ourselves. See the-[Plugins](/plugins/) page for community-maintained plugins for this and other+Facebook terminated their XMPP support in April 2014. An alternative Facebook +Messenger plugin was developed as a +[Google Summer of Code](/gsoc/#previous-years) project. That plugin is +currently in the Pidgin 3 source tree and has been backported to Pidgin 2. The +backport can be found either +[here](https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki/) or on the +[Plugins](/plugins/) page, but it is _not_ maintained by Pidgin's developers. ### Why doesn't Pidgin support CyanChat, Microsoft LCS/Skype for Business, Skype, NateOn, NetSoul, etc.?
It is an incredible amount of work to implement and maintain support for a
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time. As spare time is a limited resource, Pidgin's developers can maintain
only a limited number of protocols.
+That said, there are a number of people in the Pidgin community that have spent +the time to develop plugins for additional services including Skype, Microsoft +LCS/Skype for Business, and others. A list of known community-maintained +plugins is available on the [Plugins](/plugins/) page. If you are willing and able to implement and maintain a plugin for a protocol
that you use, we welcome and encourage you to do so! The beauty of Pidgin and
libpurple is its plugin system, allowing anyone to enhance and extend Pidgin.
-You can find community-supported (third-party) plugins on our-[Plugins page](/plugins/).