You can post messages to You Are My Friend using a Jabber client on your computer, mobile phone, or other platform. (GTalk, Google's Jabber program, will also work.) This can be a convenient way to keep up with your friends on You Are My Friend.
If you don't already have a Jabber account, you can use GTalk or one of the other public Jabber services. You'll probably also need an IM client like Pidgin.
Managing your IM settings
Use the IM settings page to set your IM preferences. You can add or change your Jabber address and set the flags for Jabber update.
When you add or change your address, you'll receive a message from urmf@status.net asking you to confirm the change. (You may need to add urmf@status.net to your buddy list before changing your IM settings; this is definitely true for GTalk.)
Sending updates
You send updates by sending messages to urmf@status.net. Messages should be less than 140 characters; longer messages will be truncated.
Commands
You can do some minor management of your account through Jabber. These are the currently-implemented commands:
- on: Turn on notifications. You'll receive copies of messages by people you subscribe to.
- off: Turn off notifications. You'll no longer receive Jabber notifications.
- stop: Same as 'off'
- quit: Same as 'off'
- help: Show this help. List available Jabber/XMPP commands
- follow <nickname>: Subscribe to <nickname>
- sub <nickname>: Same as follow
- leave <nickname>: Unsubscribe from <nickname>
- unsub <nickname>: Same as leave
- d <nickname> <text>: Send direct message to <nickname> with message body <text>
- get <nickname>: Get last notice from <nickname>
- last <nickname>: Same as 'get'
- whois <nickname>: Get Profile info on <nickname>
- fav <nickname>: Add user's last notice as a favorite
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