Problem with Pidgin

[Daniel Atallah]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 22:58, NintendoBoy259 <nintendoboy259 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I think I found a bug in Pidgin last night, my OS is XP SP3. I had  
> v2.5.6 installed when I noticed that my buddies, all of them, would  
> sign off at a seemingly random time. I would still be able to have  
> an IM conversation with them despite them appearing as offline, and  
> I could fully use my internet. Apparently, I stay signed on for  
> their lists too. When they would change their status, they sign back  
> on with the change apparent; however, eventually I would run into  
> the same issue. So I updated to v2.5.8, and had the same problem.  
> Uninstalled completely, reinstalled, still getting the same problem.  
> Messed with some options, no avail. I emailed you this message,  
> almost verbatim, then updated to 2.6.1. And it's still happening, so  
> I'm send thing again... What gives?

Which protocol are you seeing this with?

It sounds like the users have just switched to an "invisible" status.

-D