Facebook - Pidgin unreliable ever since recent facebook chat changes.

[Daniel Atallah]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 21:24, Les Fenison <les at fenison.org> wrote:
> Is it even a good idea to run pidgin on multiple machines logged into the
> same facebook account at the same time?

Hard to say.  With XMPP, when you have multiple simultaneous logins,
the server can decide which instance(s) will receive a message - it
may not send all messages to all instances.  We have no idea what
facebook has decided to do with their XMPP implementation.

> Not only am I seeing data missing from one machine or the other but also it
> seems to be very confused as to if people are online or offline.  The system
> that i was complaining about that was missing data, shows my buddy as being
> offline and he has been for 6 hours.   Facebook and my mobile devices also
> agree that he is offline.  Yet the other system that wasn't missing the
> data, still thinks he is not only ONline but also not idle.
>
> Also, I discovered that the two machines ARE NOT running the same versions.
>
>
> Version 2.9.0 is missing the data occasionally yet accurately reports when
> the person is on/off line.
>
> Version 2.7.7 Doesn't miss any data but inaccurately reports hen the person
> is on/off line.

This may be a coincidence.

-D