Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

[Phil Smith III]

As usual, Eion is my hero! Thank you sir. It's installed and configured, I think--the "Apply hiding rules to buddies" is what I want, I assume?

Of course I'll know that it's working only because I won't see messages that might have otherwise seen--sorta trying to prove a negative...

-----Original Message-----
From: Support <support-bounces at pidgin.im> On Behalf Of Eion Robb
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:29 PM
To: Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com>
Cc: Pidgin Support List <support at pidgin.im>
Subject: Re: Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

Sorry about that. Behind the scenes there's two different buddy lists on Hangouts and they end up fighting with each other when the account reconnects

As a workaround, you can use
https://github.com/EionRobb/pidgin-ignore-nickchange which suppresses those messages

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 01:58 Phil Smith III, <lists at akphs.com> wrote:

> When my ISP is flaky, as happens from time to time, it'll disconnect 
> and reconnect repeatedly. When it does so, I wind up with IM windows 
> full of sequences like this:
>
> (4:02:44 AM)
>
> 106452616995561063094 is now known as xxxxxx.
>
>
>
> (4:02:45 AM)
>
> 106452616995561063094 is now known as YYY.
>
>
>
> (7:14:00 AM)
>
> 106452616995561063094 is now known as xxxxxx.
>
>
>
> (7:14:00 AM)
>
> 106452616995561063094 is now known as YYY.
>
>
>
> (7:36:57 AM)
>
> 106452616995561063094 is now known as xxxxxx.
>
>
>
> Is there a way to suppress those? These appear for Google Hangouts 
> users, though not all such, which is odd. All are aliased; I'd have 
> said they were all set up the same, but something appears to be different.
>
>
>
> In case anyone wonders, the problem is that this noise makes it easy 
> to miss actual IMs of significance (typically from my wife, which is 
> Bad).
>
>
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
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