[Pidgin] #11700: IRC contacts appearing offline when they are online.

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#11700: IRC contacts appearing offline when they are online.
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 Reporter:  xeian   |        Owner:  elb
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new
Milestone:          |    Component:  IRC
  Version:  2.6.6   |   Resolution:     
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by elb):

 There is a patch on #9692, and I'm ashamed to say that it's largely my
 fault that nothing has been done with it.

 There are a number of intertwined problems here.  The basic problem is
 that IRC was never meant for this, and we're abusing the protocol to make
 it happen -- in a fashion which puts load on the servers and requires
 quite a bit of data to travel back and forth.  We rate limit our requests,
 which is why online/offline status in your  buddy list will lag "real"
 logins and logouts, but still.

 There is no specific number of contacts you need to stay under.  If you
 add together the length of the usernames of your contacts in ASCII
 characters and add the number of contacts, keeping this sum under about
 450 should put you in safe territory.  Assuming that the average nick
 length is somewhere around 8 characters, this means about 50 contacts.

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