Google Talk - some buddies appearing offline when they're not

2016-04-11 Thread Thomas Preece
Hello, I'm seeing an odd problem in Pidgin where some Google Talk / Hangouts buddies are consistently appearing offline when they are in fact online (verified using the Hangouts app on mobile). This is happening with a new account, but I'm not seeing it with a previously-existing account on the sa

Re: Google Talk - some buddies appearing offline when they're not

2016-04-11 Thread Eion Robb
That does sound like it could be serverside. Is there any pattern to buddies that display online and offline? Like, is it those 'public' xmpp addresses (with the random numbers/hex in them) that appear as offline? Or just buddies that were added after a certain date? Alternatively, you could tr

Re: Google Talk - some buddies appearing offline when they're not

2016-04-12 Thread Thomas Preece
HI Eion, Thanks for your response. I can't find any conclusive patterns - the only correlation is that users appear online to me after they have logged in on mobile: * one who only uses mobile appeared straight away * one who was on desktop at first initially appeared offline but then after loggi

Re: Google Talk - some buddies appearing offline when they're not

2016-04-13 Thread Thomas Preece
That seems to work perfectly. Thanks again for your help! Thomas On 12 April 2016 at 11:28, Thomas Preece wrote: > HI Eion, > > Thanks for your response. > > I can't find any conclusive patterns - the only correlation is that users > appear online to me after they have logged in on mobile: > *