Invisible but still seen coming Offline!

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September 17, 2003 at 10:41 am #12247

intoblue
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Sometimes on Yahoo Messenger…my friends are seen as coming OFFline!!! But I never see them come ONline!!! I take it that they’re invisible and when they log off some bug in Yahoo shows them coming offline. Surely being invisible means that people shouln’t be able to see you come offline aswell! Does anyone know why this happens? And how do we stop it? I know that I’ve been seen by chat friends as coming offline when I’m invisible. I’ve checked the privacy box in my profile so no one should see me online if I’m playing games, or online in their address book or on any yahoo sites eg. groups etc. When I’m invisible..I wana stay Invisible!!:mad: Mind you..at least I know when other people are invisible..haha:)

September 17, 2003 at 1:35 pm #90421

carbonize
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No the bug is more likely yahoo not sending out the message they came online in the first place.

September 17, 2003 at 3:56 pm #90425

intoblue
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It happened again today!!..And I know that these friends of mine ARE invisible, coz mostly they go invisible..I still see them go Offline. And one time a friend pmed me while I was invisible and asked why they could see me go offline but they couldn’t see my online status. It doesn’t matter to me that people are invisible…but that means..when I’m invisible and when I log off, people can see that I have been online..This is so weird..:(

September 18, 2003 at 2:06 am #90418

calvin
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In my case, I can also see everyone in my list who is logging on “invisible” as them going offline. It just started yesterday. TO confirm this, I’ve asked 5 of my friends to log on their Messengers in “invisible” mode… and I see them going “offline” and when they log off, I also see them going offline… and three of them also noticed this happening to the buddies in their list…

something has definitely gone awry with Yahoo Messenger…

September 18, 2003 at 8:37 am #90414

lella
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For me it started yesterday and, as i have all my ID’s in my pager when i login i can see myself online for about 1/10 of a second (basically i can see something yellow flashing in the right corner,that all) then the offline status message taking its place. Maybe a new “upgrade”? Sometime i wonder…Upgrade to what? Hell?

September 18, 2003 at 2:10 pm #90407

snugleupagainst
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Yeah I have one of my profiles to my ID on my own list too. I too just these past few days have seen a note at bottom right saying Ive gone offline just as I get online as invisable. Also had this happen as Jon came online as invisable. (We both start off as invisable when we connect) SO what we are all seeing is a note of someone going offline BUT in actuallity they are just coming online in invisable mode. Ahhhh ever loving Yahell. *You know they call it Yahoo! cuz thats what we yell when and if it actually works right* lol *winks*

September 18, 2003 at 4:46 pm #90426

misterguy
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i found this site and joined just to get info on this bug out there…but i see you’ve already covered it. so anyways, hello everyone

September 19, 2003 at 12:18 am #90424

intoblue
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Oh my God..hello Everyone!! Yep! Thats what its is. When you log on as invisible, you are seen as Going OFFLINE. When I added my own ID to my friend’s list..I saw myself as coming ONLINE for a few seconds even though I was invisible, none of my friends saw me coming online for a few seconds, BUT one friend saw me as coming OFFLINE then pmed me thinking I would see it as an offliner. Thaaaaaaaat means…this bloody bug in Yahoo..oh my god..when we see our chat friends logging off without seeing them first come on line, it means they have just logged on but are invisible! Jesus..I hope yahoo sort this out fast!! I was actually pmed by someone I was kind of avoiding..oh well..served me right I suppose!

September 19, 2003 at 12:54 am #90417

karmina
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i like that new feature! 😉

At least, you can see who on your friend’s list likes to be in hiding mode…hehe…

September 19, 2003 at 2:28 pm #90412

Oreo
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Actually I was a bit curious last night and I went onto YaZak with a different ID than my messenger. So I had two ID’s on at the same time. And a funny thing happened. When I got logged on my ID on YaZak was shown LOGGING OFF on messenger….and I never showed up as visible on messenger NOR did I show as logging off when I logged off. This leads me to believe that Yahoo! is futzing with things. Perhaps this is in preparation for next week’s events?

Oh and I’m using the last 5.5 version of messenger…so it’s not just 5.6

September 19, 2003 at 9:31 pm #90409

mariettelarkin
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WEll, so far today I haven’t seen this happening. Is anyone else still getting these offline/online boxes? Do you this this is over?

September 19, 2003 at 10:20 pm #90416

karmina
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naa its not over yet for me.

September 20, 2003 at 9:25 am #90415

lella
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seems ok for me now, i tried login in and out few times and i didnt see myself going offline….. lets hope they have sorted it(9.15am here GMT)
BTW, i wrote to them about this and also about the offline being deleted…i didnt even recieved the automated reply. Charming :S

September 20, 2003 at 3:35 pm #90408

mariettelarkin
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I spoke too soon yesterday, it seems its still doing its crazy thing. Funny thing is, its only happening on “some” of my ids! YahPOO!

September 20, 2003 at 5:27 pm #90423

intoblue
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How do we get to tell Yahoo about this??? How do I email them and tell them about this problem? I don’t want people to see me when I’m supposed to be invisible!!
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