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Adium beta AIM problems resolved

For those keeping score at home, the problem with AIM in Adium 1.0 beta stemmed from overexcitedness on the beta’s part. AIM imposes a “rate limit” which prevents clients from sending too much data too quickly. We were effectively ignoring that rate limit during the sign on process.

That was well and good (sic), except that an AIM server upgrade, unrelated to Adium or any other third party client, occurred on Thursday of this past week. That upgrade included stricter rate limiting requirements, which pushed Adium 1.0 beta over the edge. After the upgrade, users whose buddy lists required significant information requests during sign on — large number of buddies, many away buddies with away messages, many buddies with buddy icons — were summarily kicked during sign on.

We’ve fixed the problem for 1.0b9, which will be available in the next 24 hours. :)

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 20th, 2006 at 12:45 AM by Evan Schoenberg and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

14 Responses to “Adium beta AIM problems resolved”

  1. drunkenbatman Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 12:51 AM

    yay

  2. Robert Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 1:13 AM

    Thanks for the great work and quick fix! I’ve updated svn and rebuilt and it works all fine and dandy again :) .

  3. Tau_Zero Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 1:33 AM

    b9 works fine so far

  4. Anonymous Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 2:43 AM

    Thank goodness!!! (And thank you!)

  5. Anonymous Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 3:43 AM

    all bow to the mighty ADIUM programers

  6. Anonymous Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 9:11 AM

    adium people can do anything!

  7. Anonymous Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 1:28 PM

    …still doesn’t work for me…

  8. Anonymous Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 12:27 AM

    Thank you. I can now live normally now that Adium is working for me again.

  9. Anonymous Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 1:49 AM

    Oh, you’re sick!

  10. kate the great Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 7:11 AM

    yay, icq finally connects to server. that’s a very good thing :) I love it

  11. Anonymous Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 6:44 PM

    yay adium! weeeeeeeeeeee!

  12. Anonymous Says:
    August 22nd, 2006 at 3:23 PM

    It still doesn’t work for me. One of my AIMs won’t connect.

  13. peelman@gmail.com Says:
    August 29th, 2006 at 11:07 AM

    I’m still having issues as well. i even went through and killed off about 2 dozen aim contacts, and it still didn’t help. None of my other clients experience this problem. Blew away Adium, re-downloaded it fresh, still does it.

  14. marg Says:
    September 29th, 2006 at 1:00 AM

    So… how do i upgrade to 1.0b9 ?

    And what about the commenters saying they’re still having trouble… is the issue really fixed?