Adium is behaving very strangely for me. It’s made my AIM account effectively useless. Sometime this afternoon, it started logging out of my AIM account, then immediately logging back in, ad infinitum until the AIM network gave my account a time-out for logging in too much. I’ve waited until the 5 minutes were up, then manually logged into AIM, and it does the same. Shut down Adium, restarted–same deal. The AIM network itself seems to be just fine–my buddy list always pops up for the moment before it logs off again–so what in Adium could have changed to make it break this way?
Does anyone else see this problem, or have a way to fix it?
It’s apparently a combination of an AOL server problem and an Adium quirk. Adium squeezes the AOL rate limiter hard, to make it seem uber-fast, but due to some server problems the AOL rate limiter has been cranked up, sending Adium over the edge if your buddy list is too big and getting you kicked off. It’s supposed to be fixed on the Adium side soon, and hopefully AOL will fix their side as well.
Look here if you want to see other people complaining about this problem.
And now there’s an official blog post:
http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2006/08/aim-issues-in-beta.php