My ichat buddies always appear offline when i know they are online and I appear offline to them

A couple months ago my ichat was working fine. Then all of a sudden all my buddies appeared offline when I knew for a fact they were online and I appeared offline to them as well. The only solution I have found is to delete each buddy and re-add them again and they magically show up online but after a while, like a couple days, they all appear offline again. I changed the port to 443 and deleted and re-added my jabber account and deleted the ichat.plist but nothing works.
Any help is appreciated!

Hi,
This could be down to the priority that each account and each login can have.
In Messages you can set the Priority that the app (and that account has)
The Earlier iChat apps did not have this setting despite it actually using a Priority.
The iChat versions is set to 25.
This is the same Priority as the web mail page login.
In this case the last login would take the "lead" - you would not always be logged off the other login but the messages sent would go to the last login.
I don't use Jabber enough to say if the 0 in Messages is higher or lower than the 25 in iChat or the web login.
I presume that 0 is in fact null and 25 is the highest that can be set.
Anyway the idea is that you can log in on various devices and use the Priority setting to make one the "first Receiver" if you will.
I have always thought it defaulted to the next device on the next highest priority.
I.e. the Home computer could be left on but a Work computer would have a "higher" priority and take the "lead" and a phone app could be set "higher" still and override thing when you are not at a computer.
I would wonder, based on your comments, whether these Buddies have logins with the same Priorities and when one device logs out the other(s) are not taking over, making them look Off Line.
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