After upgrade to 2.9.0 room members are shown multiple times under certain circumstances, visible as clones of the same member. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update pidgin to 2.9.0 2. join chat 3. wait Bug already fixed by upstream. Patch: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/rawdiff/07d5ff49cdb59eea5445748076453aebb0406817/with/b1dfad7fa45e394c213a97053d7ed5926c69901d/libpurple/conversation.c
Use this patch for one week - every thing is ok. No regressions.
Thank you, Nikolay! This behavior was frustrating me either, but I had no time to dig the patch. Fixed in pidgin-2.9.0-r1.