Yahoo! Presence shows my status as offline even when I am online
While trying to display my Yahoo! Messenger status on this weblog I came across a roadblock. Yahoo! Presence, which is the service that takes care of this, always shows me offline regardless of whether or not I actually am offline.
While digging deeper into this, I realized that this is nothing to do with the Yahoo! Presence widget that I have installed.
I visited the Yahoo! Online Presence Indicator at http://mail.opi.yahoo.com/online?u=chintanzaveri&m=a&t=1 to see whether or not I am shown online, and it doesn’t.
The response code that the above link sends is “00″, which means offline. The response code that I am expecting is “01″, for online. I checked the above URL substituting my Y! ID with my friends’ IDs. Their statuses are all correctly indicated.
I also checked the permissions for my profile at http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/, and they are as below:
Who can see this on my profile?
About me: Anyone
My updates: My Connections (There is no such option as “Anyone” here. The only options are “My Connections” and “Me only”.)
Guestbook: Anyone
There is also a checkbox for Allow my connections to share my information labelled “My Connections” with third-party applications they install and developers who made the applications. This is checked and cannot be changed.
I tried logging into Yahoo! Messenger using different clients like Adium, Yahoo! Messenger for Mac, Yahoo! Messenger for Windows, but no plus.
Any ideas on how I can make this work?
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