Messages - Facebook ID numbers instead of Names

Stayed on names for about 45 minutes but then reverted back to numbers. Also for over a week I am getting a pop up that says my chat password is wrong. when i enter it it does not accept it & then I get a 6 number code on my phone to enter &nthat works but a little bit later I get the same pop up &n have to go through the same process again. I have code generator enabled but why do I still get the pop up and need to go through the process again

It certainly seems to be displaying names a lot more frequently or for a longer duration of time than the numbers. I am also able to talk to someone on FB through messages now that I couldn't before. I could send to that person but not receive from. Everyone else I chatted with on FB through Messages did not have that problem, whatever was preventing me from using Messages with that person seems to be resolved too.

When I open messages now I get this error: "Could not connect to host chat.facebook.com"

All other chat apps work, but they fail with the numbers instead of names thing... Something is seriously up with Messages. Can anyone else connect?

For the past few days I have to keep entering my FB password to bring up my FB contacts. I use the extra verification of having to enter a numeric code sent to my iPhone whenever FB thinks I am logging in from a new device or browser. And FB thinks I am using a new browser several times a day with Messages. I've even had it happen while in mid-chat with someone. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is it because of using the extra verification? Someone kept trying to hack into my FB account a while back, even with frequent password changes, and that extra verification stopped them, so I don't want to give that up.

Anyway, my experience may be related to your not being able to connect.

I am baffeled since other chat clients work, yet they still fail with the names instead of numbers.... I do see several "addressbooksourcesync" errors in my console... Facebook and Apple are not in sync anymore like they used to be.

Word for word I have experienced exactly what you posted. My F/B account kept getting hacked & did the security code thing also & it stopped it. A few weeks ago when we started seeing numbers appear I would start getting a box to enter my password. it would not accept it and then would get code sent to phone. Seems like evertime I would restart my computer I would have to go through this. It got to be such a pain that yesterday I turned off that feature.Now a lot of times I get a email that says some one logged into your account if it was you disregard so I just delete the email. I am hopping all this is solved when the new operating system comes out but I doubt it. I would really like to enable the security code feature again as it really worked when everything was working right but for now I will keep it off

I finally stopped the extra verification step a couple of days ago, and haven't had to log in since. I'm still getting the numbers for any friends I haven't added the code to in Contacts (-1111111111111@chat.facebook.com, added as a Jabber account), but, as long as Contacts has the code, I get the friend's name.

I'm curious if you see errors such as this in your log:

8/28/13 1:55:55.871 AM AddressBookSourceSync[3202]: AOSKit ERROR: ➖ RAF: Invalid url -- https://[USERNAME]@webdav.facebook.com/664094105/

I wonder if it is related to the issue with Messages.....

Yeah, so based on my error, the url location where Contacts (or AddressBookSourceSync more specifically) has coded is now wrong... Contacts displays what it has stored, but Mesages will switch to Jabber ID upon the failure... Is there a way to edit that URL if someone tells us what the new one is? I am trying to see if I can spot what happens on my system log at the time of the number switch and will post here if it is anything of note.

as I edit this a switch occured with no entry in the log at all.

....but then a few moments later I see that same error again I posted prior, as well as this entry:

8/28/13 4:49:18.617 PM Contacts[2499]: AOSKit ERROR: ➖ RAF: Invalid url -- https:////{username}@webdav.facebook.com/664094105/contacts/addressbook/

"webdav.facebook.com/664094105/contacts/addressbook/" is no longer valid. I am not sure if that number is unique to myself or not... when I look back in my log it is the same number every time.

This is completly random. I was messing around on my Mac. In Messages app> enabled bonjour. Then I went to my System Preferrences> Mail, contacts & calendar> facebook and enabled contacts. Just for fun I then updated profiles while I was there. No more issue now, whatever I did seemed to have resolved the issue. Will report back if anything changes, have not rebooted yet.

Interestingly when I changed to using my facebook username instead of my email address as the account credentials for the facebook entry in "mail, contacts & calendars" the AOSKIT error went away.... I also have names and not numbers in Messages, but it may go away. One may not be related to the other at all. I do know that you can log in to facebook with either item.

It does also seem that when it is on "names" it stays there for much longer now than it has all summer. If it changes to numbers numbers then I know the Contacts sync issue was not related at all (which would be why it was not thought of before 🙂 )