Every since the last couple of updates, Pidgin has become almost useless to me. For whatever reason, a change was made that affects how my outgoing font appears.

If I set it so that my font looks right, everyone else tells me it's like 20pt huge. I have to crank it down to like 8pt on my end for it to look right to everyone else.

Is there any way for me to set the thing so that the font just looks normal and doesn't apply any formatting on the outgoing side?

I tried switching to Kopete, but that client crashed for me constantly.