`member_unit_state` built a `partyN` or `raidN` view, then replaced `is_connected` with the roster status byte's online bit on both legs, the held leg included. So a member who went link-dead while still in view read disconnected at once, and their frame's power bar went grey.
`UnitIsConnected 0x517d50` looks the unit up in the object manager (`0x517da6`). A held unit answers 1 (`0x517daf`). Only with no object does it read the record's `+0x08 & 1` (`0x517dd3`), which `SMSG_GROUP_LIST` sets from the member's status (`0x4e836e`-`0x4e837b`).
The held leg keeps `snapshot`'s value, and only the no-object leg reads the roster's online bit.
Tests (through `feed_party` and the Lua getter):
- a held member reads connected whatever the status byte says, for `party1` and `raid1`;
- a held member going offline reads connected until the object leaves, then nil;
- an unheld member with the bit clear reads nil, and with it set reads 1.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
