I am not entirely sure that this is a bug but I am sure someone will move the topic is appropriate.
Situation
If you have been playing the game and representing a Guild then you show up on the Guild Roster with the character name and the location zone.
If you are idle for a while then the game will kick you back to the character select screen.
If you are going afk for a while (and do not want to repeatedly killed by whatever spawns around you every 15 seconds) then you might choose to manually return to the character select screen.
Problem
The Guild Roster is not updated with the new character and location. In fact, the game reports you as online and allows people to whisper you and invite you to parties. Since you are at the select screen you will not see the messages or invites and, since you are afk anyway, it does not matter if you do.
Why is this an issue?
Two days ago, one Guild member went AFK whilst in one zone and was kicked back to the loading screen. As in happens they left the computer running for a whole day. During that time, the Guild roster reported the character as online and of course the Guild member ignored all chat, invites and whispers for around 24 hours. The other Guild members got quite worried that the account had been hijacked by botters (same zone for > 24h with no contact) and started trying to contact the Guild member in real life to check up on them and their account.
Perhaps for a fix it would be enough to simply list the character location in the Guild Roster as “character select screen”.