Showing friends online in friend list

[Clarity 3,094]

An idea I've had. Sorry if this was posted before, because if it was...search feature dumb.

 

So...this idea is like viewing the members list, but with your friends. When you go to "Manage Friends" there's a full list of the friends you've added, and a couple of options. Which is basically the same as the members list, but with one thing missing: an option to stalk.

 

That way we can go to our friend list to see if any of our friends are online, and put them ahead instead of in alphabetical order.

[Shiki 5,855]

If you go to your friends list and hover your cursor over whomever's name for a few seconds, a mini profile thingy will pop up, which includes an indication if said user is online or no.

 

I've gotten the feel that this place is not meant to a social networking site, and that forums/threads/etc. come before personalisation with singular users, so I would only assume that such a feature would be so minor that it wouldn't be implemented. But I ain't no Feld0, so my thoughts may be wrong.

[Key Gear 6,663]

That way we can go to our friend list to see if any of our friends are online, and put them ahead instead of in alphabetical order.

 

You know, many suggestions have been made about ways to keep better track of online friends. Most of them were not really things that I thought would be possible (or prudent) to do. This suggestion though… I think I already know of a way to make this happen. Well, several ways… We'll just have to see what works. Time to head to the lab…

 

I've gotten the feel that this place is not meant to a social networking site, and that forums/threads/etc. come before personalisation with singular users, so I would only assume that such a feature would be so minor that it wouldn't be implemented. But I ain't no Feld0, so my thoughts may be wrong.

 

Well, I'm not Feld0 either, but I am his techchicken somewhat familiar with his thinking on this matter. Basically, this site is a social networking site by definition. It is social because of all of the folks that you have on the site, and it is a social *network* because folks interact among themselves and form relationships through the site.

 

Frankly, the interaction between individuals is what makes the forums, blogs, and threads come to life, I really don't think you can have one without the other. Just thinking about myself, there are so many users on the site that I greatly value as friends and associates (including both you and Clarity, Sugar Plum!) that I just couldn't imagine the site as a soulless discussions-only environment.

 

Well, I'm going to cut myself short before I tried a wall of text. I'm actually really tired right now, so I think that it would probably not turn out too well (sanity is declining fast). I'm definitely going to look into this feature though. I rather like it…

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

I was just about to post the same feature request when I found it here.

 

So... bump, I guess. I would like to see this happen.

[SCS 7,537]

I support this suggestion, but I don't feel that this feature is a high priority. It would be nice to be able to sort your friends list that way, but in the meantime you can hover your mouse over someone's username to see whether or not they are online.

[Zygen 6,066]

Well its not really high priority, but it would be a nice little thing to have as an extra, I mean sometimes I wonder why it isn't that way.

 

You know you could also do something with the bottom of the page maybe where friends light up a certain color. Just a thought. I know nothing about the technical side of things, so I'm not sure how it'd go though.

[Eureka 1,119]

*bump*

 

I honestly would really like to see this happen. Since I go on the forums with an IPad, and I know some other people who do, we can't scroll over an avatar

 

 

You know you could also do something with the bottom of the page maybe where friends light up a certain color. Just a thought. I know nothing about the technical side of things, so I'm not sure how it'd go though.

This is also a pretty cool idea also.