Feature request: "current status" like in WhatsApp, Facebook
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Just struck me as a nice idea... could be displayed when you mouse-over someone's avatar pic... like "current status: discombobulated"
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Where exactly would users set this information?
More importantly, why exactly would users set this information?
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Like I am going to give my whatsapp status to you.
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We already get the "about me."
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More importantly, why exactly would users set this information?
It would be a poor man's CS signature abuse. Which is to say, probably not much abuse, but a place for stupid little jokes. So more like tag abuse.
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There's the "name" field which is probably gonna end up providing this kind of functionality.
Sidenote: Why is my screen sometimes shaking when I enter the topic or reply to a post? It's inconsistent, but annoying.
Filed under: i miss tags :(
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It would be a poor man's CS signature abuse. Which is to say, probably not much abuse, but a place for stupid little jokes. So more like tag abuse.
So you're saying you agree with this feature request?
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Why is my screen sometimes shaking when I enter the topic or reply to a post? It's inconsistent, but annoying.
It might be a browser bug. I went through a phase of seeing that a while back whenever I plugged a second monitor in while the machine was asleep and didn't fully refresh the page. I've not seen it recently, but I've changed when I plug the external monitor in so that doesn't mean very much…
(I was seeing it even on pages without meaningful javascript usage and where I completely controlled the content; it wasn't a problem with that side of things.)
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So you're saying you agree with this feature request?
Maybe. But mostly we need something that's visible without extra clicks to make it really worthwhile.
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Where exactly would users set this information?
There is such a thing as "user settings". Reachable via the avatar pic on the top right.More importantly, why exactly would users set this information?
Dunno...because they would want the world to know? Heck, what do I know why people regularly update their status on WhatsApp... all I know is that they do.Filed under: it might not be of much use, but you can say: hey, we are user orientated!
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There's the "name" field which is probably gonna end up providing this kind of functionality.
What do you mean "probably gonna end up"? It serves that purpose nicely! Now all we need is to see the name on mouse-over the avatar pic as well...
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current status: discombobulated
+1 just for this
@Quietust said:Where exactly would users set this information?
I wanted to Gimp it but I'm too lazy. I'd just put a text input in the avatar popdown menu. You could put as "Enter status here" or something like that as placeholder text to avoid extra labels and cruft.
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Now all we need is to see the name on mouse-over the avatar pic as well...
I don't understand why we can't just put it to the right of the username. Or before the username. There's a whole line of whitespace just sitting there.
Weird.