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Plusnet Community - My Friends

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:21:59 GMT

I've been trying to find out the purpose of this facility on the site so in it's simplest terms what use / purpose does it have / serve? Is there a reference to this facility anywhere that I can read?

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:34:33 GMT

There needs to be a forum reference FAQ, explaining what all the features are, and how they are intended to be used.

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Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:46:16 GMT

I thought there was which is what I was hinting at regarding something to read.

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

Browni — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 12:22:55 GMT

This may give an indication of it's purpose...

https://community.plus.net/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences:privacy

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:01:37 GMT

Thanks @Browni - I can see how that would be of use. But are there any other uses for it?

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Browni — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:09:48 GMT

@Anonymous, that's the only use I've found so far. I first came across it on another lithium forum where I could see some email addresses in the user list.

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Anotherone — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:55:05 GMT

What is my Friends list and how do I add people?

The Friends list is a way for you to create your own little community within a community.

Depending on your Privacy settings, the people on your Friends list can see your bio and other personal information or whether you're online. If you send Private Messages, you can choose your friends from a list instead of typing their user names.

To add people to your Friends list:

Click the username of another community member to see their Profile page.
In the Contact Me area, click Add friend.

That's all there is to it.
To send a PM to a friend, in the PM area, click on the Friends tab, and then click on the envelope symbol to the left of the name.

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

w23 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:15:13 GMT

I'll be your friend

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Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:31:16 GMT

Too late @w23 you're already on my list But it's odd why you weren't informed that I'd added you, you would have thought the system would have told you that I'd added you so you could either smile, scowl, reciprocate or block. Maybe this is something that can be added.

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

jaread83 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:14:28 GMT

Would you guys find it helpful to have the 'online users' panel updated to have a separate 'my freinds' row? Just putting it out there... might find it useful if you 'freind' someone?

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

MauriceC — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:24:13 GMT

Not for me @jaread83. The service is already cluttered with enough gimmicks. A list is fine for me.

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Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:27:10 GMT

@jaread83 - That sounds like a good idea, but what would be even better and I think way more useful would be a floating list, that followed you around page to page or dockable like a toolbar so you could see instantly when your friend(s) come online.

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

jaread83 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:27:43 GMT

Fair enough, just putting it out there You can access your 'friends' from your profile page if that's any help to anyone.

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jaread83 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:32:54 GMT

That actually sounds like a good idea but isn't something I can implement from our end. So kind of like how Facebook messenger works on the desktop website where you can see a list of online/offline freind on the side.

As I said, not something I can do but is worth putting the idea forward to Lithium to look into for future release with an option to turn it off if you dont want to use it.

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

w23 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:10:26 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Too late @w23 you're already on my list

Possibly just my memory.

If I check 'my profile', I have one friend (@Mook), don't know if that's becase you added me or because I added you (as I did around the time I posted earler). I'll add a few more (hope nobody's offended by being added (or forgotten - sorry that's just my age, nothing personal)).

[Edit] one added, it looks like this might be the only 'result' of adding:

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:27:22 GMT

@w23 - When was the last time you checked this list can you recall? I added you back on the 18th of April so I'm guessing that the user isn't notified of the addition. I will now go and add @MauriceC and @Anotherone so if you guys could maybe see if you get some form of notification that would be appreciated. If there's no obvious notification could you check your friends list to see if there is any indication there please.

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w23 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:52:07 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

@w23 - When was the last time you checked this list

This morning when I posted (see above)

@Anonymous wrote:

can you recall?

Nope.

I don't think I looked at it before / I don't remember looking at it before

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

jaread83 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:56:37 GMT

I don't think there is a notification that someone has added you to their freind list.

Re: Plusnet Community - My Friends

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:57:56 GMT

It would appear that way as I also added @jaread83 to my list of friends

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MauriceC — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:00:17 GMT

I got an email to notify me that I'd been mentioned in your post (as set in my preferences) but no Notification of being added to your 'friends' list. Checked in 'My Profile' and the only friends listed are ones I added some weeks back?

Just works like a 'Contacts' list I guess - but then only one such list.