It'd be cool to have something like an online status you could set that would follow you around on the site similar to other IM programs. Stuff like Busy, Looking for Play, and so on, with a place to put in some custom text. This would be especially helpful for Switch profiles, to show which way a person might be leaning at a given moment.
It'd be really cool if you could then go to Profiles and see a list of people who are online and looking for play and the like.
created: 25 March 15 at 03:33 PM (build: 3/20/2015 4:37 AM beta)
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
This is not really the point of the site.
To find people who are online and looking to play, you can just do find profiles online recently or whatever other distinction you consider 'online'. Otherwise, this kind of thing pretty much only hosts junk on sites like F-list (this is the song I'm listening to right now!) and does not really help to communicate that much.
You are here to roleplay, and presumably if you are around the site, you are interested in doing such.
Well, I'm on the site right now, and I'm not really interested in doing a roleplay right this very instant.
Since this site isn't an IM program, concepts like being online or looking or busy aren't meaningful.
Imagine: would a forum work well if people had online, busy and looking statuses?
Probably not, because the online mark would be irrelevant when the person goes to bed and forgets to update it.
A signal you're looking for new partners might be useful but not as a sort of online status.
And f-list has taught me that for the most part, a Looking status has limited good. Half the people not marked as looking might still be happy to receive new partners, so everyone will happily message people not Looking anyway. Then the other half of the people not Looking are genuinely not wanting new partners, and will receive a bunch of unwanted solicitations for play, and half of those will just be frustrated by the situation and complain.
Better to just avoid the Looking signal altogether. It is not all that useful.
This would end up being counter-intuitive to the site. Just because I don't have this website open in a tab all day long does not mean that I don't monitor my e-mail to keep track if I get any correspondences on the website. What's the point in having more tabs open when I can use one tab to keep track of any messages I receive? It's counter-productive to keep checking multiple tabs throughout the day when my e-mail tab will give me an alert I can see at a glance for notifications on any and every website I use. The only thing an online status will do is lead lazy people to assume that trying to communicate with me is worthless, because they won't see me as "online".
I completely agree with Salem. This site is also capable of Forum-style roleplay, where you can post while offline, and RP the scene slowly over time rather then live. So why would being online or not be anything more convenient? In fact, with this site, what I really really enjoy... I don't waste my time waiting for a post that might never happen unlike an IM or Chat. If the other person went away, well, I'm doing other stuff, and replying when I notice. Yes, its slower. But it allows IMO more stable roleplay, since there is no time constraint.... I'm diverging.
The point is: This is a roleplay website. Not a Facebook Clone or Chat Site. People don't need to know what you are doing right now. They just need to know what's going on with your roleplay.
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
I am rejecting this, as it does not fit within my vision for the site, and the community (at least who've posted here) seems to agree that it is not appropriate for a site like this.
Please, indicate if you are willing to play by taking out roleplay ads. Whether or not people are online should not be relevant; just roleplay.
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