ddickinson: Good day, Hyper!
I hope your back is starting to feel better. The alternative you mentioned did not sound nice, but it would be horrible if it spread to your legs.
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Thanks, I will give it the weekend, and see how things are on Monday. I saw that your shoulder's doing better, that's good to hear.
ddickinson: [...]
I know what you mean about the chat, the constant change of the order is so annoying. What is annoying me the most is that people I have only ever chatted to once are top of the list, pushing people I chat to all the time out of view and to the bottom. I wonder if they expect us to use the friend page to initiate chats with people we would like to, it sure would be quicker than scrolling through a constantly changing and unordered list we have at the moment.
You know, that thought crossed my mind too, and they sure seem to do whatever they can to push all this new social fluff (I suspect that the lack of control over contacts in general and on a case-by-case basis is so that one resorts to the friends feature), but that wouldn't exactly solve the problem. If one has more than six friends, the change in on/off-line status will lead to the same. I talk more with people that are not constantly online, so they would usually be out of view.
The whole design of this system screams to not use it the way we used the PM system. GOG took away the only system of proper private communication we had in favour of online socialising fluff.
Just earlier, I noticed that a couple of my contacts, toxicTom included, displayed what they were playing under their avatar instead of their online status. This clearly is oriented towards Galaxy users, yet is carried over to the site were it's just noise.
