Well in his (her?) defence, GOG has made this convoluted as shit. There are now two friends sections, when the features of both need to be combined into one place (ie the Profile now). You also can't remove friends directly in Galaxy either as far as I am aware, and he (she?) may be a Galaxy user.

Like a FB list with "official" fake friends?

So you think those ladies would've liked it more if i put them on a publicly posted list? I thought the little black book was preferred for discreetness. Well, thanks for the tip!

True, GOG makes things confusing. But I've explained (maybe not clearly enough?) and linked it before. ;)

And Beastmaster 1! :)

Beastmaster 1 is one of the greatest movies ever.

I love that damn thing.

But the TV series is the best! :) (for me)

Finally, thanks InkPanther and sanscript,. Yes, I was looking in the wrong place.

BKGaming, yes totally confusing. I never even saw that separate Friends section. I was able to unfriend and I do have Galaxy, no problem doing it with that.

Are you saying that https://www.gog.com/account/friends should be discontinued?

I think it's a bit more complicated

Which is exactly what makes 2 so goddamn bad. The franchise basically follows the exact path Highlander did. First movie is great, second is terrible and shits all over the original, the third is basically the apology, ignores 2 and is not nearly as good as 1 but still kinda fun with great music, and then there's a tv show with a new main character. It's quite bizzare really how exact it is.

Essentially yes, the friends section on the profile offers nearly the same features (ie, the ability to send a message, view profile, and view wishlist). All they would have to add is a remove friend button, a block button, and the ability to search and add people and they can essentially kill the other section. It's redundant now.

I don't know how they handle disabled profiles (can you still view your own profile if it's disabled?). So they may have do something for that, but that's not a reason not to do it. Pretty much every other gaming service handles friends via the profile section.

GOG came up with https://www.gog.com/account/friends because they didn't have profiles, had they had profiles early on that section would probably have never existed.

EDIT: To be honest though, they could still keep https://www.gog.com/account/friends for website users, but they for sure should combine said features into the profile friends section, if only to offer a better experience for Galaxy users. But the more you duplicate features, the more likely you will have bugs. One section for both web and Galaxy users would be better, and the profile is more logical for containing these features.

With a disabled profile you can only see the gogbear. So if they wanted to deactive the friends page and do everything in the profile gog would need to make changes so that a disabled profile would not turn into a problem.

A bit belated reply - there are two issues. The first has already been mentioned by moonshineshadow above; the second is that even in an enabled profile, friends with disabled profiles don't show up in the friends tab at all (which I assume has to do with how disabled profiles work).

Both are relatively easy to work around and/ or solve.

To fix this. Instead of showing a 404 page (which I think is bad design to begin with). Show a standard "This profile is disabled" message on Profile, Games, etc. when you or other uses try to view your profile if it has been disabled.

On the friends page, show the user the page even if the profile is disabled. For everyone else, show the above message. At the top of the page include a message up top that says something like: "Profile Disabled: To enable website functionality, only you can view this page. To allow other users to view it, please change your account settings", with a link to your account settings page.

Again easy to solve. Instead of hiding disabled profiles from everyone, hide them from everyone except for the account owner when they view their own friends page again for the sake of website functionality. Non-disabled profile and disabled profiles could even be broken into separate sections on the page, showing non-disabled profiles based on account settings and disabled profile friends only to the profile owner.