Comment by Mispelling on 03/03/2021 at 18:41 UTC

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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators

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You *wish* that was an option. Only "hiding".

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Comment by _coffee_ at 03/03/2021 at 19:11 UTC

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You can Opt-Out any time you like, but you can never leave.

Comment by [deleted] at 04/03/2021 at 07:11 UTC

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It's called "delete your reddit account". I'm seriously considering it these days.

Comment by intensely_human at 04/03/2021 at 04:02 UTC

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Like the craven you are!

I'm also "hiding"

Comment by UnacceptableUse at 03/03/2021 at 20:33 UTC

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Isn't that the same thing?

Comment by lift_ticket83 at 03/03/2021 at 20:59 UTC

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You

wish

that was an option. Only "hiding"

Apologies for not being more clear about this point in our announcement. When a user has toggled their status to "Hiding" it means they have disabled the feature. Once you are “Hiding” the presence indicator is turned off and no one will be able to see your online status anywhere on the site. This will not change unless you change it, regardless of what device you use to browse Reddit. .

Why did we choose "Hiding" vs "Offline?" Well, you're not really offline even if you've disabled this feature, and we wanted that to be clear in the broader sense of the term.

We will have an explanation published in our Help Center detailing all of this before we publicly roll this feature out to everyone.

Comment by Xaxxon at 03/03/2021 at 19:57 UTC

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There’s no reason for them to allow people to lie about their status.

Correct info or no info are a valid set of choices.

Comment by Hurtlegurtle at 03/03/2021 at 23:08 UTC

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What does it matter? Its the exact same. No one can see if you’re online or not?

Comment by [deleted] at 04/03/2021 at 15:47 UTC

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It says "hiding" to you, but it appears as offline to everyone else.

Comment by [deleted] at 05/03/2021 at 06:04 UTC

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And it's right at the top of the options when I click on my username. Can we at least change *that* so I don't accidentally toggle it back on?