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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
This is something we went back and forth on, and we should have been more clear about our reasoning in the post. We chose the word "Hiding" because if a user has switched the toggle to disable this feature they're still technically online even though it would not be viewable to anyone else. We didn't want there to be any confusion in the broader sense of the term.
I'm not sure why anyone is even talking about the verbiage, the main point here is that it's an irrelevant feature designed for... what exactly? At the moment you say that it's only visible to me, ok? Why do I need to know if I'm online? Then you say it will later be visible to other android users, ok? Why do they need to know anything about my status? Then you say that there will be a full rollout later on but that still begs the question of why? If I'm on my cell phone and I don't actively have reddit open and someone sends me a message or posts a comment on a post of mine it pops up as a notification which 100% negates any possible need for me to ever be actively online, and it 100% negates any need for someone else to know if I'm on or not. If I'm on, I'll see it right away, if I'm not on I'll see it later. I have more than enough engagement with my fellow redditors, I'm not desperate for more and if I was, i would just start posting things in subreddits all over. Also, are you aware that most of us do not follow other people? Are you aware that most of us don't message other people directly? What's the point of my status showing online if they can't see it anyway? I'm always amazed at the kind of crap someone trying to keep their job can come up with. I don't want an opt-in or out, I don't want any of this, I frankly don't want my "actively online or not" information collected at all by anyone... ever.
There's nothing here!