Announcing Online Presence Indicators
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Posted in r/changelog by u/lift_ticket83 • 0 points and 1,165 comments
  • AgreeableLandscape
    9·
    4 years ago

    Just wait until they remove the option to disable it and give some corporate speak excuse that they’re reducing confusion for users.

  • rish
    4·
    4 years ago

    And they somehow figured out how to update the old design too. They couldn’t add any useful feature because of the legacy code but this goes live everywhere at once.

  • kevincox
    42·
    4 years ago

    And of course this can’t be disabled in the old design even though it is active there.

    • PureTryOut
      11·
      4 years ago

      It can actually, it’s under privacy settings in preferences. I’m not trying to justify this feature btw.

      • kevincox
        3·
        4 years ago

        Ah you are right! I missed it and my searches didn’t have the right keywords.

    • DessalinesOPA
      19·
      4 years ago

      It’s a privacy violation to turn this on by default, especially opens up people to stalking and harrassment.

        • DessalinesOPA
          20·
          4 years ago

          The vast majority of people don’t know about or use RSS, they use new reddit, and the indicator shows up to your name and comment when you’re online now. So this is going to encourage ppl to harass others because they can see that they’re online.