Topic

Chat Lists are Unmanageable

(i searched but couldn't find anything)

if you belong to anything more than two or so groups, the list of chat option is really quite.. awful.  I have to scroll way to much to get down anywhere near my contact list, and then, it's just alphabetical, and i really have no idea who many of my contacts are, since i just added them to send them mail, or something.

i think there should be a way to "mute" a group when it comes to chat windows when we're online. 

please :)

Posted 17 months ago by greenkozi Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • +10 I'd love a way to order and or group my contacts. Groups included.
    Posted 17 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 here. I've noticed the same problem. Actually, my contacts just need to be separated from my groups.. I don't mind scrolling through my contacts so much.
    Posted 17 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes yes yes! Since I've started greeting, I have billions of contacts. I don't mind being friends with them -- I like it when they ask if I can help with something -- but I don't want to have to wade through them to find the people I DO want to hang out with. Can we somehow set priorities or make levels of friends, so the acquaintances don't get in the way of playing the game?
    Posted 17 months ago by Lilith Subscriber! | Permalink
  • In case you didn't know: You can hit the "x" button on a chat window to close it so it doesn't appear at the top any more, and you aren't monitoring it. You will then have to select it again from the lower list to start monitoring it again. Also, if you have a favorite person you like to chat with, you can leave their chat window up at the top indefinitely after you've im'd with them once, which will help keep them separated from the hoard of other "friends" you have accumulated. These settings will change, however, if you sign on with a different computer or browser, as they seem to be stored locally.

    That said, I do agree that something has to be done to help us organize our lists better. At the very least, putting a separator between groups and individual people would be very helpful. Beyond that, it would be nice to have a different color for the names of people we have chatted with before, and maybe another color for ones that we have chatted with on multiple occasions. If the number of friends we are allowed to add is not limited, these lists will get out of hand VERY fast.
    Posted 17 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • hey shepherd, i mean on the left part- is that what you're talking about? it's still quite unwieldy on the bottom. i took myself out of 5 groups yesterday because i never use the chat part of it, but that's not really how i want to manage the system.
    Posted 17 months ago by greenkozi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, greenkozi, what I mentioned applies to the list on the left, although in order to close one of the chat windows you have to click on the name of the chat to open it up, then click on the x button in the chat window screen. This removes the name of that chat from the upper part of the list and moves it down to the bottom part (which, yes, gets quite long).
    Posted 17 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *bump*
    Posted 17 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 .. we need to be able to organise friends into different groups/lists
    Posted 17 months ago by BumbleBeez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Millie for find this thread.

    I would like to see friends list evolved into a better management. When I need to IM my friend, and have to scroll all way to bottom due to friend's name is start with S or Z. It would be nice if I can rearranging my friend list or rather put certain of my friends in folders. Perfect for open and collapse a folder quickly. Now, that's great idea!
    Posted 17 months ago by Milolin Subscriber! | Permalink