Topic

New Friends Page

In the first of a two-part overhaul, the Friends page has been redesigned & now supports searching within your friends: t.co/wpPfpHEJ

So, what does everyone think?  

Personally, I'm hoping part two either brings back my page in order that I friended folks, or lets me identify (and move to the top) those friends that I really care most about vice just listing them in alphabetical order.  Not a fan of alphabetical order as the default in this case.  I do like that I can visit my friends home street from the page though!

Posted 5 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Why can I see people's REAL real names in the friends list, when I know they are hidden on their profile page or were altered for their profile page?!  If people don't want their REAL real names displayed, they shouldn't be listed here to friends either.  This is a privacy issue!

    ETA: It's fixed, and doesn't display account names any longer!   Thanks for the quick work/fix TS!!!
    Posted 5 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, I really need to see who I've added most recently.  Like the 10 most recent additions, as a minimum.  
    Posted 5 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So when is part 2? :D
    Posted 5 months ago by koolaroo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The whole real names thing is a bit ... facebookish. More media connection, like Twitter and Facebook. Don't focus too much on the Friends page, TS. Maybe make everything look more pretty and uniform, and modernized, especially older pages, but I liked the old page and the features and information it offered.

    www.glitch.com/status/PUV3J...

    My replies: "This is relatively cool! Though to be honest, I liked the old friends page better."

    "Yeah, that's one reason I don't like it. You can't see the order. The friends list takes up so much more space, especially with people with a lot of friends. I like the rows and rows of medium/small icons. Possibly make this Friends search a different page? I also enjoyed that page with where your online friends were strolling around, or exploring, or jumping around or whatever. I liked the simplicity of that page. I know, and support, Glitch fixing and upgrading its older pages, but I don't like this new one D:"

    I understand it's just Part 2, and hopefully TS can make it better and satisfy my needs (though it's just me) ... but inputting my ideas so if TS reads this, as they claim to read every thread, they can possibly tweak their Part 2.
    Posted 5 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good point Palindrome...I was trying to figure out why it was so much bigger...yea, an option to just have icons/thumbnails/glitch heads only would be a nice option to have to compress the size of the page.  
    Posted 5 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • BTW, the real name thing has been fixed.
    Posted 5 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Friends who names begin with symbols are not displaying in my list.  The 0-9 ones seem to be working, but my friends who have other symbols aren't showing.  I can search for them, but they don't automatically show on the main list.
    Posted 5 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like it. (Big fan of alphabetizing, actually.) To me, it's much more useful.
    Posted 5 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think it's fine, just continue to wish the page were easier to get to. (Maybe that's part 2!)
    Posted 5 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey Glitchen!  The real names issue was a temporary bug and certainly not intended - our apologies!

    We are looking into friends with names beginning in symbols and will sort it out.  For now a workaround is to scroll down to load all your friends - those with symbols at the beginning will show up.  I know that's not ideal, but it will be fixed soon.

    Sincerely, Sprot.
    Posted 5 months ago by Sprot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Same diaveborn! there REALLY needs to be a Friends option in the player menu in game.
    Posted 5 months ago by Kerlick Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Sprot, but some of the real names (not from the profile page) are still appearing (not sure where they are getting these from at this point).  Thought you had fixed it so it was the profile page 'real name' entry, but it doesn't appear to be...many of the profile page 'real names' entries aren't appearing either.  Weird! (Thanks for working on this so quickly!)

    ETA - Appears to be working better now!  Thanks for the fix!!
    Posted 5 months ago by Uniquely Prime Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Kerlick It is in there, actually :)

    And yes, we're improving the way you get there by far, because it's not super fun happy good times at all.
    Posted 5 months ago by Kump Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do like that it will show me who I have friends in common with on someone else's friends page.  But have to agree with most of the opinions here that have already been posted. 
    Posted 5 months ago by Uniquely Prime Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do like the A - Z, makes it easier to find a specific person when I need to.
    Posted 5 months ago by Leithwyn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, not talking so much about the in-game aspects - just that to get to the actual friends page, I have to scroll down on my home page past online friends, or use the more convenient link at the top of that list but have to click another link while I'm there, to get out of the facebook option.  Not a huge deal really, just annoying given how many times I want to get to the friends page.

    I like that there's the visit home street right there on one page! Very helpful.
    Posted 5 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • diaveborn ♥: Yeah, what Kump was saying was there there will be better access from the home page very soon!
    Posted 5 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Stoot! It looks great and so much good stuff coming! 
    Posted 5 months ago by Miss Bobbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Google has to see this! why didn't they thought about a button for every search result?! Amazing!! best glitch page ever! #### lovely glitch conga stuff
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wait! more buttons to click on! www.glitch.com/profiles/PIF...
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay awesomes, stoot & Kump! Hope I didn't seem like nagging, just was asplainin' to Kerlick :)
    Posted 5 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think it's still not too much overwhelming, there's still some space there, let me think, maybe a twit button too, just to open more possibilities, who knows, Just in case.
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why not login with facebook too? are you guys putting money under the table? I miss those friend little windows in farmville, go visit friend home! do some clicks over there and win currants! woohoo!!
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i would very much like the option to sort friends either alphabetically, chronologically, or as suggested by a friend, by most recently logged in.  i often found the old sorting really useful for placing a friend in my personal timeline, as it were, putting the glitch in context in the historical record of whom i met when.

    i would also very much like to have this option available on all friends pages, because i have also found it useful to refer to this for other people, to place them contextually in a similar way, or if wondering if a person is another person's alt, etc.  

    and by most recently logged in, as suggested by a friend in an update, would also be really useful if you wanted to visit friends but skip the ones who were inactive.  i've found myself wanting an indicator of inactive friends on signposts, but if this were available on the friends page that would work too.
    Posted 5 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gosh this is a fabulous first step phase...liking where this is going.  Thank you!!!!!
    Posted 5 months ago by AlmostSilver Subscriber! | Permalink
  • it's neat but my laptop takes longer to load it now.  The main pc is fine though!  I'm still clicking on the IMG button to go to my keys...and please bring back strawberry seeds!!!!
    Posted 5 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the changes, thanks for working so hard to bring the whimsy.
    Posted 5 months ago by FlatEarther Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sorry, folks, but I preferred the old friends page. Maybe in time I'll change my mind. I *do* appreciate the devs' ongoing efforts to improve in every way, even down to the smallest detail, what was already a pretty amazing game when I arrived well over a year ago!
    Posted 5 months ago by Mollie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Didn't you guys knew you could use ctr + F to find people? not anymore tho!
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love infinite pages with tons of buttons!
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm really looking forward to see google adopting this button madness! The future is inspiring again!
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • whe re ar you burka! where are you? we need you!!!
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Now I add a friend, go to friends page to check him out, and... puff, nothing, no last friends, no new friends, no first friends, all poofed.

    ...
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • poof poof poof it's all that happened there...
    Posted 5 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Its IS a major improvement, in my opinion at least.
    Posted 5 months ago by Lyrical DejaVu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just discovered that the access to
    http://www.glitch.com/friends/blocked/

    has been removed from the new friends page.  

    Don't know if it's an oversight or if that will return with round two of the Friends pages improvements.
    Posted 4 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WindBorn, I found the block list.
    From the home page I clicked Friends, and it was under the list of my online friends on the right-hand side.

    I personally would like to see the link at the top of the page.  I have a lot of friends on Glitch so my online friends list is quite long at all times.
    Posted 4 months ago by xombiekitty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's not there for me, even when I go from home page to friends page.  
    Posted 4 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Windborn, In case this applies to you, I don't think it shows up if you haven't blocked anyone.
    Posted 4 months ago by Xacau Feera Blin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Spot on Xacau Feera Blin!

    Thank you.
    Posted 4 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cheers for allowing us to sort our friends list from oldest to newest, and vice versa. x
    Posted 4 months ago by Christine Subscriber! | Permalink