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to the openstudy officials:OS is getting better everyday .thankyou everyone .I have some suggestions for furher improvement:
1.There can be owner tag with icon for a group owner
2.there can be online visibility also when we keep our cursor on the name of the person .
3.it is better if there is an automatic logout if user is not active in a group for more than 12 hours .i see many users online but most of them are away actually
hope necessary steps would be taken
thanks agan
OS is cool

Answer 1

one more :P
4.it would be great if we can search for the user in the fan list

Answer 2

5.for offline users the status should be "offline" instead of they are "looking around"

Answer 3

:)

Answer 4

Greetings AravindG,

These are some excellent suggestions! The online status is a little buggy right now, but we are working on it. We're also thinking about how groups are working right now, and we like the owner tag idea. I am going to make sure our team sees this, and I am going to put this in the bucket of ideas.

Thanks!
Darthsid
Head Unicorn

Answer 5

Well you are not allowing to create groups anymore nor join it unless you have link, so why would you need owner tag.

To search user in fan list scroll down till it loads all fans and press ctrl+f as far as i know all modern web browsers have this function and not only browsers :P One inconvenient thing may be way of loading users in portions.

Offline users are not shown as looking around, they are not shown at all, but other people do not log out or maybe just afk so they are being shown in online people list.

Answer 6

the owner tag encourages users to make groups and give them an identity as the owner of the group.its a good idea i think.
even if a user is offline when i keep my mouse cursor on his icon in a previous question he has replied to .i see "he is looking around".this misguides the reader.
if a person is fan of a lot of people its difficult for him to scroll over all of their names to find a particular person.a search bar wwould be a great help
thanks

Answer 7

thanks @darthsid

Answer 8

You CAN'T create groups anymore, so now owner tag is useless

Yes you are correct about looking around, it wasn't clear at the beginning

You don't need to scroll just hold page down button, but as I said already it would be more convenient to load whole list instead in portions rather than making separate search function

Answer 9

why arent we able to create groups now??

Answer 10

because it was disabled

Answer 11

thanks for info on ctrl+f
i didnt know that!!!its great!

Answer 12

Aravind,

A handful of these relate to user-created groups. I won't really address those since we're considering some changes that, I suspect, will render those issues moot.

In regard to online/offline visibility - There are currently bugs in how online/offline-ness is handled. Users who are offline won't show up in the list. However, the system hasn't been properly detecting when sessions expire. So, there are people who appear online who are actually not.

I think that addresses your major points.

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even if a user is offline when i keep my mouse cursor on his icon in a previous question he has replied to .i see "he is looking around".this misguides the reader

Answer 14

Ah, right, that's a problem. Good spot.

Answer 15

thx

Answer 16

hope action will be taken soon