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The more I think about some of the common features added to chat programs over the past 10-15 years, the more I think they were all designed by creepy techbros that don't know boundaries.

Last online status? Probably unhealthy. Yeah it's nice to know if someone is alive or not, but past that it encourages the kind of person that messages you every time you show as online or recently online. Which can be really annoying.

Read receipts? I think realizing that because someone read a message doesn't mean they're mentally prepared to respond (even to really basic stuff) is a hurdle everyone has to get over. If you really need someone to ack a message, they can just say they've acked it? Otherwise it can just... wait.

And these features being in place encourages their use. If it just shows when someone was last online, you're going to start paying attention to that. Messaging people when they do show last online recently or not when they haven't. You'll not message people that show online instead of away or offline (read: invisible). You'll get uncomfortable if you send a message that got marked as read and wonder if you did something wrong when they haven't responded an hour later, even if it's just that someone wasn't available to respond.

... Yes this is another post saying you should start using Signal.


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They're very useful if you're the kind of person that likes to spot someone typing the first message they've sent you that day and snipe them with an emote

A guilty pleasure

F-Chat's "User has entered text" is very useful but that's mainly in the context of active RP. Different use case.

the most obnoxious part is when it doesn't let you see other people's status/read indicators unless you make yours visible. like there cannot be a technical reason for that they just want to punish people for not broadcasting as much info as possible

I mean that kind of makes sense? If you've decided not to broadcast the information, then you don't receive it either. It does seem a bit one sided otherwise, but I guess that could just be another setting "share read notifications even if other user does not" ? Honestly I'd assume, perhaps incorrectly, that a user that doesn't want others to get a read receipt probably doesn't care about getting one themselves.

If nothing else there's precedent for it (Telegram's last online status), but that doesn't really qualify it as a good or bad idea.