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[Messenger] Change 'Appear offline' to 'Appear unavailable'

Submitted by JTaylor69 on September 19, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

At the moment the statuses are:

- Available
- Busy
- Away
- Appear Offline

The appear offline doesn't match in my opinion.

Change it to:

- Available
- Busy
- Away
- Appear unavailable

to match the 'Available' status.

I know it's not a huge issue, but it would only be a simple change.

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Discussion (3 comments)

Ensign Joe wrote on September 22, 2009, 8:09am

I'd rather prefer if they changed the Available to Online :P

patternjake wrote on September 26, 2009, 1:57pm

+1 I agree, it seems more logically correct.

burnblue wrote on November 17, 2009, 3:25pm

No, you're talking about different things.

"Available" is in contrast to "Busy" or "Out to Lunch", "Away", 'Idle", or whatever. All are Online statuses.

"Appear Offline" is exactly what it says, I don't want it to be seen that I'm logged in to Messenger.

So Online/Offline... Available/Busy. Those are the complements, and they match.

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