Hard to create new connections with developers that aren’t on my friends list

[TimeFrenzied (of Xyaery)]

A while ago, the change was announced that non-friends who view your profile will not be able to see your last online/online status; as opposed to a manual offline mode. This was done to protect user’s privacy, but no choice was given to the user.

I believe that it would be better to separate these into settings, at least for >13 users, which would make everybody involved happy. Keep in mind this is just my proposed solution to the problem and may be flawed in some areas. Feel free to message me if you have any ideas or if I messed something up.

Who Can See When I Am Online?	Who Can See If I Am In An Experience?	Who can see when I am in Studio?	Who can see when I was Last Online?
(any setting from “Who can join me in experiences?”, hopefully, we can make a list of people in the future)	ditto	ditto	ditto
(Overrides the “Who can join me in experiences?” setting, if this is set to no-one, for example, this will prevent anyone from joining you without changing the “Who can join me in experiences?” setting.	Seperate from the “Who Can See When I Am Online?” setting. People will be able to see you online when you are in-game but not otherwise. Ditto, overrides the join setting.	If enabled, there will be an option to show what game you’re creating, preferably separate from this option (In case someone wants to, for example, show they are in studio to everyone, but what they’re working on to friends.) (e.g Who can see what game I’m making?). Also useful since studio loves to override the in-experience status.	well this is unrelated

If these were changed into settings, it would benefit people who don’t want this information visible, as they can turn it off (and also, as it is visible to friends by default, some people don’t want that), and it would benefit people who do want this information visible, meaning nobody’s privacy is invaded. Some notable use-cases for wanting this information to be visible in this topic. TL;DR trading, finding developers, archiving information on old/inactive accounts

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience as I’d be able to see if non-friended developers were actually active on the website.

Here's some other (or similar!) popular use-cases for this feature.

@sparkling_cola

I extensively use this feature as a developer connecting with other developers. The endpoint is a great tool for me to gauge whether starting a correspondence with another user is worth the trouble because it dilutes my decision-making to only two options:

A: users who haven’t been online for months up to years are less likely to see my message. As such, they won’t respond.

or B: users who have been online recently, most likely will see my message and respond back

Knowing when option A applies is great. Because option B requires some effort to start a correspondence with the desired user. My current modus operandi for doing this is as follows

1. Use the messaging tab (rest in piece, thnx dave)
2. Use the messaging tab on the Developer forum (most likely doesn’t work because the desired user is not a devforumer)
3. Look at their groups and join respective Discord servers and ask around for their user (which is a headache because its a guessing game because many times, users are not in any servers corresponding to groups they are in)
4. Initiate contact with users on the friend list of the desired user and ask to be referred back to the latter. (a headache too)
5. Nothing worked? bad luck.

Removing the endpoint will force me to always go for option B. Which only serves to waste my time and annoy me.

@EmperorDitto

as a trader, I need to see if the person I’m sending a trade to is active or not. Otherwise I’ll be sending trades to inactive people who haven’t logged on in years, thus wasting my time

@SpookerMe

This feature was really useful for documenting retired developers on the platform and I personally used it to check up on old friends.

@Sir_Highness

I do use this information to prune my friends list every few months.

@RealGvistic

Bumping this since it’s been recently re-introduced. Please give us an option to not show others our activity on studio other than completely turning off joins.

@pyxfluff

I really like having it displayed on my profile tbh… forcing it disabled for everybody isn’t the way