I installed element the other day, clicking through what I thought were the most common settings.
Am I supposed to see which of my friends are on it? I see none at the moment, and one of the main things that told me that Signal was gonna happen was when I started to get notifications about yet another non techie friend getting on it.
I had the impression that it was a probing thing. Trying to figure out who in my friend list I'm interested in keeping up with. Annoying enough that I decided to uninstall the app.
For people who don't have access to Graph searches yet. Just do a BangWithFriends search in app and you will see something like "xxx, xxx, and xx Other friends are using this app." under the app description. It will return the same list at the Graph search.
That's the feature for viewing a separate feed per friend list. The basic functionality of creating friend lists and assigning them different privacy settings isn't going anywhere.
No no, but in the UI you can see what your friends are listening to (if you're added as friends). Example I found online (the right bar is the friends feed):
I'm at a loss as to how this is surprising anyone. How did people think that these apps found other users you know? This is built to support: A) finding existing people on the service and B) so they can (theoretically) send you notifications if a friend joins. If you want those features (and it seems that users do), this is the only way to do it. Admittedly, most apps are more explicit about it with a "find friends from address book," but if you want to lower the friction as much as possible, this is the way to do it.
Oh, then that confused me. Does luckycal not already have access to my facebook friends list? I thought when luckycal presented me with my friends list it wanted me to send an app invite to them all?
I still think it's a fundamentally awesome tool and all niggles can be worked out through incremental updates.
If you use your phone to search for the person (using a browser, not the app), you just get a connect option for everyone, regardless of the separation. The button just says "invite to connect", no warning about knowing them or not.
Slight issue is the invitation says you know them as a friend, but if you're going a abuse a system, do it properly.
I think the bigger problem is how do you find friends on it? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how you will be able to search the network for people you know.
My main issue is they seem to be reducing functionality, even when you pay for it.
- Why can't I see the path to other users anymore? That used to be a thing you always got. Now sometimes even a level 2 connection page won't tell you who the common friend is.
- Why can't I categorize my contacts anymore? There's still how-tos about how to do this, and they for some odd reason removed the ability to do this. LI is a much more promiscuous network than FB or others, so I need to be able to throw all the recruiters in one bucket, people I've worked with in another, and interesting people who've added me with zero other contact in yet another. I'm happy to spend the time doing the labelling, but I can't.
Hm, I think we had a slight disconnect in our topic!
In the last week or two, Facebook changed their messaging UI so that you cannot get a list of all your buddies that are online to chat (it guesses who you would care to see) among other mostly cosmetic changes. AFAIK there is no way to use the chat UI that was available a month ago now (or see if a particular person is online unless you specifically type in their name).
Am I supposed to see which of my friends are on it? I see none at the moment, and one of the main things that told me that Signal was gonna happen was when I started to get notifications about yet another non techie friend getting on it.
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