[Adium-devl] Show Offline Contacts should not be the default

[David Smith]

On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

>
> On Aug 17, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> I remember distinctly the reason I acted on #1665 the way I did -- my
>> mother had just started using Adium, and I'd explained the concept of
>> status to her... and it was very counterintuitive to her that, if
>> Adium can be told to send a message next time someome comes online,
>> something had to be done to get to those people.
>>
>> I then watched IM users for the next couple weeks and felt that most
>> non-savvy users I saw had a fairly small contact list.  It seemed
>> reasonable to default Show Offline to yes, catering to the people who
>> want things to Just Work.
>>
>> Based on the feedback seen.. and the fact that I, certainly, leave
>> Show Offline off the vast majority of time.. reverting this sounds
>> reasonable.
>
> So it seems to me we need to increase the discovery of the "Hide
> Offline Contacts" option.
>
> I definitely think that for very new users, showing offline contacts
> is the way to go, since they don't have as many buddies. But once your
> list has more than say, 30 people online at a time, showing oflfine
> conacts is cumbersome.
>
> Do we want to move the "Show Offline Contacts" option into primary UI
> somewhere?
>
> Maybe come up with a heuristic for that option as well -- if the
> initial accounts the user sets up have just a few contacts, show
> offline ones. If they have a lot, hide them. By default of course.
>
> -Colin

What about putting it in prefs? People often look there, and it's not  
(afaict) a setting you'd change frequently.

	David