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Feb 3, 2018 2:35 PM
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Pretty much all social platforms these days gives us the option to be "invisible" or "appear offline" including but not limited to discord, Facebook, skype, Google hangouts etc.

It would be nice if we could hide our online status from our profile so that it doesn't show if we are online or our last time online at all.
Feb 3, 2018 2:39 PM
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Soren said:
Pretty much all social platforms these days

Good then go back to those social platforms, this is MAL not twitter.
Feb 3, 2018 3:56 PM
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I mean, I guess I understand what you mean. But I don't know if it'd be worth the trouble of MAL adding the option. It's not a bad idea, but at the same time there are downsides to it.

For instance, if I'm reading forums/reviews/recommendations and see one that I want to ask the person about directly such as posting on their profile or dm'ing them, the status part helps a great deal because if I see they haven't been online since 2014 (that happened today actually) then I'm not going to waste my time trying to create a connection there.

What is the upside of not displaying your online/offline status I guess is what I'm trying to understand? For instance, mine will literally appear online 24/7, 365 because I permanently leave my anime list tab open in my browser.


Feb 12, 2018 9:24 AM
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privacy
Feb 12, 2018 9:50 AM
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Teto

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Doubt It would be added. Many suggested many cool and useful things MAL could have but they never added those suggestions to MAL.
Feb 12, 2018 12:02 PM
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I don't know if something like this would be added, I don't know how useful it can be. Just if you want to hide the fact that you're online from some people.... I don't know.
Feb 12, 2018 1:32 PM
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But who cares if you're online or not? If someone bothers you, block them.
Feb 13, 2018 1:33 AM
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You don't want people to know that you spend the entire day on a weeb site ?



buy mochi at the mochi store
and friends at the friend store

Dec 1, 2024 1:14 PM
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I totally support this 💯
Yesterday, 10:18 AM
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Reply to Swagernator
Soren said:
Pretty much all social platforms these days

Good then go back to those social platforms, this is MAL not twitter.
@Swagernator I mean calm down, he's just suggesting what he wants and was thinking about something that might people want. I also want this. Why is anime fans look so mean.
Yesterday, 2:29 PM

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Realistically nobody is really paying attention to whether you are or are not online. Just saying.
But I'm not against this feature.

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