Redeemer.Blog

If you haven't noticed, today we launched a new forum update, and the major change is that you can now classify people as friends and contacts. The old system only allowed you to add everyone as a Neofriend (or Ignored user).

So what's the difference between a Friend and Contact?

• Any features that you restrict to "Neofriends only" (such as online privacy) will only show to friends, not contacts
• Your friends list, if it is public, will not list contacts
• in my.neoforum, you won't see contacts in the Neofriends box.
• Pretty much ANYWHERE there is a friend feature, only users in your friends list will be considered friends.

Contacts are accessible in your my.friends page and they also show up under the PM select box when you write a new PM, as well as PM recipient auto fill.

How is this useful?

Right. Well most members have a group of friends and also people they just want to PM every so often. Mods might want to keep track of troublemakers or helpful members (yes, mods have been adding people like this for a while now).

Oh, and if you're the type who adds both friends and non-friends to your Neofriend list, and were hiding your friendslist from the public BECAUSE you have people on it that you've just been err.. stalking... well know you can switch them over as contacts and make your friendslist public. How cool is that? :P.

Friend Groups

Oh don't forget you can group friends now - at the moment this is just an organisation feature, but maybe in the future you can PM entire groups of friends :P.