Being part of various support groups leads me to find a new bug in the system, which I was told about by a friend. A while ago, SL changed the Friends list to be able to use a tickbox option to allow or forbid people on your friends list from seeing you online. The idea, no doubt, was that someone who was feeling like they didn't want to drown under IMs from people on their friends list could, if they wanted, turn off the ability for others to see them online.
The problem is, that hasn't kept pace with the "publicity" function of the website, which shows who is on your friends list when you view your account. That will continue to show EVERYONE on the friends list, regardless of whether they've selected the privacy option again.
There are some vulnerable people on SL who quite value the privacy option, Linden Labs, if you're reading this - There was a good reason you introduced the friend list visibility option in the first place. Can you now make sure your own website follows the same ruleset?
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