[sldev] log in offline (was Re: [sldev] Roadmap: 1.19.0 Viewer)

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-01-09, at 14:44, Tao Takashi wrote:
> So they only get Accept-messages when you go "online" again although
> you might have accepted it already? Thus some queue would be needed.

I mean you wouldn't get to accept it until you went online.

>> On the other hand I think there's privacy issues with allowing people
>> to be [in world] without showing up on the map. People wouldn't  
>> know who
>> that green dot was, just that there was someone there. When this came
>> up on the forums some [other] people did suggest that the green  
>> dots be
>> hidden if you were [logged in offline], but that suggestion didn't  
>> go down well.

> Why not have that green dot? If I have you set as not showing me on  
> the map
> it's the same situation. I don't know how that green dot is anyway  
> unless I go
> and have a look (and I guess this should still work when I am in  
> offline mode.

I think you just agreed with me under the impression that I wrote the  
opposite of what I thought I wrote. :)

Do the above corrections make more sense?

> Maybe also initiating IM conversations should work then just not  
> receiving them).

That should probably take you online, after a warning and a chance to  
cancel.