More granular status settings PLEASE!
While having the ability to set online status to away, DND or offline is great, more granularity is needed.
Currently your online status is the same for all servers and friends in your contact list - if you set yourself to appear offline, you will appear offline to all servers and friends.
There are plenty of cases where a user might wish to appear offline, away, or DND to the majority of their contacts but have 1 or more specific contacts they want to know they are online and available, or they may wish to appear online and available except to certain contacts.
What I propose is in addition to the existing settings, we get an override that can be used for each contact and server. If you're set to appear offline, you can go in and set yourself to appear online to this server or this contact. If you're set to online, you can set yourself to appear offline to this server or contact. It could be context sensitive and built into the right click (long tap on mobile) context menu - online status - then a flyout sub menu with “Use my status”, “Appear (offline or online, the opposite of what you currently are), “Always appear (offline or online, the opposite of what you currently are)" for each server and for each user in your contact list.
By default your status would be the way you appear to everyone, but the above would let you alter that for specific contacts for this session or permanently until you change it. This is very similar to how a lot of the old IM programs had things set - ICQ, Yahoo IM, etc.
This would give us greater flexibility in who we allow to know our online status depending on the situation
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