Redesigned Member List (Friends Group, Minimization, & Offline Members in Groups)

The member list needs more organization options. This is especially true with very large servers. Users should have the ability to hide groups in the list. I also think that offline members should still appear in their respective groups. That would make keeping track of who all is in which group much easier. That may lead to issues in large servers with offline members crowding the groups, which is why users should also be able to hide offline members. If possible, this could be more than a simple setting that hides all offline members entirely. Similar to right clicking a channel and muting specific channels rather than the whole server, you could right click groups and hide offline members of specific groups.

The way I thought the merge would work is display offline users at the bottom of the group they are placed in. The counter on groups that tells you how many are in each group would account for offline members, but if members in the group are offline there would be a parenthesis stating how many of the members in the group are online. As you can see in the photo (below), Group One is minimized and the 3 people in the group are offline. The number after the dash will always be the number of people in the group, offline or not. If no-one is online, it will say 0. If everyone is online, there will be no parenthesis as that wouldn't be necessary.

Another feature I think many people would find useful would be the option to enable a "Friends" group that appears above all other groups. I don't know if I'm in the minority, but I find that "Friends" in Discord is a function I rarely find myself using. People who more often voice call singular people probably use it more often, but in my Discord experience I've felt that whether or not I've actually added someone as a friend never made any impactful difference. Adding the "Friends" group feature in servers would bring more functionality to the friends list.

This would work by displaying all members that the user is friends with at the top of the list in their own group, allowing quicker access to them in the server. It would simply be a "Friends" group and will always be on top with the option to disable in the user settings. As you can see in the photo, the member in the Friends group is a member of Group Two, but with the "Friends" group enabled they are taken from that group and placed in the "Friends" group. Because the "Friends" group would be client side and is specific to the user, the count for Group Two is unaffected, which is why it still lists 7 people when only showing 6.

I added a photo (below) to showcase most of the changes I suggested in this post. Please offer any criticism on what might be a negative change and please let me know what you guys think might be better. Also, please excuse the stupid names in the photo, I made them up on a whim.