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Player Status: Busy (FEATURE)

Suggestion:
There should be a way to show you are busy, like instead having a green circle when online, you should be able to change it to show you are busy. You can do this on settings and the circle will turn red. This feature would be interesting because sometimes players won't know someone is busy and don't want to play. This would be similar to several applications, like Skype and Discord.
Like if agree please!
If you are busy, maybe you could just disconnect from Lichess ?!
I don't really see the added value
As much as I like the idea, it is complex and right now the way to indicate being busy is to decline challenges.
The problem here is that you'd manually have to indicate that your status is "busy", and often if something comes up, it won't cross your mind "oh I should change my status", so it's easily messed up.
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add to that
some people will just set it to busy and forget changing it back, making it practically useless
I like the idea. Maybe if you're online but are inactive for X amount of minutes the idle orange/red circle replaces the green one. I understanding forgetting to change your status might be a small issue, but I'd say the feature itself outweighs its flaws.
Having a way to indicate player inactivity (or activity unknown) could be useful.
It is a good idea. And I'd have not thought it beyond the wit of man to have a client-side busy indicator which can be disabled at will, or which times out after a while, and which the server can interrogate when dealing with new challenges. So you forget to reset it? Then what? You'll figure it out eventually when you don't get any challenges for a while, plus the red "you're away" indicator on your nickname would be a clue, too. Some people have no imagination. "Just disconnect from lichess" lol!
Thanks for feedback! I think the away status could also be a great addition but not sure it will be implemented since it is quite similar to being offline, but I'd say that maybe that if the player forgets to change the status, maybe lichess can detect it because of inactivity, similar to what lichess do when you are online and offline that it detects it automatically... Also there should be a way to hide your status if you are online or offline.
What if you are simultaneously connected from multiple devices and aren't clicking anything? Would you be idle or not? What if one device repeatedly commands Lichess to toggle "idle" on and another repeatedly commands Lichess to toggle "idle" off?

Can you become idle in the middle of a game?

Can you become idle in the middle of a puzzle or correspondence game?

Can you become idle while editing a study? While viewing a study?

Some people will think the idle indicator indicates whether or not a player is willing to accept challenges; others will think it indicates whether or not the player is actually there.

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