Your friends list, the Friend Feed, and people you might know

There are people on my friends list here on Subeta that I've been talking to for more than 20 years, and I've even slept at their houses!! Adding someone as a friend makes it a lot easier to stay in touch, so I spent some time on the Friend Feed and the Friends page.

Jelly Heart Friendship Charm
Box of Old Postcards
Peanut Butter Heart Friendship Charm
Your own updates show up in your feed. When you change your status or make a new pet, you'll see it in your Friend Feed next to everyone else's, marked "Your friends see this." The "from" filter has a Just me option if you want to look at only your own.

When a friend makes a pet and then uses a color potion on it the same day, those are one entry with one picture now. A day of new avatar looks shows up as a single strip of snapshots instead of a big card for each one. Each day has its own tab.

Some players share their big moments with everyone, not just their friends. A few of those now show up in your feed with an Around Subeta stamp, which is a nice way to find someone new. Pick Friends only in the "from" filter to hide them, or Around Subeta to see only those.

If you'd like yours to show up for everyone, there's a Share my big moments button at the top of the feed. It shares new pets, pet colors, achievements, birthdays, and contest entries, and it earns you the Say Cheese achievement. Nothing else you share changes, and you can turn any of them off in Sharing settings.

Camera
Wild Potion
Pineapple Friend Sticker
Everyone has the new Friends page now. It loads a lot faster, because avatars load as you scroll instead of all at once. You can sort by last online, and anyone who's been around in the last 15 minutes gets a little dot on their avatar. Friend requests show the newest first, along with how many friends you have in common.

People you might know is back. It suggests friends of your friends, starting with the people you have the most friends in common with, and it names a couple of the friends you share. Add someone with one click, or click the x if you'd rather not see them there.

Boardwalk Postcard
Huggy Helper Bear Plushie
Visit Lorikeet Villa Postcard
If there's someone you keep running into on the forums or in the shoutbox, add them. Subeta really is a great place to make friends!!
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Posted by Keith

Evy
Love all these updates, though my head is spinning trying to keep up with everything!
  • the sharing settings: it isn't clear to me what difference is "public profile" and "community moments"? Profile is the feed on your own profile that lists your shared items, where can you find the community moments?
  • profile status: is that the same status that we can update as in our sidebar dashboard?
StarShadow
@Bliss
It's under Friends -> Friend Feed -> sharing settings
springblom
Seriously, some of my now "real life" besties and chosen family I met here on Subeta. Always happy to make new friends, and love this update!
Bliss
@StarShadow
Where is that setting?
past
Seeing a lot of of my old Friends account say 'last seen 4 years ago' makes me feel sad a little!

This is a great feature! I miss the older internet days were we could all go just comment on each other's page/profiles on any websites and just start chatting. used to be a simpler time!

i love this feature since it makes the site feel really alive to see what everyone is up to!

(if anyone wants to talk pets or OCs or anything really feel free to send a Friend resquest or a comment! let's bring back the social aspect of Subeta!)
StarShadow
Found sharing settings in friend feed but can't find the option to stop the people I might know. ?? How do I turn it off?
StarShadow
Where is the "sharing settings" option to turn off people I know. (I hate that on face book, drives me crazy.)
Thistle
I notice I can't see the friend requests I have made when I go look at that area - only the people who have requested me. I feel it would be good to know who I sent a friend request to, because I otherwise might try requesting them again (and again). Also, it means I don't know if the request went through or not.
Blueberrii
this just reminded me all the friends i had are all gone (accounts and all) and after coming back i've not added anyone as a friend on here. But I do see the same couple people around subeta almost daily which gave me the illusion of friends XD so if anyone wants a subeta pal, Hi! Im 33 and only request is adults only :)
Marissa
Does Subeta still feel the need to notify a user when I block them?
_blackwolf_2009_
Metroid is correct. That needs to be brought back, I got blocked by someone ages ago that I never spoke to once and they have changed their name at least once or twice. I do not want to run into them by accident unknowingly.
hannahharmin
I have a friend request I sent a few months back that I can't cancel. It seems to be stuck in limbo now.
BaronOfBirchmen
Cool! Sounds like some really good additions and refinements! I really like the sound of the function where it groups pet adoption + potion change into one section!
Sopheroo
> I think deceased users should get some kind of distinction that indicates they're no longer with us? Frozen users have a strikethrough, maybe italicize deceased/memorialized users?

I mean, I think that they should have their own little user icon color. Pink's not taken by anything, if I remember correctly? Pink icons for the ones who left us would be fair :D
Keith STAFF
@Roswell Under 'sharing settings' on this page you can check a box to turn both of those off :)
artichao
i really appreciate this! <3 i'm terrible at coming out of my shell and reaching out to people, so this'll help me both make new friends and keep up with them. thank you ^^
Witch
grateful for the friends i've made here.
they have seriously turned into people i truly and deeply care for and i have subeta to thank for it.
this was just a kind reminder for me, tbh.

♥️
Roswell
Would actually love an option to turn off the "people you might know" feature, as well as keep myself from appearing to others through it. I don't send or accept random friend requests so there's no point to it for me. It's not really a huge nuisance since I'm almost never on the friends page, but it would be nice.
Sirensong
If only the site would stop being so laggy so I could enjoy all of these cool new things. :(
METROID
I think deceased users should get some kind of distinction that indicates they're no longer with us? Frozen users have a strikethrough, maybe italicize deceased/memorialized users?
ethan
i'm noticing that anytime i update my 'what to read' preferences and click save, the page only partially loads and doesn't show any content, other than the 'personal' tab of the nav bar and the banner at the top. when i go back to the friend feed link, it shows everything fine and appears to have updated my settings, but the page redirect post-save doesn't seem to work properly.
Rogue
Can we add collapsable gift lists (and perhaps default to that way)?
ethan
@Eivor me neither, i had a few like that! 😭
dalice
"People you might know" should probably filter out deceased users?
Eivor
I was not prepared to see one of my friends listed in there as "Five years ago."
Keith STAFF
@Life Anyone who had friend requests turned off already shouldn't show up in the header bar, but I'm pushing up a fix for users with stealth lat online turned on. Thanks for catching!
Life
Some of my friends who I think have friend requests blocked are listed in the "you might know" section. And some of them who have stealth mode activated might not want people to know when they were last online, that shows now for everyone on the friend page.
Faizh
cool!
Rogue
Can we please have back the option to cancel a friend request?
Skolletta
These pages look much nicer and are so functional now!
I really like that we can see when friends were last online.
Thank you for all the updates! :D
Brioche
@Keith Nice! I was going to suggest that you show us how long our friends have been inactive before Lumi rolls around but I see that you were already on top of it!
Life
Oh yes, what @METROID said is absolutely necessary, the friend page should show who has us blocked. Especially since the block feature doesn't work everywhere and we can still sometimes see people who have us blocked.
Life
Oh this is a nice update! Just fyi, changing settings in the "What you read" section kills the page, I tried it several times and I had to close the tab/navigate to another page via the address bar.
Jigglypuff
also i flopped i meant to also say THANK YOU for all these changes!! you are killing it recently w all the updates <3
Jigglypuff
fyi the dropdowns for "Profile status" "Sharing settings" and "What you read" are anchored weirdly rn- they dont seem to properly be loading under their toggles and instead shift around as whole elements so its a bit hard to navigate atm
Aurelynn
Nice updates! Thank you!
PS: do you even sleep, Keith? there has been so many changes and improvements in the last month! wow
METROID
Is the 'blocked' page no longer going to tell us who has blocked us? i liked that feature, cause then it told me who not to bug or ping by accident.

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