Oh I think you're right, I think there is per-user control for notifications.

That is strange, for sure. But best not to assume things. It is his account, after all, he can block whomever he wants.

Crono said:
Nib, that's strange. Are you sure there was no reason? :P

One thing I like having with my steam friends list is people I'm actually some sort of friends with, not just acquaintances. It doesn't make sense to have a giant list of 100 people or something (that's what communities are for) where you don't have direct contact with the people very often.

I can tell you that, "Blah blah blah has signed on" gets annoying fast.

Also, spy is not the term for that ... stalker is. :P

Haha yes stalker is the word I was looking for

Haha but it wasn't like that, there was this annoying fellow (believe me, I am not one of those guys who have about 80 fake friends and only 20 real friends at steam. This just used to be a good friend but apparently is an asshole) and I wanted to check if he was online at the moment, and that's when I noticed larchy was online. I signed in, and he wasn't there.

There can't be a good reason, we always used to play matches in Left 4 Dead 2, and if he thinks I was annoying (for whatever reason) he couldn't just mentioned it and I'd have remained quiet.

Edit: Oh and I think I remember that you can change the notifications per user

Lack of programmers isn't really the issue.

Nib, that's strange. Are you sure there was no reason? :P

One thing I like having with my steam friends list is people I'm actually some sort of friends with, not just acquaintances. It doesn't make sense to have a giant list of 100 people or something (that's what communities are for) where you don't have direct contact with the people very often.

I can tell you that, "Blah blah blah has signed on" gets annoying fast.

Also, spy is not the term for that ... stalker is. :P

Crono said:
Obviously, Larchy is gone

He's still online at steam quite often where he, for no reason, blocked me.
On my friends list of steam via the internet I can still see him being online at some moments.

Not being spy-ish at all

Like I said, My wife is a programmer, and has written a web page from scratch for KCOS TV, its nothing like this, but I am sure given some time she could work up a nice new page, one that would be easier to fix should it need to be. I will talk to her about it tomorrow, when I get home from work.

We really need to establish that this thread is moot cause I almost went to go off topic...

Yes, dynamic pages are different :P (Though, they were very popular 10 years ago too)

Seems like the best solution is for me to not suggest solutions using my 10 year old information on web pages.

I never knew changing one word could impact so much. Wait.. I take that back. I said "Sorry" once. It was life altering.

It would change every iteration of where it's displayed. That's not a great solution.

The better solution would be to detect when there's too many words and cut it off with a " ... " in there to keep everything looking nice.

But I ran into an immediate wall when trying to fix the Spoiler tag issue. I have no idea WHY it happens. It doesn't seem to happen in the area where the spoiler code is, it seems to either happen where it's called or in the regular expression used to detect it.

It immediately felt incredibly futile since these kinds of errors seem to be persistent throughout the site, and it looks more like an issue with design, than programming logic ... so, there's not really a lot you can do to alter what's there outside of tearing stuff out and rewriting it.

My bad I guess. It just seemed possible to search out the word "Downloads" and shortening the word.. But, its really not hurting anything either.