Green Status needs to curate people who join. Orange scares people away.
ArcticAsper
There has been a VERY common complaint for years now that people quit trying to socialize when all their friends are on Orange status. The thing is that Orange status is the safest option when you want to curate who joins and who doesn't. But there is no middle ground between Orange and Green.
The problem, IMO, is that Blue basically already does what Green does. Green should tell people what world I'm in, but still require an invite request to join. It should tell people I'm open to hanging out, but still have the ability to curate who joins like Orange does. What is the point of Blue when Green already just leaves the door open for anyone to join at any time?
Blue should be the only option where you don't care who joins and lets people in without an invite request. Green should let people know where you are, but require an invite to join. Orange and Red can stay as they are.
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Docteh
The color codes in my opinion(IMO) are more for social indicators rather than technical.
Blue: let's get together and do a thing
Green: I'm at the mall, or Disneyland today
Orange: yes I'm on vrchat today
Red: go away I'm in the middle of something
There actually is a difference between blue and green when it comes to invite or invite+ instances. When your blue friend is in one of those instances, you cannot see where they are, but if you send an invite request, you get an invitation. I don't know if the blue user even sees the invite request. But if they're on green or orange, they'd have to respond positively to that request for you to join.
I think technical changes can smooth over some small social issues, like a little bit, but for something like this, it's more worthwhile to thing about this from a more social or human perspective. Like if there was a new social status added, should it be a yellow, or a lighter orange?
Maybe with a symbol? I don't have any strong thoughts
After writing all of this, I think changing how green works is a bad idea, a lot of people do use blue and green as indicators
Green with some black diagonal lines, like a cautionary green.
Or maybe the user gets two options for green, green-open, green-askme
Kitto Dev
I feel like this is how it should have been implemented by default.
ZidaneTOrnitier
I wanna put my Longform Short in here that I had in another similar post on this topic.
Longform short: Orange is too strict for my friends, but Green is too lax for me, and I just want a way that guides people to send Requests/Invites instead of just joining off of me, but also doesn't scare people off from even trying to send any at all, which is what happens given the way things are now.
WolfDudeGaming
I absolutely agree, this is exactly the reason I can't hang out with my friends as much as I want to. I don't know what they're doing and if they're open, and I'm too anxious and traumatized by bad friendships to ask.