Is there any way to change it once you've already allowed them to? Will Skype eventually fix this? I don't want to block them, I just want certain people to not see my status, but still be able to contact me if they need to. This is really annoying. Nothing I do works.

Do not double post.
I already responded.
If you want to make a suggestion do so in suggestion forum

Moved to suggestions

If you are willing to let them contact you, then why can't they see your status? No other IM clients support this kind of feature, it would like being able to send messages to someone who is offline because you know they are really on.

Either block them or deal with it. I think your being too picky.

What I'm asking for is the option to unauthorise someone. I only ask this because the option to let them see your status comes up when they add you or you add them and if you let them do that then there's no way to undo it. So Skype does offer this ability, unlike what you said, but they don't allow you to change your mind once you've authorised someone to see your online status. It's just that I'd like the ability to allow them to contact me through Skype if they really need to but not have them see my online status as an invitation to start calling or chatting every time. I know there's the invisible function, but I don't want all of my contacts thinking I'm not available. So it's just the ability to unauthorise that I'd like to see added.

Also didn't know this was moved over here, so I added my suggestion to someone else's thread with a similar suggestion (after I did a search) before I saw this.

You fail to add you edited out the poor tone of your original post!

At first I apologised for the all caps in the title but then realised I could change it, so I didn't see the point in keeping it in the post.

Ok asking for the ability to un-authorize is a legitimate request. It is interesting to note that other chat media that require (or provide optionaly) authorizations ... like ICQ, MSN, Jabber ... all do not have the ability to un-authorize either.

Maybe there is a more technical reason this has not been implimented. If not, then sure, its a good request.

I searched throuh the forum and crossed this post of you; I want this too!!!

TIA

P.S.
Gladiator, the original poster brought this in as a suggestion.
That other products dont or cant do it, has nothing to do with his suggestion.
Accept his post as a suggestion, if you are in a position to do so. If you are not in that position then I have got a question for you: why do you care the label: Super user? Dont bother to answer. I can guess the answer allready

[quote=Sijf_Roos]I searched throuh the forum and crossed this post of you; I want this too!!!

TIA

P.S.
Gladiator, the original poster brought this in as a suggestion.
That other products dont or cant do it, has nothing to do with his suggestion.
Accept his post as a suggestion, if you are in a position to do so. If you are not in that position then I have got a question for you: why do you care the label: Super user? Dont bother to answer. I can guess the answer allready
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He is a moderator, and the original poster violated forum policies.

It has nothing to do with the suggestion, but the fact that other IM clients have it does have a lot to do with the suggestion.

But thank you for replying to lecture us all.

ICQ has/had the ability to modifiy this for individual users and not everyone on your list. I think it's annoying and impolite to be contacted by certain individuals everytime they see that you are online.

I am surprised that as mature of a product that Skype is, that the only functionality that you have is to hide your status to everyone (not really an answer to the situation) or to block the individual user (which could start problems with your relationship as you'd have to explain how annoying and intrusive the other person can be at time.)

Changing the users ability to see whether or not you are online is the most polite way of saying that you aren't interested in communicating. I also wish that this would be integrated as I see that it is lacking and view it more as a bug more than a lack of a feature.

there is other request in sugestion : basicly it would be assign different view mode for group - I like it better.

A classic example of why this would be a useful feature - even as someone suggested, to be able to set your status for groups of contacts. I live and work in North America. Many of my contacts are work contacts. However I have family and friends in Europe. My dear Dutch cousins come home after a hard day's work, and are relaxing during the evening, feeling a bit social, and see that I'm on Skype, and decide wouldn't it be nice to call me and chat for awhile.

Meanwhile it's 2:00 in the afternoon for me, at my busiest time of the day and I simply have no time to speak with them!

I know that I've offended them at times by not responding (you can only get away with 'I was away from my desk' so many times). I think this would be a valuable (and distinguishing) feature.

Cheers,

-J.

Sounds like an interesting idea.

Allthough it might be easier to achieve the same ends by adding more status messages.

"At work" might be appropriate.

I still think it would be best to have the granular control to perform this on a group or individual level... not just an additional "at work" status that still reveals that I'm online and actively using my computer.

There's one individual on my list that I can't see their status because they put themselves in a permanent invisible status so they are able to see when I'm online, but I can't ever see when they are online. I want my business partners to see when I'm online and changing my global status to "invisible" causes confusion for people I actually want to talk to on a regular basis.

The problem is that you can't revoke the access after you give it to someone. You can only permanently block them and then you can never communicate with them for any reason.

ICQ has this ability... to change your status for any individual user. But then again, that ICQ has a client-server relationship and not a peer-2-peer operation like Skype. (But doesn't Skype connect to a central server to pull your contact list? Perhaps a default status flag can be set, saved and later retrieved upon start-up.)

I can see where such a feature would have relevence for you.

As a work-around you can always block a contact to prevent them from seeing your status and then unblock them later on. I've done that a few times.

So is there a solution yet? Any plug-in that offers selective status changing for different contacts or groups?

I don't see why you used this "offending" tone, he had a reasonable explanation
Don't chase away forum users!
No there isn't yet! This has been asked and suggested already several times.

I vote in favour of the suggestion!

- when i'm at work, i only want to be available for co-workers
- when i'm at home, i only want to be available for my friends

simple as that... infinite to the one who hacks a selective status plug-in!

Hello Gentleman.

I can understand the need of a person who started this topic.

Many people are using Skype for business, and as the contact list grows in numbers, more and more people might bother you.

In Poland we have several Polish communicators like Gadu-Gadu or Tlen, that are so popular, practically nobody uses American ones.

And they all do have this very handy feature - you simply right-click on the contact on your list, and select "hide my status from this user".
It's more polite than to tell someone to leave you alone.

Imagine a situation lie this: - I did some work for a client, it's finished and all. I don't want to kick him off the contact list, but I allso do not wish him to be able to see my status - it's none of his business.

Therefore, adding an option that lets you hide your status from chosen people on your list, is a very handy feature one and I hope that good people from Skype will ad it soon :)

Cheers.

yes i miss this features too

it will be very usefull if skype has a invisible list at least like ICQ

some option not to block but be invisible to this user something like that

I also see a good reason for this enhancement.

As a company, myself and colleagues use Skype for our internal communications. HOwever, some of our customers sometimes get hold of our Skype user IDs and request to be added to our contact list.

It is sometimes useful to be able to contact them to get more information on a support question but at the same time, we don't want them submitting support questions to us via Skype. This happens when they see us online. Being able to show or not show status for individual users would be helpful for this.

I think adding this on a user and group level would be great.

this might be a good idea

yes, i also fully support this suggestion!!

i think that there are many arguments in favour or this feature and the current system of having to block and unblock people or be invisible is cumbersume and impractical.

please skype, add this feature!!

I completely agree this feature is necessary.

As has been explained the requirement for people to see you are online changes through the day.

In my case I travel a lot internationally and it is a real pain that at some aweful time in the morning when you MUST talk online that someone calls for a chat.

If it could be linked to the contact list this would be good, so that making a sub group would then only show online to those in that list.

At the moment I must just be invisible to prevent that situation which sort of goes against the Skype ethic.

Richard

Also in favor of this suggestion!

At the moment I have most of my co-workers in MSN and my friends and family in skype for that reason. At the end of the workday I can just log off from MSN and log in in skype. That is also a very strong reason why I dont want to add my co-workers in skype.

It would be great if it would be possible to choose different status for different groups.

Although I can see how many would find this useful, I think the majority of people would be confused as to how this works, and it would reduce the confidence people have in the Skype contact list.

There would be thousands of support tickets and forum posts saying "MY HUSBAND BOB IS ONLINE I KNOW HE'S ONLINE BUT TO ME HE SHOWS AS OFFLINE OMFG FIX IT NOWNOWNOW"..but really, Bob is talking to another woman on Skype and doesn't want his wife to know.

Just saying. Could cause some drama.

Well, we use skype as main communication application in the company. We have all the internal communication via skype and also with our customers. There are definetly a lot of situation when you are at a customers site and another customer tries to reach you permanently and you cannot answer it (they are not happy with "I don't have time now"). So we DESPERATLEY want this "invisible for group" feature. And this is only one situation where this is necessary.

Also after work I want to chat with my friends and not be seen by my coleagues

So telling that there would be a lot of trouble tickets is just a way of saying "our more 'simple' users are overstrained with our product" or "We don't want to do it". Our CEO is very happy with skype, but he thinks about changing the product because of the lack of this feature.

This seems like such a no-brainer feature to me that I'm surprised Skype doesn't have it. I agree with the sentiment that it is more of a bug than a "missing feature." Works fine and smoothly in MSN...

"I think the majority of people would be confused as to how this works..."

What's so difficult to understand???

"There would be thousands of support tickets..."

With all due respect, these excuses sound like someone who doesn't feel like implementing it coming up with paper tigers to justify not bothering with something that a lot of people have been asking for, and for a number of years already.

PLEASE. I'm begging you. I need this in Skype. This should have been part of Skype version 1.

Let's put it this way: I use skype at work. Some people insist on messaging me and monopolizing my time, but I can't block them (bad for business), and there are actually legitimately times that they do need to communicate with me. Because of this, I hardly use skype at all, only logging when I'm told so-and-so is looking for me. Due to this, I do everything I can to avoid giving new clients my skype username, only doing so when they insist I use skype to contact them.

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I fully second this request too. It's a completely reasonable suggestion and makes perfect sense. Furthermore, it's surprising given just how many times so many persons have requested same that it *still* hasn't been implemented. (I trust that this forum is actually read by skype's developers!...)

Also, if skype is so worried about additional support tickets from its implementation then they could e.g., have the feature enabled as a 'beta feature' with a window box api confirmation which must be ticked and which asks the end user's understanding that it is a beta & unsupported feature and absolutely no support or online help will be given for its use. And, only on this understanding - the feature may be enabled. That would solve all worries about additional support requests from clueless users! But methinks that surely is an unnecessary worry as it's really not so complicated to understand.

Besides we're not all idiots!

just be invinsible

"invinsible" !???? ????

Oh dear, it seems our presence has been graced by someone with something useful to say But surely you attempted to say "invisible"! ...in which case it's also glaringly obvious that you completely misunderstood the points made in this thread. And you're input was, I'm sorry to say, really quite useless. (Anyone else thinking of adding to this thread would be well advised to try and understand what is being asked and follow the examples given, and then even a person of average intellect should be able to comprehend that what is being sensibly requested differs greatly from any feature which offers at present)

Even though it is a good idea I don't think it will ever happen because Skype is a P2P type program and does not rely on servers to store peoples status like messenger and other IM programs.

Don't see why that should be an issue. Can't a user's personal preferences be saved locally and those preferences be used to register their status in other user's windows?

ICQ, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo IM, etc., all have this as a basic feature. I don't see streets littered with IM'ers all dazed and confused by the overwhelming complexity of determining their online status preferences. Skype should have it. I like Skype, I would like to get more people onto it, but this is the one reason why I recommend MSN for the majority of my contacts.

And they are all server based, Skype is not it is P2P that is when when you send say a chat message on the options it is saved on there server and even if the person who sent it is NOT on line at the time you are you still receive the message, as you know with Skype this is not so because you message is save locally on you PC and sent when the other party and you are on line at the same time.

Interesting point, Rocketman. Too bad it has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Do everyone a favor: in the future, read the posts that you are replying to before you opine upon it. You may enjoy listening to yourself talk, but it wastes everyone else's time. What's more, over 14,000 posts in three years is way too much, dude. You need to get out. Might I suggest sailing:

http://www.costa-brava-sailing.com/index.php


P2P vs. server is immaterial for status settings. Each user's preferences can be stored locally, and those preferences would be polled by other user's windows to determine their appearance in that user's window.

The only thing stopping this from happening is somebody in Estonia deciding that this feature is something nobody should have. Probably from some utopian ideal of "everything should be public & open, nothing should be private..."

When I want you comments on how, when and what I should post I will ask you until them please keep you opinion about me and other people who try to help on here to yourself. I suppose because you have may JUST the one post you think you ar king of the castle and know it all,

If as is seem you seem to know it all why not make a suggestion or tell Skype developers here. and lets see what they have to say about it.

Hi! It's funny that it's been over 2 years, and skype is still unable to add this simple yet very required feature... Can You PLEASE add this??

I'm reviving this post from the dead (again), as I really would like to have a selective invisible feature.

Hi...

there are so many requests for this feature here in the forum.
And i can understand Kevin Delaneys demurs.
But there are many ways to develop this feature without the need that anybody gets confused about it.

At example:
You can have a special "unvisible"-group by default. Additional show a link "What this mean?" where you explain "contacts in this group doesnt see your online status".
OR
You introduce a special icon for contacts which wouldnt see your online status
OR
You see it as an "professional"-feature and put it in the background of the main app as "extended settings"
OR... OR... OR...

Are there really no thoughts about this feature?
So many people would be really grateful.

@rocketman:

Reason that Skype is P2P doesn't make sense what your client send to other clients, does it?

Client loads, user logs in, then:
1. Msster server sets the presence to "online"
2. Your client checks for other "online" users.
//note - when you are invisible you are ONLINE really!
3. Then, your client requests statuses of the users
- The other client checks is that user set YOU to other status than your public one and sends you desired status.
4, Then the icon becmes visible or not, depending of what data is received.

this is the algorithm, just the developers must not be very lazy and implement it.

After this algorithm, it's more more... 10 ties more easy to implement:
1. global presence (and put skype me back in!)
2. per-user presence (will show differently in the contact list)
3. Per group presence - and this is the most useful option.
4. Option "Login as [ststus]" and [advanced] button to set intial status for all groups
5. Option "Remove authorization".

This will make skype BETTER than other softwares, and, ofcource, such option can PERFECTLY work through P2P!

@ severeal others :

To unauthorize user, you must delete him from "Authorized contacts" and then to restart the skype client.

I would like to reiterate the need for this feature, for the same reason made in previous posts: mixed business and personal use. I am quite happy to see the status of, and advertise my status to, friends and family, but there are business and professional contacts who I rarely communicate with, but have no reason to block.

Having communicated with someone once on Skype, it seems quite inappropriate to then have to share your every online moment with them!

Isn't it just a matter of being able to change the status to the one you get if you initially select "Do not allow this person to see when you are online"??

voting for adding this feature
be invisible on a per contact basis would be much appreciated!

Hi all, I see this as an important feature, I second it!

I would add that I would like very much to be able to personalize the standard status descriptions.

For example, in the Italian version of skype, the translation of "not available" is "non disponibile", which in Italian sounds like "I am here but I am too busy to answer".

I would like to have instead a translation like "non presente" or "non raggiungibile" .

May be different interpretations could be possible for different cultures, languages and groups: being able to personalize the status messages would solve the problem

Thanks in advance!
--Francesco Virili

Everyone who wants this feature implemented, please go here and leave a comment: Skype Dev zone Feature Request

It's the "official" feature request for this in the developer section of the Skype site.

You probably have to create an account to be able to comment (just your Skype username and pw).

Maybe we can bump this item up in the rank and get it into the next version...

P.

I would also want this feature. I've always wondered why this is possible on ICQ, but it is not present for Skype. It is extremly necessary. At least to be possible for a certain group so you can put all this people in this group.

Bump.

I do have personal and professional contacts in my contact list....I want this feature too.

I don't think there is any type of technical restrictions that prevents Skype from implementing this.

And here's the deal: maybe the reason it is not implemented is just a Skype strategy to generate more communication between Skype users.

However, because I don't want to get harassed when I'm at home, I just turn Skype off. So I talk to ppl when I want, they do not talk to me. How's that for a strategy?

Skype, please develop this.

PLEASE Skype build this feature for your good customer here

Be Healthy, Be Good

This thread has been on for two years, but there does not seem a feature in skype yet that allows to assign different online status to different contacts. Like for some people who are very good friends I would like to set it to "skype me!", but for the annoying ones that say "hi" and "how are you" 5 times a day I'd rather have "do not disturb".

So far, skype makes the unrealistic assumption that all contacts are equal.

i have found my friend (skype name:- xenonrexy ) .. after 10 ten year on skype .. i add him bt i think he might not using skype id .. he is not adding or replying .....kindly do something or tell his email adress ...thnx