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Originally posted by Chris4
#1. It appears you can't talk to contacts when you're appearing offline, though they can talk to you.
If it's true that the block feature has been replaced by 'appear offline to', not very good if the 'blocked' contact can still talk to you. Bug?
Been wondering about that too. The (weird) way offline messaging is handled does seem to be intended to replace block (the real block function isn't there anymore). But if people can still talk to you when you appear offline to them, how to make people STFU without deleting them immediately?
I don't see any advantage in the new approach compared to how it used to work. Selectively appearing offline to people is nice... but why would you have to appear online to someone before you can message them? Even when you're sending an offline message to someone who isn't signed in to Messenger at all you will have to appear online to that person first. It's like appearing online to a brick wall.
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