Notification when someone accepts your friend request

[Pierce Dalton]

Title is pretty much self explanatory.

Make it optional because of course some people will feel bothered by it, somehow.

Thanks for reading, dear Valve devs.

[Psymon²]

good point.

im having to work around this by adding a nickname to someone after I add them,
then checking my "invitations sent" view to see whether the invite has been dealt with.
then searching my friends list for that nickname to determine if it was an accept rather than a decline.

some kind of "blah has accepted/declined" would be nice!!
maybe not "declined" since we're bound to get cries of "potential abuse".

maybe a section in the friends list that a "new friend" gets placed into until a chat with them is opened?

[Psymon²]

Originally posted by Ame-Angel:

Isn't that already in the Activity feed? "so and so became friends" I usually just check to see if the person I added accepted. I don't really add anyone anymore so, I don't know.

Edit: See? like this (just checked my Activity feed and saw this)

"Snow and Knuckles are now friends"

the point is that the notification comes to us, rather than us having to go look for it

and... it's not about other people becoming friends, it's about our own requests we've sent.

[Psymon²]

Originally posted by Ame-Angel:

Originally posted by Psymon²:

the point is that the notification comes to us, rather than us having to go look for it

it's about our own requests we've sent.

I know all of that already. I am just saying, people can go to their Activity feeds, if they are wondering if the person they added, accepted, they'll see "their name and person they added are now friends" on there.

I was just about to come back and edit my post for this very reason/reply lol.

I mean, I am all for receiving a notification for when someone accepts. If they don't want to add that feature, I am only mentioning another way to check.

If people can get a notification/message for when they get a warning, they can easily make that a "person has accepted" friend notification/message as well.

thanks for clarifying

too many replies in this forum are "here's a work around so your suggestion can be dismissed", sorry about that.

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Title is pretty much self explanatory.

Make it optional because of course some people will feel bothered by it, somehow.

Thanks for reading, dear Valve devs.

Great suggestion. I'm all for it, but it shouldn't be optional.

[Mr. Smiles]

An optional account notification (like new posts, etc) would be nice

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by Ame-Angel:

Isn't that already in the Activity feed? "so and so became friends" I usually just check to see if the person I added accepted. I don't really add anyone anymore so, I don't know.

Edit: See? like this (just checked my Activity feed and saw this)

"Snow and Knuckles are now friends"

The activity feed informs that, indeed. Finding that in the activity feed can be like finding a needle in a haystack, though, especially for those with many (and hyperactive) friends, because your feed can become huge.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by legit:

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Title is pretty much self explanatory.

Make it optional because of course some people will feel bothered by it, somehow.

Thanks for reading, dear Valve devs.

Great suggestion. I'm all for it, but it shouldn't be optional.

Well, I don't see the need to make it optional either... but, you know Steam users.

[Brian9824]

It should 100% be optional, anything that notifies you or interrupts you should be optional, or opt in. If everyone that wanted a notification had one added and made mandatory you'd spend more time clearing notifications then using steam.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Wait, why would you not allow a notification to be optional?

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by KittenGrindr:

Wait, why would you not allow a notification to be optional?

Maybe you should re-read the op.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Originally posted by KittenGrindr:

Wait, why would you not allow a notification to be optional?

Maybe you should re-read the op.

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Originally posted by legit:

Great suggestion. I'm all for it, but it shouldn't be optional.

Well, I don't see the need to make it optional either... but, you know Steam users.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by KittenGrindr:

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Maybe you should re-read the op.

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Well, I don't see the need to make it optional either... but, you know Steam users.

Not sure what's your point, I clearly said it should be optional.

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Originally posted by KittenGrindr:

Wait, why would you not allow a notification to be optional?

Maybe you should re-read the op.

This and maybe he should consider that no steam notifications are optional.

[MrL0G1C]

+1 no brainer to have a notification

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by brian9824:

It should 100% be optional, anything that notifies you or interrupts you should be optional, or opt in. If everyone that wanted a notification had one added and made mandatory you'd spend more time clearing notifications then using steam.

LoL. So you're adding like 10 friends a day?