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Anybody use iLike.com? It's like last.fm, kinda, just a lot newer so not nearly as mature a service. Anyway, when you view an artist's profile, there's a button you can click to indicate that you like that artist. The button toggles the "like" state, so if it's clicked again, you can "un"-like that artist.

Could we have something like that for our profiles? See, from a usability perspective (not that I've a degree in it or anything), it seems a bit odd to me that befriending someone changes the friend button to a delivery button. I think that leads to the misconception that we can only deliver to friends, which isn't the case. So since we can deliver to anyone, the delivery button should be a delivery button and the friend button should be a friend button.

Anyway. My suggestion/request is that if iconmaster is not my friend, when I go to /people/iconmaster, I see that yellow bar thing that gives me the option of befriending him, as it does now. However, if he *is* my friend, when I go to /people/iconmaster, I see an option that lets me un-befriend him.

This would be especially useful for those of us with lots of names on our friends list, a group that includes a lot of the IB "early adopters." Even when the friends list is revamped, I don't imagine you'll display 1500 names at once, so being able to go directly to a profile and remove them from my list would be really cool. A more relevant example: say I decide I only want people on my friends list who've bothered to upload avatars. I'm reading through the blog forum posts and see an avatar-less name that I know appears on my list. Well great, I want it gone. Except the name begins with.. I dunno, an "L" or something, something that would require entirely too much clicking to find. I could just click on the name in the post, go to their profile, and zap them from my list.

Thanks for reading!

Posted by justG on Apr 19, 2007 in Swap Meet | 2 comments