> Some explicitly allow people to fake/hardcode their status That's not an issue with the tech, it's an issue with the people. I'm not shooting off messages wi

> Some explicitly allow people to fake/hardcode their status That's not an issue with the tech, it's an issue with the people. I'm not shooting off messages with no idea of whether they'll arrive, I'm at least trusting the person's intended availability. If they're just being an ass and marking themselves as perpetually unavailable, that's an issue I'd take up with their manager. In my experience, modern systems like slack and discord (and even hipchat) work well enough with their availability indicators. Chat apps five years ago I would not trust as much.