Custom Status

[nadonomy]

Summary
Users expect to be able to set custom statuses (Away, Do not Disturb, On Holiday, Visiting the France office, etc...) in productivity contexts, and they're a nice to have in most others.

Intended Outcome
Support custom statuses. Consider setting autoresponders for people contacting you when away to receive an automated reply.

[Sorunome]

You can already PUT a status_msg, though? https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#put-matrix-client-r0-presence-userid-status element just doesn't display them anywhere.

[ddmesh]

Long time since last update on this issue. It is really important to allow people to hide their online status. currently all messengers do support hiding the online status.
I have seen that there is an api call "set_presence" which allows this. but this such a configuration should be available in client.
As users may install different clients, a server side (home server) configuration for the whole account which controls the
online status, would be great.

In LABs flags there is no flag that allows to being "offline", only the read receipt can be muted.
Ar there any plans to set this issue to a higher priority?

Thanks a lot

[JesusLV]

Is there any update about this ticket?. Will be helpful to have this feature in our Team

[benedikt-wegmann]

Many requests for this feature.

Additionally, critical voices make this into a privacy feature as well if there were an "invisible" option. Currently - in theory - the forced online/idle status when using a company instance would allow the "tracking" of a user's/employee's activity/inactivity by any other user on the service.

[RightInTwo]

It's weird to me how such a basic feature that even has an appropriate endpoint is not available on a client modern chat with such bold claims - just like a "send later" feature. If users come from competitors and miss many of the modern features they got used to and integrated in their workflows, they might be disappointed in what can be offered.

EDIT for clarification: I might be was mistaken about the API's capabilities, because it's not the only thing that can change a Status.
https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#get_matrixclientv3presenceuseridstatus and https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#put_matrixclientv3presenceuseridstatus

EDIT2: Thanks @defnull for the explanation - it's a matrix limitation. And why should it be easy? :) I changed my comment accordingly.

[defnull]

If I read the spec correctly, then clients can set the online status explicitly, and also avoid to be automatically marked as 'online' when polling the /sync endpoint. But 10.8.2.1 says "Any activity that bumps the last active time on any of the user’s clients will cause the server to automatically set their presence to online." which means that there is currently no way to implement a reliable 'Incognito' or 'Invisible' mode on client side. Any "pro-active event" (e.g. sending a message) from any device will set the status to 'online' and trigger m.presence events.