This is inspired by the holiday calendar plugin feature which adds flair and a decoration to @usernames.
I work in a global community, and with a mix of volunteers who are primarily available evenings and folks who are participating as part of their work day. Itād be nice to be more aware of everyoneās availability.
So the idea: the ability to give āwork hoursā in oneās profile settings, and then have corresponding flair displayed when outside of that time.
A little off topic, but we have a couple of things which might be helpful for the āglobalā portion of your request. If you enable the display local time in user card site setting, then everyone will get their local time displayed on their user card. For example, on our internal instance, my user card looks like this:
We also use this theme component to help visualize timezone overlaps:
Admittedly, neither of these let people define their own āworking hoursā, so they donāt solve the day/evening part of your suggestion.
Yeah, letting others see that theyāre notifying you but youāre not likely to be around is helpful. (Iām not clear on how this works with email notifications[1] ā do they then all get sent when the pause ends?)
Although, for a volunteer community āI want notificationsā and āthese are my actually available hoursā are separate concepts. Maybe okay enough to leave them linked, though. Iāll have to think about articulating this more clearly.
Iād actually also love a way to do longer-term one-off scheduling of things like āOn vacation this (future) weekā, not just regularly-scheduled hours. Like the vacation calendar that inspired this in the first place, but linked to the status feature ā maybe in a way that avoids a lot of all this. But thatās a separate idea from this.