# User status overview

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-status-overview/249413
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 19, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-status-overview/249413 "2022-12-19T20:38:27Z")
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### Author: ![mattdm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mattdm/32/216484_2.png) [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-status-overview/249413/1 "2022-12-19T20:38:28Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [User Status](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-status/240335):

I’m thinking about the new User Status feature and the older holiday calendar plugin — which never really quite worked usefully-enough for us to enable and encourage broadly (see [Calendar plugin features to make it really useful for us](https://meta.discourse.org/t/calendar-plugin-features-to-make-it-really-useful-for-us/210333)).

The new thing looks great, but it’d be nice to have an overview as well. To that end, I have three requests (which I can break into three threads if that’s useful, since they’re really very separate in scope).

1. The first, which I hope is relatively easy: **Include status on the site “about page”** ([this one](https://meta.discourse.org/about)). Ideally, that’d show the full string, not just the icon. That way, it’d be easy to quickly find the statuses of admin and moderators.

2. The second: include **a flag to indicate whether this a given status means “away” or status or just … fun.** Knowing our community, lots of people will set these for various reasons, which I am all for — but reduces the _particular_ practicality. Ideally, this would also cause _some other visual clue_, like a faded user icon or … something. The about page list could also actually sort by this, showing “present” members first. \[1\]

3. And finally: it _might_ be nice to have an actual calendar view. Maybe not showing _all_ statuses, but at least showing the “away” ones. And/or, showing the statuses of members of a given group.\[2\]

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1. A workaround for this is to choose some icon to signify absence — like the palm tree. But … on any community bigger than, say, three people, that’ll nearly impossible to keep consistent 

2. For example, the Docs team could have their own such calendar.