There’s no way to see when members were last online. This has doomed the communities feature to failure since day 1 and it seems like such a simple issue to fix. The result is that over time every community fills up with characters that go inactive because people either stop playing or switch to alts, and with no way to see when members were last online there’s no way to remove them to make room for new members because of the cap, therefore every community becomes more inactive as time goes by. If community leaders could just see when players were last online this feature could be brought back to life and communities would thrive as intended.
Communities basically function like a cross-server guild, imagine if you could join multiple guilds full of active players how much that would do for the social aspect of the game. It’s amazing to me that Blizzard is letting this feature go to waste just because leaders can’t see last online status of members.
the social aspect of WoW was removed when dungeon finder tool arrived, welfare epics were given for doing solo quests and finally cross realm interactions diluting process.
xpac after xpac and blizz still don’t care, how can anyone be as so thick to not understand why people love vanilla/classic? its simply the aspect of the weight of your social input being rewarded rather than how gogogog you can do content with robot pugs. oh will someone save us
You could just kick eveyone and start over and when someone is offline for a week kick him/her… and i mean by keeping score yourself when the list is still low this way you gain more control until blizzard adds that function you talk about.
Honestly, I still can’t quite figure-out what communities are even for. I always join one, forget that I did and then get really surprised when I accidentally open the panel and realize that I am in a community at all.
To me, it just lacks any sort of integration into my daily operations. With a guild, guild chat pops up, which reminds me that I am a part of a guild and seeing the chatter encourages me to interact with it, perhaps by helping a guildie with a quest, or joining them on a dungeon run.
But with a community, there’s absolutely nothing unless I go out of my way to open the panel and see what’s up. Something I rarely (never) have an incentive to do. As far as I’m concerned, communities are just chat rooms with a theme. A bit like Discord channels, but worse.
Its not always up to others to give you an incentive to talk sometimes you need to start the conversation yourself and you dont do that by not caring at all if your in a community or not because if thats the case you can better leave it in my opinion…
Wow it’s really bad that you can’t see when someone was last online. I lead a community in another mmo and we remove members who become silently inactive. I say silently because we don’t remove anyone who informs us that they will be absent. It would be quite difficult to keep the roster feeling alive if we could not see who is and isn’t regularly active.
I probably would have had to make a spreadsheet if I still wanted to clean out inactive members if I was unable to see when they last logged in. While that is a solution, it’s not an elegant one because the absence of a minor ui change results in the player putting in a lot of work just to do basic maintenance of a community. Furthermore it makes no sense that this information is available for guilds but not communities.
I wonder if someone made an add-on to assist with this situation.
While I agree that the ability to see last login should be added and should have been there from the start there is a way to to keep track of people who are offline for a long time or just don’t pay any attention to the community.
Lets say you want to allow members to be offline for a month before kicking; you give them a number or a letter to put in their note and a month later you kick the ones who don’t have the correct one or don’t have one at all. Then you just repeat this process every month. That is how most communities I’ve been in do it.
You can add the community channel to your regular chat so you can see it just like guild or any other channel.