Design Suggestion: lose CANCEL FRIENDSHIP

[Ron]

That cancel friendship as the call to action on all your friends is kind of jarring and off-putting. Please consider hiding that behind a more button or something. Please. It’s a social network.

[Sol Huebner]

I think it comes from BuddyPress but a +1 from me to hide it on the members list at least

[Ron]

It’s really rough on my friend’s profile pages as well. Just a big bright “cancel friendship” button – not exactly what I want to think when I’m visiting my friend’s profile to see what’s happening with her dogs.

And I am in no way trying to be provocative, it really affects me when I see it so visibly attached to people who I want to be connected to.

[Douglas]

I agree that should go or at least not be as visible make it a drop down

[Alyssa]

@pawsitivevybe @rugwarrior @ttpgolf14 I have sent this request to our designers, hopefully they can figure something out that looks good and is still intuitive.

[Daniel]

+1, it’s too prominent on the page.

[angslycke]

+1!! Thanks for bringing this up, this issue is really annoying. I want to encourage my users to send each other messages and mention each other, and that’s not intuitive now with the hidden “…” button menu.

May I suggest a small panel with buttons if space is an issue? Perhaps a +-sign with a silhuette for adding a friend, a @-sign for mentions and an envelope sign for private messages. The cancel friendship button can be hidden behind a “…” sign or moved away completely. We don’t want to encourage people to remove their friends.

I think you can find the above mentioned icons in Font Awesome for retina support.

[Anonymous]

We’ll work on this for a future release.

[Anton]

Thanks, @michael! This was always a lame design from BuddyPress, so it’s always nice when theme designers correct that mistake. 😉

I take it that it’s not in the update coming this week?

[Anonymous]

@antonkawasaki @angslycke

It’s actually out now, pushed the update earlier today. If you go to a user’s profile the main button now says “Private Message” and Cancel Friendship is in the dropdown. If you’re on Members directory, there is no Cancel Friendship button at all. You must got to their profile to see it. There is a Cancel button on your Friendships page in your profile, as that page is designed to manage your friendships specifically.

[Ron]

Boom! Sweet!

Thanks a bunch. Much more friendly and social.

Peace~
Ron

[Ron]

Oh, just noticed, the cancel friendship is still a problem on the “members” pages.

Please consider applying the same, or similar fix to the members page.

[Tobias]

I have “BuddyPress Follow” Plugin installed. So for me, now i don’t see the “friendship” button, but the “follow/unfollow” button. Is there a way to fix it? Because i would bet to not be the only one using follow-plugin.

Also in the Members section it looks like something could be done with follow/private message..?

[Anton]

@snikay When you have the “BuddyPress Follow” plugin (as I do), the add/cancel friendship stuff gets pushed into the “…” drop-down menu next to Follow/Unfollow. I think it’s much better this way!

[Tobias]

Right! I was just thinking, as this update came out, it would be nice to have it working the same way with “BuddyPress Follow” plugin. But while talking..maybe you’re right and i stay with the button as it is 🙂