Active/Idle/Away Status

[pvanspronsen]

Problem
There is currently no way to know if a user is available or not. In some situations a user might need an immediate answer to a question, but their message will go unanswered because they are not aware that the recipient is unavailable.

Solution
Does matrix track user activity? Can we tie into anything like that to provide a visual indication of when a user is active, Idle for a set period of time, or logged off?

Alternative Solution
None.

Additional context
No.

[abrenoch]

Sounds like this is something that was initially added, but got removed because it was buggy/unreliable:
matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk@91a4139

Seems like something they want to add in but need to hammer out some problems first.

However, you can see if a user is offline when in the same room by hovering over their name in the list (they also grey out when not online)