We don't show typing status
i'll take it one further and say that having a messenger app that shows "online" or "active" status is not something I like. In addition to the problems with having an app that sends an indicator to the other party that somebody is actively typing.I like how Signal just shows that the person exists as a contact. Whether they're awake or not, or active, or idle is opaque to me and I'm totally fine with that.One of the reasons for text based chat/messenger apps, going all the way back to the earliest days of IRC, is the benefit in having asynchronous communications. If I absolutely need an immediate answer from someone or a realtime 1:1 conversation on something urgent I'll call them on the phone instead.In things like facebook messenger I bet that 99% of users never dig into the settings to turn OFF the "show your activity status to other people" option.For something like a work place communication tools such as Slack I can understand the purpose of setting yourself active or idle manually to indicate whether you're available for messages, or in a different time zone, or whatever. That's a different use case.