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"Fucking hate" for this situation? You're gonna pop a vein if you ever have real problems!

We have had typing indicators for 25 years now.

Disclaimer: I just want to say I love the design of lemmy and whoever had a hand in it should pat themselves on the back.

Lemmy also doesn't follow modern design trends like 'infinite scrolling' and even makes better decisions than reddit where clicking on a thread, you know, opens the thread instead of what the thread links to.

I hate the "read" function more in different messaging services. And when they show when you and others are online.

Personally, I don't care for any of that shit, but in the past I have had people letting me know that they knew I was online and they knew I had read their message and why hadn't I replied to them yet, hmm???

That shit can fuck all the way off. I need to be in the right headspace to reply to messages. It would be a full time fucking job if I had to sit and reply to people all day when they wanted me to. I don't expect people to reply to me immediately either. I know people have lives that take up their time. I'm not their first priority and I don't kid myself into thinking I'm entitled to be.

Would appreciate the same respect in return.

The problem is that you have friends. You should put an end to that.

https://github.com/heralden/steam-chat

Apparently there's an API for non-group chats and an open-source terminal client (maybe others as well). Good odds that that doesn't send notification. If not, could be modified.

looks a bit further

Bitlbee, an IRC-to-other-chat-protocols gateway, apparently has support for Steam client chat.

https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-steam

I know that that won't send any indication, since IRC doesn't.

It makes other chat systems be aggregated together and look like an IRC server; you then use an IRC client of your choice to talk to people on other chat systems.

What exactly is the issue with this feature if I may ask?

What are these "friends" people keep talking about?

I'm more unhappy with messaging apps that notify people if you've read a message. It did have a positive side effect in that with Facebook, once they introduced that feature sometime around 09 or something, it caused me to reduce my use of the messaging capabilities significantly but frankly I'm not sure that's really what Facebook or I really wanted. It's a common feature in messaging applications and I fucking hate it. I need to read the message to decide if I want people to know if I've seen it and I can't do that without telling them I've seen it.

I can get behind this in general, but I do wonder what your issue with this particular feature is.