Sensible suggestions for trading improvements

Way too many threads asking for an "AH" these days. As if that even means one thing; the term "auction house" means many things to many people.

But no matter how you slice it, it would be a huge development investment. We don't need that right now. Want it, maybe. But it's not as high priority as some simple fixes.

Here's the list of improvements I'd like to see GGG make to trading, in chronological order:

1. Update web API so "online" in PoE.trade actually means online. GGG has already promised this for Ascendancy.

2. Automatic email notification when a forum PM is received, with an option to turn this feature off (turned on by default).

3. The ability to push forum PMs to your phone by sending a confirmed phone number the text of the PM.

4. Allow players to reply to emails/texts they receive, sending a reply to the original PM sender.

5. Allow web API to detect the message forwarding status of accounts. For example, poe.trade could display a particular icon for someone who has SMS forwarding enabled.

6. Allow web API to detect AFK mode, so you can filter out AFK people, if desired.

First things first. Get those first 5 things in place, and maybe we can start talking about grandiose replacements for poe.trade then.

Lol, autocorrect had the thread title wrong until just now.