Making friends

Thanks to everyone for providing your suggestions and feedback about the site so far. We’re trying our best to respond to your comments and we’ve assembled a list of fixes and improvements which we’ll be working in the coming weeks.

One of the most frequently mentioned improvement requests has been to make it easier to connect with friends. By connecting with friends on alive not dead, you can keep track of your friends' updates. Previously, it was necessary to provide your friend’s exact name and email address in order to create a request to connect as friends. This ensured a high degree of privacy but, in retrospect, was overly burdensome.

As a consequence, we’ve made it easier to connect as friends. You can now request to connect as friends with anyone who is already connected as friends with one of YOUR friends (i.e. “second-degree friends”) without having to enter their name and email. Additionally, we’ve made it easier to match your friend’s name.Artists: You can now send friend requests to any users without having to have their name or email address. This will make it easier for you to add your friends to your profile.

We’re also planning on releasing additional features to make it easier to connect as friends in the coming weeks.

Remember, alive not dead is much more fun when you connect with friends.

 -- Stephen