I never understood the point of the friends list. It's not like you don't remember who your friends are, and if you don't remember they probably should not be your friends. I really hate the way facebook does it, when they let other people see who your friends are, there is just no need for that.
So for the forum -1, for AH +1 because it is indeed a pain in the a** to scroll though the roster.
However if you add someone to the list they should not know it. If you want to add an enemy to the list in order to hunt for him he should not know about it

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