When You set the max. amount of friends in the access part of a profiletype (see screenshot_01), this rule is not working on the frontend at all places....also some other things are wrong with this access setting. Let me begin ;-)
In all points/cases I mention below, the example is with a member that has a profiletype with the limit of 3 friends max.
1. As long as a member has not 3 friends, he can do as many friendsrequests as he wants. Example: A member has just registered to the site. He has no friends yet. He has the limit of 3 friends max. When this user does 200 friend requests at the same time he or she can easily get more friends then 3. He can do friend requests as long as the limit of 3 friends is not reached. and therefor end up with hundreds of friends!
Possible solution: not only check if the amount of friends is reached with every friend request, but also limit the amount of requests a user can do when the limit friends is set.
2. When the member has 3 (or more) friends, he cannot do requests anymore, however there is a workaround for the user, to still be able to make new friends! This is a bug. It should not be possible. The place where there is no check in the software for the friendslimit is the memberslist! When user who cannot have more friends browses through the userlist, he can still send friend request and make new friends that way! (Screenshot_02)
3. with popup member info, there is a button 'add friend'. When clicking nothing happens if the user has reached his friends limit. This is fine, cause the member should not be able to make new friends anyway. However, it would be nicer for the user, if he received a message that he has reached his friends limit. Now the user is left in the dark about why that button does not work.... (see screenshot_03)
4. this is the case it works as it should work everywhere. Just added this screenshot to clearify the way it should be at all places where a member can send a friend request. See screenshot_04 for the correct working. This is on a user profile.
p.s. Because of the closed (private) behaviour of this community, I removed all names and other information that can lead to users or the site on the screenshots.
p.s.2. I added new site details to this post. The login codes that I gave with the other post of mine, about stream comments disappearing should also still work... Also I added a normal user account login. With this account You can go into the frontend and test it for Yourself. This account already has the max amount of friends and he should not be able to make new friends on the site. Point 1 cannot be tested with this profile. ;-)
In all points/cases I mention below, the example is with a member that has a profiletype with the limit of 3 friends max.
1. As long as a member has not 3 friends, he can do as many friendsrequests as he wants. Example: A member has just registered to the site. He has no friends yet. He has the limit of 3 friends max. When this user does 200 friend requests at the same time he or she can easily get more friends then 3. He can do friend requests as long as the limit of 3 friends is not reached. and therefor end up with hundreds of friends!
Possible solution: not only check if the amount of friends is reached with every friend request, but also limit the amount of requests a user can do when the limit friends is set.
2. When the member has 3 (or more) friends, he cannot do requests anymore, however there is a workaround for the user, to still be able to make new friends! This is a bug. It should not be possible. The place where there is no check in the software for the friendslimit is the memberslist! When user who cannot have more friends browses through the userlist, he can still send friend request and make new friends that way! (Screenshot_02)
3. with popup member info, there is a button 'add friend'. When clicking nothing happens if the user has reached his friends limit. This is fine, cause the member should not be able to make new friends anyway. However, it would be nicer for the user, if he received a message that he has reached his friends limit. Now the user is left in the dark about why that button does not work.... (see screenshot_03)
4. this is the case it works as it should work everywhere. Just added this screenshot to clearify the way it should be at all places where a member can send a friend request. See screenshot_04 for the correct working. This is on a user profile.
p.s. Because of the closed (private) behaviour of this community, I removed all names and other information that can lead to users or the site on the screenshots.
p.s.2. I added new site details to this post. The login codes that I gave with the other post of mine, about stream comments disappearing should also still work... Also I added a normal user account login. With this account You can go into the frontend and test it for Yourself. This account already has the max amount of friends and he should not be able to make new friends on the site. Point 1 cannot be tested with this profile. ;-)