/afk

This command is used to mark the client user with “Away” status. Sending any message while in this state will remove this status.

Running this command will also update their user name by prepending a status message to it. This status message can be provided by appending an argument to the command, is to be converted to uppercase and can be up to 5 unicode grapheme clusters or 50 bytes long with any additional data truncated. The status message is prepended with < and suffixed with >_. If no status message argument is provided, the string AFK will be used, resulting in a prefix of <AFK>_.

/afk [message?]

• [message?] is an optional string argument that can be used to specify a reason for being away.

If a user named kp with user ID 248 runs the following command:

/afk

It will update their display name to <AFK>_kp and result in the following sequence of packets being broadcast to all clients present in the same channel:

10\t248\t<AFK>_kp\tinherit\t1\f0\f0\f0\f0

If a user named Sword with user ID 100 runs the following command:

/afk Gaming

The argument will be truncated and uppercased to GAMIN, their display name will be updated to <GAMIN>_Sword and have the following sequence of packets sent to all clients present in the same channel. Featuring faulty user permissions string:

10\t100\t<GAMIN>_Sword\tinherit\t1 0 0 0 0

• When combined with a nickname set through the /nick command, the AFK prefix will come BEFORE the nickname prefix. Example: <AFK>_~nickname.
• Maximum length of the status message might be implementation defined.

• C2S Packet 2: Message Send
• S2C Packet 10: User Update