Why did Microsoft take away the notification for favorites going online on the Xbox app?

Give us the option to get notifications from our favorites when they sign in.

It is really annoying to snap the activity feed to see who has gotten online.

There are more things i dislike about the xbox one compared to the 360 but please don't take this away.

Friend notifications are coming hopefully in the next update:
xboxonedaily.com/.../friends-online-notifications-system-update

You can also favorite any friends you want to know about, and then snap the activity app. This will tell you when they log on.

The status to busy and away, you will need to post that in the suggestion forums, this is a support forum.

I have an issue with the notifications as well. Well one notification, with one friend. I have one person on my friends list, who is a favorite and it will never pop up when he signs on. Every other notification works fine, and my brother, who has an
xbox one in his room is alerted when the same friend comes online. To my friends knowledge he did not change any settings, neither did I. Weird issue, doesn't really effect my experience, just thought it to be really strange. If there is a simple fix
I'd take it, if not that's fine too.

One thing I don't like about the notifications is when you get the "your game is ready" kind of pop-up. It takes too long if I hold down the guide button on the controller, but if I go home and then jump into the game bypassing the notification all-together
the notification doesn't go away automatically and has a reverse-loading bar that takes forever before it goes away or until you open it up using the guide button. I just wish that it would go away the moment I bring the game up, even if it's not through the
notification itself.

When your account is banned you lose access to all content associated with that account and it cannot be transferred. This is listed in the ToU and the CoC that you agreed to when you joined Live.