No, I still have the edit buddies/ignore function. I probably didn't explain myself very well. When you go to Quick Links, you can call up your buddy list and it will tell you who of your buddies are online and who isn't. It automatically refreshes every so often.
It was flashing up with a message which I couldn't read quickly enough before it redirected to the main forum home page. However, I've managed to catch it and it says that I do not have permission to use it. Am I being singled out for having so many buddies

or has this functionality been withdrawn.
Cheers
Whirls