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I am getting a message "Unable to change friend status at this time" (or something close) when I try to add a friend in the pub.

It is working again, maybe it was my laptop.

Actually its an old bug that was a low priority for me and so never got properly fixed. If a player has logged off or even has a tenuous connection then the game won't add them as a friend and you get that message. Since that system is also being re-written in the new game I probably won't be fixing that bug or at least not anytime soon.