tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40Dreamwidth SuggestionsDreamwidth Suggestionsdw_suggestions@dreamwidth.orgDreamwidth Suggestions2017-02-20T21:33:44Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1491929style_testerAdd time/date stamp to Inbox messages2017-02-20T21:33:44Z2017-02-20T21:33:44Zpublic17Posted by: <span lj:user='style_tester' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://style-tester.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://style-tester.dreamwidth.org/'><b>style_tester</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Add time/date stamp to Inbox messages</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Inbox, messages</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />The Dreamwidth Inbox is set up to stamp any incoming messages, be they comments or PMs, as having arrived nth seconds/minutes/days/weeks/months/years ago. I'd like to see those stamps added to or replaced by an actual time/date stamp.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />The Dreamwidth Inbox is set up to stamp any incoming messages, be they comments or PMs, as having arrived nth seconds/minutes/days/weeks/months/years ago. <br /><br />(And I have to speak to semantics here; "34 seconds ago" is admittedly a pretty precise date/time/stamp, but "two weeks ago", IMO, very much isn't.)<br /><br />My suggestion is since we already have an Inbox function for date/time stamps (it's just not a date/time stamp) to either change it from [posted, received] 'nth seconds/minutes/days/weeks/moths ago' to putting an actual date/time stamp on it, like the UTC date/time stamps we have in DW's comment sections, or else to simply add the date/time stamp to the [posted, received] 'nth seconds/minutes/days/weeks/moths ago' stamp we already have.<br /><br />I discovered this was A Thing after returning to a neglected PM in my DW Inbox today and realizing I'd have to check my email to figure out exactly when it was sent. I can't stay on site to do that. And it made me feel bad that I'd have to hold up my reply a bit longer as I searched for the email notification so I could reply by saying: "...about the message you sent last Wednesday".<br /><br />(Again, there are some semantics at work: I could get a calendar and count backward from today to determine what day/possibly month/possibly year "six days ago" was, but like checking my email for the date/time, it's another step I'd have to go offsite or into an OS or phone app to take.)<br /><br />The system is not too difficult to use to learn when comments were posted (just check the entries comments were posted on) but it's also true no account holder on Dreamwidth can determine, merely by viewing their Inbox notifications, exactly when that was.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=18016">View Poll: Add time/date stamp to Inbox messages</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1491929" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1408296Equation HouseHaving the option of tags appearing at the TOP of entries2013-01-16T05:58:50Z2013-01-16T05:58:50Zpublic18Posted by: <span lj:user='equationhouse' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://equationhouse.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://equationhouse.dreamwidth.org/'><b>equationhouse</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Having the option of tags appearing at the TOP of entries</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />tags</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Having the option of displaying tags above the actual text portion of an entry would be beneficial in many ways, detailed below.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />As things currently stand, I am under the impression tags appear under the main portion of an entry, and that there is no way to choose otherwise. I remember on LJ there was an option to display many things about an entry above it instead, such as mood, location, etc. I feel that having similar options here on DW, particularly regarding tags, would benefit a great number of people. Particularly, I know that it would help myself and a great deal of my friends who would benefit from having a choice other than completely cutting entries that might be of an upsetting or "triggering" nature. <br /><br />Tagging entries as triggering is, so far, rather ineffective, since people tend not to see the tags until they have already read at least a good portion of an entry. If these tags were, however, to be placed above an entry, it would be much easier to avoid reading potentially upsetting entries if desired.<br /></p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=12621">View Poll: Having the option of tags appearing at the TOP of entries</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1408296" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1401225Gerald the cuddly duckI want the date format "Sat 2012-12-01" (or custom date formats)2012-12-16T08:43:58Z2012-12-16T08:43:58Zpublic23Posted by: <span lj:user='gerald_duck' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://gerald-duck.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://gerald-duck.dreamwidth.org/'><b>gerald_duck</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />I want the date format "Sat 2012-12-01" (or custom date formats)</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Internationalisation/time and date</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />I always use ISO format dates, so definitely want my journal displayed using those. However, in the context of a blog it's also useful to know on what day of the week a posting or comment was made, so it would be nice to have day-of-week followed by ISO date.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />As per the title, and for the reasons in the summary, I would specifically like the date format "Sat 2012-12-01".<br /><br />However, I have no idea how many other people would like that specific format. Maybe it would be good instead to provide a mechanism for users to specify custom date and time formats?<br /><br />There are already existing standards for this, such as the trusty old POSIX strftime ( <a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strftime.html">http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strftime.html</a> ), ICU format strings ( <a href="http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime#TOC-Date-Time-Format-Syntax">http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime#TOC-Date-Time-Format-Syntax</a> ) or the Microsoft one familiar to users of Windows and/or Excel ( <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx</a> ).<br /><br />It would be good to use one of those rather than reinventing the wheel. My vote would be for ICU, provided that library is available to the DW platform.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=12340">View Poll: I want the date format "Sat 2012-12-01" (or custom date formats)</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1401225" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1347694DenRating System Suggestion2012-04-21T18:37:51Z2012-04-21T18:37:51Zpublic10Posted by: <span lj:user='dens_extra_pups' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://dens-extra-pups.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://dens-extra-pups.dreamwidth.org/'><b>dens_extra_pups</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Rating System Suggestion</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />journal entries</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />A better rating system with more options for rating levels of communities and individual journals.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />There's only three levels of journal classification. The "Safe for everyone" classification is what I'd consider G to Y7 rating, which is right where it should be, so there's no problem there. The "Should be viewed with discretion" triggers a tag that reads "NSFW" on all the entries, which borders on a bit too high of classification, in my opinion. I understand that the "18+" warrants the "NSFW" tag, which is as it should be. I think that there should be more levels of classification between the "Safe for everyone" and "Adults Only 18+", as there are a lot of things that fall in between there, and most journals would likely not come close to needing an "NSFW" tag.<br /><br />Ideally, the levels of classification would be as follows:<br /><br />"Safe for everyone": Leave it as it is.<br />"Cautious": Around PG-13 level.<br />"Some discretion advised": Bordering on R rating.<br />"Adults only 18+": Leave it as it is.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=10250">View Poll: Rating System Suggestion</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1347694" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1329498pacific_rain_acim"Order View" button enabling viewers to see entries in EITHER oldest first OR newest first2012-02-12T18:44:10Z2012-02-12T18:44:10Zpublic28Posted by: <span lj:user='pacific_rain_acim' style='white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://pacific-rain-acim.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://pacific-rain-acim.dreamwidth.org/'><b>pacific_rain_acim</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />"Order View" button enabling viewers to see entries in EITHER oldest first OR newest first</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Journal Entry Page of journals</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Please create a drop down box, link or button that would change the appearance of a journal's main page from the current default "Newest Entry First" to an optional view of "Oldest Entry First"</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />Ok :) The idea is basically what ever they do on shopping sites and in windows, where you can hit a button at the top of a column and choose to have the most recent or most distant date first. (Or highest price & lowest price.)<br /><br />1. Issue to improve: Any journal that is about a process, telling a story or play, history, building of anything, diary, ...<br />For instance - I just created a journal to be focused ONLY on what I'm learning as I study A Course In Miracles. I wish that viewers of that journal could choose to see the beginning of the journey first - and so the First entry on top, second in second place, etc. In other words, I wish this journal had an option to show up Oldest Entry First. People starting to look at A Course In Miracles in the future might find it comforting to see what someone thought and be able to talk about it as they were reading the same pages. Also if I like it, and read it again in the future, it would be easier to follow along with myself the second or fifth time around.<br /><br />2. Why my solution is best: IDK about "best" but it's easiest for the journal owner. The only other one I can think of is to use an enormously long system of tags...a tag for every 10 pages or every date? Or the option below - of adding stock journal styles that automatically show up as Oldest Entry First. <br /><br />3. Problems: there would be code that would change the links at the top of every journal, that would probably be hard. Someone would just wake up and see a new button or link "Order View" next to "Recent Entries" - but for you guys it would probably be a big code?<br /><br />4. Other Ways: There could be a set of the stock journal layouts that were ONLY set to "Oldest First." We could just go in and search "Oldest First" and a set of them would come up. It would be harsh, as it takes a lot of time to get your fonts, colors, etc right. But we could do it over if it really mattered to us. <br /><br />*****Unless you created an Oldest First alternate down at the bottom of the layout options page - where you now have a choice of how your columns appear.<br /><br />I don't know which would be cleanest and easiest for you guys. <br />* added button/link to each journal that switches the view of dated entries from newest on top default, to Oldest First.<br /><br />* set of journal layouts that are just coded to default the Oldest First in the entries section<br /><br />* a template that can be layered on or removed (like those column options at the foot of the style page) </p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=9497">View Poll: "Order View" button enabling viewers to see entries in EITHER oldest first OR newest first</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1329498" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1323319timeasmymeasureBe Able To Customize "Member Posts" Text In Communities2012-02-04T06:33:40Z2012-02-04T06:33:40Zpublic10Posted by: <span lj:user='timeasmymeasure' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://timeasmymeasure.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://timeasmymeasure.dreamwidth.org/'><b>timeasmymeasure</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Be Able To Customize "Member Posts" Text In Communities</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />communities, customization</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />We should be able to customize the navigation text for the reading in page in communities.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />Currently, the reading text for communities defaults to "Member's Posts", which makes sense. However, it also makes sense that we should be able to customize the text in the 'Customize Journal Style - Text' page like we can with the other navigation links. </p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=9397">View Poll: Be Able To Customize "Member Posts" Text In Communities</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1323319" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1296516montuosAdd custom option for Image Placeholder size2011-12-30T22:56:21Z2011-12-30T22:56:21Zpublic2Posted by: <span lj:user='montuos' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://montuos.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://montuos.dreamwidth.org/'><b>montuos</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Add custom option for Image Placeholder size</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />display settings </p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Add one more option to the Image Placeholder setting at <a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display">http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display</a> to allow defining a custom size.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />There are currently four options for the Image Placeholder setting. You can set it to use placeholders always, never, for medium images (320x240 pixels) and up, or for "large" images (640x480) and up.<br /><br />I have never used this setting because 640x480 doesn't seem all that large to me and I'm fine with a bit larger than that too. However a recent suggestion requesting 800x800 items [<a href="http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/1285370.html">http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/1285370.html</a>] reminded me that I do have my limits, and brought the tool back to my attention. I would like to add one more option to customize separately the largest height and width of the images we're willing to load. <br /><br />Everybody's screen size and shape is different, we all prefer different sizes and shapes for our browser windows, and we all have different tolerances for the size of what we want to see. I would like to be able to use placeholders at a larger size, but I think adding a custom option would be better than simply increasing the threshold to an arbitrary size. A custom option would be more flexible, not merely allowing users to specify a larger threshold, but also allowing those whose screens/windows are more portrait-shaped than landscape to allow taller but limit wider images to fit better.<br /><br /><br />That all being said, even if having a custom option to specify the height and width separately is not feasible (I have no idea how this tool actually works), I'd still like to have one more larger option for using placeholders.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=8937">View Poll: Add custom option for Image Placeholder size</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1296516" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1292202montuosMobile page/regular page toggle button2011-12-27T07:21:28Z2011-12-27T07:21:28Zpublic11Posted by: <span lj:user='montuos' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://montuos.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://montuos.dreamwidth.org/'><b>montuos</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Mobile page/regular page toggle button</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />usability</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />I think it would be a good idea to have a toggle button to switch back and forth between a mobile page and its regular counterpart.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />It has been clearly demonstrated that different users and different mobile devices have different needs and requirements. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to switch back and forth between a mobile page and its regular counterpart (wherever different versions exist) quickly and easily. A toggle button at the top of the page could solve this.<br /><br />See <a href="http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/1286067.html">http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/1286067.html</a> for comments regarding usage that spawned this idea.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=8903">View Poll: Mobile page/regular page toggle button</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1292202" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1285370KRIMAbolish 800x800 pixel embed limits2011-12-26T06:49:29Z2011-12-26T08:50:07Zpublic38Posted by: <span lj:user='chagrined' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://chagrined.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://chagrined.dreamwidth.org/'><b>chagrined</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Abolish 800x800 pixel embed limits</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Entries</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Remove 800x800 pixel embed limits so users can embed HD video content in their journals</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />Currently DW's code limits all embedded objects (this generally impacts embedded videos) to a height and width of 800x800px maximum. Users can post larger embedded objects but they will be placed inside a scrolling iframe of those maximum dimensions (thus, blocking part of the embedded object from view). Users may want to post larger embedded videos in their journals. My suggestion is to abolish the limit. Here are some problems/issues/alternate implementations and why I think this is the best solution:<br /><br />1. Problem: Other users may not want to view embedded content of this size.<br />Why I still support my solution: Users can currently only post embedded objects in journal/community entries anyway, not in comments. A user can already post pictures of any size in an entry without a cut or without resizing the picture. This is a matter of personal decision and community standards which people already address by moderating communities with posting regulations, by deciding what communities to follow, etc. I feel the same should apply to embedded content like videos, with a user deciding what/how they will post in their own journal.<br /><br />2. Possible now-less-meaningful reason for this in the past: I don't know, but I suspect this bit of code may have been written in times when more users still had much smaller screen resolutions, and also when there wasn't as much HD video content circulating on the web. Now that many users have larger resolutions and there are many more HD videos out there (and users may create their own HD video content they wish to share, etc.) changing the code would let users take advantage of this.<br /><br />3. Alternative option: Instead of abolishing the limit, it could be increased and changed to some other value. Possibly some common resolution could be used as a maximum guideline, such as 1280x720 or 1900x1080.<br />Problem: If wider support for larger resolutions continues in the future, this may have to be changed again, but it is easy enough to change that this isn't that big of an issue, I suppose. However, it might still prevent some users from embedding the content they wish to embed.<br /><br />4. Other issues? I don't know whether the method DW uses of embedding objects causes strain on DW's servers based on the size of the object being embedded, since objects are still hosted elsewhere. However, since I can currently already embed objects with a height or width greater than 800 px (they just end up obscured from view by the containing iframe), I suspect that even if this is an issue, the current implementation isn't saving the servers in any way.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=8876">View Poll: Abolish 800x800 pixel embed limits</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1285370" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1282918turloughConfusing display settings for entry/comment pages2011-12-24T08:26:15Z2011-12-24T08:26:15Zpublic18Posted by: <span lj:user='turlough' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://turlough.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://turlough.dreamwidth.org/'><b>turlough</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Confusing display settings for entry/comment pages</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />entries, display</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />The settings for "Entry View Style" and "Comment Pages" (under My Account Settings: Display) are sufficiently alike to be confusing and should be reworked into one setting for how you see your own pages and another for how you see other people's pages.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />The Display tab under My Account Settings has two different settings that concern the same thing.<br /><br />Both "Entry View Style" and "Comment Pages" govern the way you see entry/comment pages. The options they offer are almost, but not entirely, alike - "Entry View Style" lets you choose between viewing both your own and other people's pages in Original Style / Site Skin / My own style / Light format, and "Comment Pages" lets you choose between viewing comment pages (presumably other people's) in your own journal style or the journal owner's style by way of a tickybox - which means that I never feel completely sure that the settings I've chosen will give me the result I desire.<br /><br />It's very confusing and I feel it would be so much easier if these two settings were reworked into a setting for how you see your own entry/comment pages and a setting for how you see other people's entry/comment pages.<br /><br />I would suggest that the options for your own pages should be My Journal Style / Site Skin / Light Format, and that the options for other people's pages should be Original Journal Style / My Journal Style / Site Skin / Light Format.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=8857">View Poll: Confusing display settings for entry/comment pages</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1282918" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1280080foxfirefey@dreamwidth.orgfoxfirefeyIn-line Adult/NSFW Expansions2011-12-23T22:22:41Z2011-12-23T22:22:41Zpublic3Posted by: <span lj:user='foxfirefey' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://foxfirefey.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://foxfirefey.dreamwidth.org/'><b>foxfirefey</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />In-line Adult/NSFW Expansions</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Reading page</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />You know how we can expand cuts in line? Yeah, I want to be able to do that with collapsed adult/NSFW content.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />I love, love, love expanding cuts in-line. I think most of us agree it's an awesome feature for not breaking the flow of reading pages. However, collapsed adult/NSFW content is similar to a cut, but I cannot expand it inline. If I could do so, the entire experience would be more cohesive (not having to click through not one but two page loads to get to the content), and it would help me read the people who inexplicably mark their journals 18+ without having much of any adult content at all, while still letting me hopefully avoid entries people marked 18+ that I might not want flashing on my reading page every time it loads. <br /><br />Because of the nature of this versus inline cuts, there might need to be an extra dialog to confirm expansion upon clicking. This still might carry the risk of people accidentally loading content they didn't want to see; that's about the worst drawback, but I think the advantages outweigh it.<br /><br />I'm hoping that the infrastructure used to do inline cuts could be easily adapted to expanding collapsed adult/NSFW entries.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=8847">View Poll: In-line Adult/NSFW Expansions</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1280080" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:1276707unicorntop level/flat comments as default entry view option2011-12-23T09:07:35Z2011-12-23T09:07:35Zpublic5Posted by: <span lj:user='unicorn' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://unicorn.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://unicorn.dreamwidth.org/'><b>unicorn</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />top level/flat comments as default entry view option</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Site's view style as implemented through Manage Account page</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />The My Account Settings page gives us the option of ticking a box that will show all entries in our own style. Why not further customize the entry view defaults using the newly available Top Level and Flat comment page options? </p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />The "View comment pages in your own style" option under the Display section in Account Settings is a simple way to further customize your Dreamwidth experience. It operates by automatically displaying links to other peoples' entries with the addition of an "?style=mine." You can always manually remove that part of the link if you want to view the original style, and it makes reading comment pages easier for many people who dislike having to deal with a bunch of different styles. <br /><br />Because the new "Top Level Comment" and "Flat" options for comment pages are also accessed via link changing (adding "&view=top-only#comments" or "&view=flat#comments" to the end of the existing link), it seems to me like it would be simple to add another ticky box under the Display section: "Comment Page Default View" or something of that nature, with a dropdown menu containing the options Threaded, Top Level, and Flat - the way the Entry View Style looks right now, basically, with a similar function. This would be even easier to maneuver around than the ?style=mine change if you got to a top level comment page and decided you wanted to see the threaded version, because the links to different styles of comment pages are already automatically available at the top of every entry. <br /><br />This would be useful for people whose reading lists and preferred reading areas on the site tend to be either extremely large or extremely small. A default top level comment view would easily let you see what topic discussions were being started in extremely large posts without having to load a thousand comments, and flat only would let you see everything being said at once in smaller posts (you'd just have to be careful not to click 1k comment monsters casually if you had that option turned on!)<br /><br />Honestly, if only one of these could be implemented, a default top level view seems more potentially useful to me, and maybe only a few people would use even that. But since this is so close in execution to an option already available to us, it seems to me (though I have no background in coding to verify this!) that the effort required to offer either or both of these as potential default views as well would be worth the payoff. </p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=8831">View Poll: top level/flat comments as default entry view option</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=1276707" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:583336ninetydegrees (90d)☕Account Settings: merge 'Comment Pages' option with 'Entry View Style' option2011-08-17T23:41:01Z2011-08-17T23:45:00Zpublic13Posted by: <span lj:user='ninetydegrees' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/'><b>ninetydegrees</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Account Settings: merge 'Comment Pages' option with 'Entry View Style' option</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />settings</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />See below as it's quite complicated.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />On Account Settings [<a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display">http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display</a>], you have two options:<br /><br />1- Comment Pages - View comment pages in your own journal style<br /><br />This is the option DW inherited from LiveJournal.<br /><br />When enabled, clicking on 'Leave a comment', 'Read comments', a permalink or a cut anywhere on the site will append style=mine to the target URL. Comment and reply pages get therefore loaded in your own style or the site skin if you've disabled custom comment pages.<br /><br /><br />2- Entry View Style - When viewing entry pages (including yours), use this style: Original Style/Site Skin/My own style/Light format<br /><br />This is the new option Dreamwidth implemented.<br /><br />When enabled, comment and reply pages always get loaded in the style you've chosen. This is also transparent as nothing gets added to the URL. Magic!<br /><br /><br />As you can see, the two options are very similar and even overlap in some cases*. The main difference between the two is that option 1 requires you to click on some specific links while option 2 doesn't. If someone links to an entry page in their post and you click on the link, option 1 will not load it in your style. Option 2 will. If you click on the cut text, both options will load the entry in your style. The other difference is that one changes the URL while the other doesn't.<br /><br />*To prevent this, option 2 isn't used when option 1 is and vice-versa. Except not always. If you have selected the light format for option 2 then it overrides option 1 for instance. As I said, it's complicated.<br /><br /><br />I suggest the first option to be phased out and to automatically set option 2 to 'my own style' for users who had checked option 1.<br /><br /><br />Why? I think option 1 seems simple but is actually uselessly complicated, and having these two options seems confusing to me. I also wonder whether many people chose to set 1 but not 2 and did so deliberately. From comments I've seen here and there, some people don't understand that entry pages and comment pages are one and the same, plus the description text for the the first option is vague because explaining how this option works exactly is impossible. It gets even more complicated if you add the fact that once you've got style=mine added to an URL, you're stuck with it so any link you will click on the page will get style=mine too. And let's not talk about Nav Strip overrides.<br /><br /><br />But what do I know, right? Hence this suggestion to see if it's a good or a terrible idea, and also to know why someone would deliberately use option 1 and not option 2 because it's intriguing. *g*<br /></p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=7847">View Poll: Account Settings: merge 'Comment Pages' option with 'Entry View Style' option</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=583336" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:574215fuClick to show the contextual popup, instead of showing it on hover2011-08-09T23:30:53Z2011-08-10T02:52:12Zpublic61Posted by: <span lj:user='fu' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://fu.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://fu.dreamwidth.org/'><b>fu</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Click to show the contextual popup, instead of showing it on hover</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />journals, site interaction, </p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />The contextual popup which contains user-specific links shows up when you hover over the userhead before a username, or someone's icon. I'd like to suggest adding an extra "click" so that it only shows up when the user calls it up and can't be summoned by accident.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />The contextual popup has several subtle issues, because it's triggered by hovering over something, and closed by moving your mouse off of it:<br /><br />* you can trigger it accidentally by hovering over an icon or userhead while reading a comment -- the unexpected animation can be distracting, or the box might cover up content you want to read<br /><br />* it fades out after a few seconds: this may be too short for people with fine motor control issues. Conversely, it may be too long for someone who has accidentally triggered the thing and just wants it to go away!<br /><br />* no way to trigger it by keyboard; no way to indicate that there's anything even like this functionality to keyboard-only users<br /><br /><br /><br />I suggest that hovering over an icon or userhead should only show a small image within the icon or userhead. This can be clicked to open the contextutual popup menu.<br /><br />Pros:<br />* less chance of unexpected behavior and animation<br />* less chance of accidentally covering up the text you're reading<br />* more control over how you interact with the site<br />* it may be possible to make this keyboard friendly, by also adding the clickable trigger when someone focuses on an icon or userhead.<br /><br />cons:<br />* adds an extra click for people who are used to the old behavior of the contextual popup showing on hover<br />* might not be obvious how to open the contextual popup / may not be obvious what the button does<br />* unexpected animation still there, just a lot subtler<br />* the small image overlaying the userhead will mean that you can no longer click directly on the userhead to go to that user's profile; however the link is still in the contextual popup menu (see ETA below, which may make this less of an issue)<br /> * the small image overlaying the icon *may* make it harder to click directly on the icon to go to that user's icon page; however that link can be added to the contextual popup menu<br /><br />Here's a screenshot of how it looks now, where the contextual popup shows up when you hover right over the icon.<br /><a href="http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/contextual-hover.png">http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/contextual-hover.png</a><br /><br />Here's a quick and dirty mockup of how the extra clickable link might work:<br /><br />When you hover over an icon: <a href="http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/icon-on-hover.png">http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/icon-on-hover.png</a><br />When you click on the trigger: <a href="http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/icon-on-click.png">http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/icon-on-click.png</a><br /><br />When you hover over a userhead (see ETA below for a revised version)): <a href="http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/userhead-on-hover.png">http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/userhead-on-hover.png</a><br />When you click on the trigger: <a href="http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/userhead-on-click.png">http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/userhead-on-click.png</a><br /><br />Mockups were made in less than ten minutes, so please assume that fiddly bits like where the trigger overlays text in the contextual popup can be fixed (and will be!)</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=7732">View Poll: Click to show the contextual popup, instead of showing it on hover</a></div></div><br /><br />ETA 2011-08-10:<br /><br />Some good points in the comments re: losing the ability to go to the profile!<br /><br />Here's a modification of the hover behavior on the userheads. The trigger shows up to the left of the userhead, so the userhead remains clickable to go to the profile:<br /><a href="http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/fu-nohover.png">http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/fu-nohover.png</a><br /><a href="http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/fu-hover.png">http://afunamatata.com/dreamwidth/journal/2011/08/fu-hover.png</a><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=574215" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:512756turloughOption to make archive and calendar week start on a Monday2011-02-14T05:47:25Z2011-02-14T05:47:25Zpublic10Posted by: <span lj:user='turlough' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://turlough.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://turlough.dreamwidth.org/'><b>turlough</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Option to make archive and calendar week start on a Monday</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Archive and sidebar calendar</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />There should be an option that lets you set Monday as the first day of the week in the archive year view and in the calendar module.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />As a European I'm always thrown to see the week start on a Sunday in the archive year view and in the calendar module. I think that, just as we have the option to set time to display as 24 hours instead of AM and PM, we should have the option to set Monday as the first day of the week. It's a small thing but I think it would be a nice way of showing that DW isn't only for people from the US.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=5992">View Poll: Option to make archive and calendar week start on a Monday</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=512756" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:496479asymptoteInclude local time for entries on reading page2011-01-04T15:25:59Z2011-01-04T15:25:59Zpublic30Posted by: <span lj:user='tree' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://tree.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://tree.dreamwidth.org/'><b>tree</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Include local time for entries on reading page</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />reading page</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Include the local time for an entry on a user's reading page as well as/instead of the poster's time.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />At the moment, entries on the reading page are date stamped with the poster's time zone. I would find it really useful to have the option of seeing that date and time in my own time zone.<br /><br />For example, the most recent entry on my reading page was posted at Nov. 27th, 2010 10:05 am. I know it's the most recent post in my circle, but I have no immediate point of reference for determining the corresponding time in my time zone. If I want to do that, I have to look at the poster's profile to determine hir time zone. And that only works if zie has entered the (correct) location.<br /><br />We currently have the option for comments to be date stamped with the local time, so it might not be terribly difficult to implement. On the other hand, it might be, due to comments being static and the reading page being dynamic. The local date stamp would only appear as part of the aggregate page and not the original. That might make things explode. <br /><br />I think it would be preferable to have both the poster's time and the local time displayed, but that may not be possible.<br /><br />Drawbacks of implementation might be server load, although I can't imagine it would be a huge issue. If it were a feature you could choose to switch on, then anyone who didn't want it could simply leave it off.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=5515">View Poll: Include local time for entries on reading page</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=496479" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:480510twisted_timesSupport non Gregorian calendar formats across Dreamwidth2010-11-19T06:15:50Z2010-11-19T17:07:15Zpublic21Posted by: <span lj:user='twisted_times' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://twisted-times.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://twisted-times.dreamwidth.org/'><b>twisted_times</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Support non Gregorian calendar formats across Dreamwidth</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Posting, commenting, profile dates</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Some users may want to see date formats displayed in calendar formats other than the Gregorian Calendar</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />This isn't really one I actually want myself, but I can see the utility of it for other users who are more used to, or use in tandem, calendar formats other than the Gregorian Calendar - e.g. Hebrew, <del>Islamic,</del> Chinese, Japanese, Coptic. <br /><br /><br />Code already exists in both <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~morty/DateConvert-0.16/Convert.pm">Perl</a> and <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/calendar.constants.php">PHP</a> for converting between different calendar formats, so the conversion probably won't be problem so much as its implementation throughout the code. <br /><br /><br />I suppose the main issue is how much demand there would be for this functionality from the userbase. </p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=5108">View Poll: Support non Gregorian calendar formats across Dreamwidth</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=480510" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:472833lady sporky rat of the ms holding and sporkingtonDate Changing2010-11-01T02:54:56Z2010-11-01T02:54:56Zpublic20Posted by: <span lj:user='sporky_rat' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://sporky-rat.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://sporky-rat.dreamwidth.org/'><b>sporky_rat</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Date Changing</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Entries</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Changing Dating Styles</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />I know I'm not the only one who uses the dating style of DD/MM/YYYY instead of the American style of MM/DD/YYYY. <br />I'd like to suggest that the dating style be something that's a choice, not just hardwired. </p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=4950">View Poll: Date Changing</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=472833" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:390058TravisRemember ?style=mine when moving between entries in a journal2010-07-22T20:24:36Z2010-07-22T20:24:36Zpublic15Posted by: <span lj:user='torachan' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://torachan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://torachan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>torachan</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Remember ?style=mine when moving between entries in a journal</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />entries</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />If I'm reading one entry in someone's journal with the ?style=mine formatting and I hit next/previous, it should retain ?style=mine.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />Basically what it says in the summary. It would be nice if when going forward or backward in someone's journal, I didn't have to take the extra step of adding style=mine on each entry, but could have it remember it from one entry to the next.<br /><br />Or even better, if there were a setting where I could have all pages on DW show in style=mine (or the site scheme, which is what I use) so I never had to see other people's unreadable, unnavigable styles.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=3892">View Poll: Remember ?style=mine when moving between entries in a journal</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=390058" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:350464ninetydegrees (90d)☕Settings: date display option2010-06-03T01:49:25Z2010-06-10T12:23:36Zpublic33Posted by: <span lj:user='ninetydegrees' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/'><b>ninetydegrees</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Settings: date display option</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />settings</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />We'll soon have the shiny 24h time display option. Can we please have something for dates?</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />Let users choose how they want dates to be displayed on the site (and in journals which haven't customized it?): yyyy-mm-dd (i.e. the current format), mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy.<br /><br />I don't care about separators ( - or / or .) but being able to choose the order these are displayed in would be great. The current format isn't used in my country and I often confuse month and day.<br /><br /><b>Edit</b> to clarify:<br /><br />I'm suggesting it be implemented exactly the way the 24h option has been implemented: "this will respect the viewer's preferences in sitescheme pages, and whenever the journal owner has not customized the time for their journal."<br /><br />Meaning that if someone's overridden the way time is displayed in their layout via Customize/Advanced Customizations, the viewer's own setting won't be applied. The same way you see one's chosen colors, chosen font size, etc. unless you use ?style=mine.<br /><br />Comments suggest that some users would rather have their settings override all and any other user's settings/customizations. Discuss. :)<br /><br /></p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=3304">View Poll: Settings: date display option</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=350464" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:334202Cheyanstyle=mine in Inbox2010-05-06T05:36:39Z2010-05-06T05:36:39Zpublic12Posted by: <span lj:user='cheyinka' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://cheyinka.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://cheyinka.dreamwidth.org/'><b>cheyinka</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />style=mine in Inbox</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />inbox / notifications</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />Links to entries and comments from the Inbox don't use style=mine even when you've specified that you want to "View comment pages from your Reading Page in your own style", but they should.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />If you've specified that you want to view comment pages in your own style, links to those comment pages have style=mine appended, unless it's a link from your recent entries or archive page (where it'd be superfluous).<br /><br />This is true even if you go to someone else's recent entries or archive page - it's not just links from your reading page, like the option suggests.<br /><br />But it's *not* true for links from the inbox, and as far as I can tell there isn't a separate setting for that. Since it already is more than just your reading page, it should include the inbox, also. (That way if someone *wants* to see the other person's style, the "style=mine" can be deleted, rather than having to *add* that to make the link from the inbox readable.)<br /><br />(Either way, the wording of the option should be made clearer, since it's a) not just the reading page and b) could be site scheme instead of your journal style, if you've unselected "Show entry pages in my journal style rather than the site layout" from the Customize Journal Style page.)</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=3033">View Poll: style=mine in Inbox</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=334202" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:215814janeAdd a link to ?style=site to nav bar2009-12-14T07:38:33Z2009-12-14T07:38:33Zpublic19Posted by: <span lj:user='wistfuljane' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://wistfuljane.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://wistfuljane.dreamwidth.org/'><b>wistfuljane</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Add a link to ?style=site to nav bar</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />navigation bar</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />The navigation bar should also include a "Reload page in: site scheme style" (?style=site) link.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />Right now, there's a link to reload a page in my style and light style and it would be useful to also include the option to reload a page in site scheme style (?style=site).</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=1884">View Poll: Add a link to ?style=site to nav bar</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=215814" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:200435msilverstaradd link to personal & light styles from site scheme2009-12-01T06:15:52Z2009-12-01T06:15:52Zpublic10Posted by: <span lj:user='msilverstar' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://msilverstar.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://msilverstar.dreamwidth.org/'><b>msilverstar</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />add link to personal & light styles from site scheme</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />styles, headers, navigation bar, user interface</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />I am not a huge fan of the site schemes, and would rather see posts in my personal (very green) style. I wish it was easier. </p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />Right now, I can't find any way to switch from a site-schemed post to style=mine or style=light without typing that in the location field of my browser. <br /><br />I realize that you don't want to clutter up the site scheme header, but by adding just one or two links, you make make it easy to not see it. So those of us who prefer other styles and even the navigation bar will be happy campers.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=1802">View Poll: add link to personal & light styles from site scheme</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=200435" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:179038Nora CharlesOption to force default icon when viewing "my style"2009-11-11T08:17:30Z2009-11-11T08:17:30Zpublic78Posted by: <span lj:user='noracharles' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://noracharles.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://noracharles.dreamwidth.org/'><b>noracharles</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Option to force default icon when viewing "my style"</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />styles, usability, reading</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />I would like to be able to choose only to see other users' default icons when I load a page in my style.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />I find the many different icons some users post and comment with very confusing and distracting. I keep having to double check who is who, and sometimes think one user is another if they use a similar icon.<br /><br />I know I have the option to not show any icons and differentiate users by assigning them a color, but I prefer a calm black on white lay-out, and I don't think I would be able to distinguish the colors well enough to tell people apart anyway.<br /><br />For me, consistent icons are the easiest way to recognize users, and it would make dreamwidth more accessible if there was an option to always show the default icon, or alternatively, to assign an icon to a user the way we're able to assign a color to a user now.<br /><br />The good thing about forcing default icons is that users would have a say about how they represent themselves, and that it would probably be relatively simple to code. The minor draw back is that a few users might change their default icon so often that they remain difficult for very visually oriented users to identify.<br /><br />Assigning an icon to a user in my style would be my preferred solution, all things being equal. I'd like to pick one of their personal icons that I feel that I can reliably recognize, the way that we now have the option to pick a color on the manage circle page. I would be happy to use one of my own icon slots for every icon I assigned, that way it wouldn't be a problem if they deleted their icons.<br /><br />I'd be very happy with either solution.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=1675">View Poll: Option to force default icon when viewing "my style"</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=179038" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-02-09:40:140685ninetydegrees (90d)☕Sort Base Layouts by Layout Name2009-10-13T05:13:19Z2009-10-13T05:13:19Zpublic0Posted by: <span lj:user='ninetydegrees' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://ninetydegrees.dreamwidth.org/'><b>ninetydegrees</b></a></span><br /><br /><div class="suggestions-entry"><p><em><strong>Title:</strong></em><br />Sort Base Layouts by Layout Name</p><p><em><strong>Area:</strong></em><br />Select Journal Style/Base Layouts</p><p><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em><br />On Customize/Base Layouts, sort layouts by layout name instead of default theme name.</p><div class="suggestions-longdescription"><p><em><strong>Description:</strong></em><br />To give you two examples, Driting is before Boxes and Borders, and Bases is on page #2. It seems to me it doesn't make much sense as it's the category you go to when you want to see all the available layouts and don't care about themes yet.</p><div class="suggestions-poll"><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=1460">View Poll: Sort Base Layouts by Layout Name</a></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_suggestions&ditemid=140685" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments