Latest page tweeks and filters

[vickyblueeyez]

Title:
Latest page tweeks and filters

Area:
styles

Summary:
I'd like to suggest some latest page tweeks like the option for 'image placeholder', filter and showing user icons.

Description:
I love browsing the Latest page on DW. Sometimes you get loads of images due to RP journals, photography journals and so on. I'd like to be able to view the Latest page with 'image and video placeholders' similar to how I can view my friend's list on my ipad if I'm reading another journal site via their app.

Also I would love to be able to see user icons on the side of the posts. You could accomplish this by maybe making Latest available to view in friend's view or your style somehow. I don't really know.

In addition, being able to not see NSFW journal public entries on the Latest would be great. Having to opt in or out would be fine. Some kind of Latest filter would work.

A language filter would be great too so non English speakers can only see Latest in their language if they desire and vice versa.

DW Latest so far is spam free and nsfw porn image free which is why I read that one more vs LJs.

Poll #11026 Latest page tweeks and filters

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (21.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
12 (28.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (7.1%)

(I have no opinion)
18 (42.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[cheyinka]

I don't know about the language filter - especially since it'd require DW to guess at what language an entry was written in - but the image/video placeholders would be awesome, and the ability to have NSFW/discretion placeholders would be nice, too. (Actually, it'd be nice if they were separate from the reading list placeholders...)

[axiom_of_stripe]

+1

[inthetatras]

The language filter sounds like it would take a fair bit of work to set up, but I am not against the placeholder ideas mentioned.

[turlough]

As long as any "don't show NSFW" filtering is purely voluntary (and opt-in, not opt-out) it would be okay I guess.

[ninetydegrees]

My w/ changes:

+1 to the Image and Video Placeholders options applying

+1 to the Viewing Adult Content options applying

I'm reluctant about the other two, but especially about the language filter.

[lorax]

+1

[stasha2g]

+1

[katherine]

I'd really like to be able to have user icons displayed on Latest.

[susanreads]

I agree with image/video placeholders. NSFW filtering should be optional in some way - perhaps it should follow the reading page option. I'm not convinced about the others.

[anaraine]

I go to Latest to see all of those things. I want to see the pictures and I want to poke at entries in different languages.

I'm not as against having a NSFW filter - but are we sure it doesn't do that already? If your settings have been set not to see NSFW, do you see it on the Latest page? I'm also not against having user icons on the Latest page, but mostly, this sounds like options, options, options, and I'd rather have none of it than just the bits I'm okay with.