Profile flag for presence in another's circle

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Profile flag for presence in another's circle

Area:
profile

Summary:
A flag on certain usernames when they are listed in the profiles of others, whether or not you have subscribed to them or granted them access.

Description:
The usernames of people in your own circle are flagged (with <em> and <strong>) when they appear in the profiles of others. However, there may be particular other users (who you have no desire to subscribe to or grant access) that you would like to be flagged about when you are looking at the profile of someone else.

You could, of course, search for them yourself, but the human memory is a fickle thing and one may not remember all the people one wanted to notice.

One would enter the usernames in a list somewhere (with some sensible limit for list length) and then see a special character after the username when it appears in someone else's profile list (maybe even one's own).

This could work in conjunction with the Notes feature if that is brought over from LiveJournal.

Poll #1052 Profile flag for presence in another's circle

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (22.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (12.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
13 (32.5%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (32.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Implement a feature similar to popwithfriends.bml

[sofiaviolet]

Title:
Implement a feature similar to popwithfriends.bml

Area:
Circle

Summary:
I loved LJ's Popular With Friends feature and would like to see a similar feature on DW, updated to work with the WTF split.

Description:
LJ's Popular With Friends feature compiles a list of accounts most commonly listed as friends by your own friends. It's a paid feature.

For Dreamwidth to implement something like this, we'd have to figure out what relationships to analyze. I suggest that the feature analyze your reading list's subscriptions. And it needs a snappy new name.

I'd also like to suggest an improvement. LJ's default was to show only the accounts popular with your friends which you hadn't friended, with the option to show all users including your friends. I would like to add the ability to filter the results by personal journal, community, and feed.

Pros
* Users have another way to find things on Dreamwidth they might want to see.
* It's nifty.
* It's probably not super-difficult to code.

Cons
* I'm willing to bet it's rather resource-intensive (since it's a paid feature on LJ).
* Someone could probably make the same feature available offsite, either now or once more export-friendly ways of listing circle data are implemented, so DW might not want to invest resources into it.

Poll #1051 Implement a feature similar to popwithfriends.bml

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (59.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (5.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.6%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Display username on confirm screen on new accounts, to catch typos

[cesy]

Title:
Display username on confirm screen on new accounts, to catch typos

Area:
account creation

Summary:
Display the username before creating new accounts, to catch typos in names.

Description:
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/362229.html discusses confirming usernames before creating accounts, to reduce the number of people who typo their username and then have to open a Support request to get it fixed.

On the wiki, someone suggests implementing by displaying the username and email address before creating (i.e. adding it to one of the existing screens) rather than asking for confirmation of account name in a separate step, which sounds like a good solution to catch typos without annoying users who checked their typing in the first place.

Poll #1048 Display username on confirm screen on new accounts, to catch typos

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Should be implemented as-is.
34 (82.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (9.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.4%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (4.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Save entries when converting a journal to a community

[cesy]

Title:
Save entries when converting a journal to a community

Area:
communities

Summary:
Don't require entries to be deleted before converting a journal to a community

Description:
As susggested at http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/870673.html

Ability to convert a journal to a community, but have posts made in that journal not deleted. Attribute those posts to the first maintainer of the community.

(http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=78&view=full describes the current process for converting a journal to a community, which involves deleting all the entries.)

Poll #1049 Save entries when converting a journal to a community

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (52.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
11 (28.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (5.3%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (13.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Adding Customizable Menu to non-journal "frontpage" pages

[archangelbeth]

Title:
Adding Customizable Menu to non-journal "frontpage" pages

Area:
Links: Celerity sidebar, Troposphere... dropdown?

Summary:
Add a section of the menus in the secondary pages (comment pages, the suggest.bml page, etc.) that is customizable by the user the way that their journal appearance is.

Description:
I was egged on by Cesy. O:> We'd love to have a section of the menus (Celerity for me, presumably Troposphere for Cesy) that we could put various links on. E.g., Memories, this Suggest An Improvement page, a LJ page, our favorite webcomics... whatever we might want to refer to while writing a response to someone's post or comment, basically, and don't want to have to go navigate back to the front page of our journals to find. A half-dozen links would probably make me pretty happy.

Downside: requires adding a customizable menu (module?) to however many schemes/styles/whatever these are -- or at least a few of them.

Upside: no one bugs you about putting *their* favorite DW-related link into the default menu, for a good long time! O:>

Possible Upside: if you find a way to track what people put in their customizable menu, and find that a substantial number of them use X link, you can consider putting X link into the default ones, too.

Thanks!

Poll #1053 Adding Customizable Menu to non-journal "frontpage" pages

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
24 (63.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (7.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.6%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (26.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Add "expired last month" to circle gifts in the shop

[cesy]

Title:
Add "expired last month" to circle gifts in the shop

Area:
shameless money-grubbing

Summary:
Have "Expired last month" as well as "Expiring next month" on the Circle Gifts page.

Description:
For Circle gifts in the shop, it would be neat to have a list of friends whose accounts expired last month - I tend to hold off buying for people who are expiring next month, because they may still be planning to do it themselves, but someone who let their account lapse last month probably isn't/can't afford it, and they'll get hidden in the list of people who don't really use their accounts or who I don't know well enough so I haven't bothered buying paid accounts for.

Poll #1050 Add "expired last month" to circle gifts in the shop

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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Should be implemented as-is.
44 (89.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (10.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

icons used in transmogrified

[kaigou]

Title:
icons used in transmogrified

Area:
icons, usability

Summary:
The icon used for "filtered post" in transmog style is identical to the icon traditionally used to indicate "protected from viruses": a shield.

Description:
Could we possibly get that "filtered" icon* changed to something more intuitive? Or at least to something less misleading?

I know the notion of "filter" is a hard one to create an intuitive icon for, but honestly, the one being used doesn't make me think "filter"; it's too much like the MacAfee and DiskWarrior styled shield icon/badges. Every time I see a post with that on it, my first reaction is, "how the hell did a virus get into my post?" as though the icon is trying to alert me that my post has been cleaned. I see the icon nearly daily, yet it's still losing its uphill battle against nearly a decade of "shield = VIRUS!!" reinforcement. 

ETA: icon in question is

Other applications using a variation on the shield-shape: Norton Antivirus, Windows Network Security, eScan Virus Check, Windows Anti-Virus Software, Hotspot Shield, Symantec Antivirus, A-Squared Anti-Malware, Spy Sweeper, Windows Updater (tray icon), Ewido Anti-Spyware, AVG Anti-Spyware, Anti-Malware 2009, Sophos Anti-Virus, USB Disk Security, Orbasoft ApS [...and more but I got tired of typing.]

UPDATE 8/21: proposed icon on the boards (see comments) is by Turlough, using two silk icons together:

From a usability perspective, "filter" is one of the hardest concepts to iconify, because it's not a concrete thing. (I've even seen "flour sifter" used as "filter"-icon, and how many people still know what that is?) The difficulty is perfectly illustrated by the fact that DW's "filter" icon isn't even "filter"-like, but instead is trying to riff off the idea of "shielded".

In a new application, we can and do learn new icon-meanings, which may complicate the learning curve but afterwards we're savvy. In this case, though, DW is trying to pre-empt an icon that has a well-established meaning. That makes for some major cognitive dissonance. I'd say I'm pretty savvy usually, but I keep stumbling when I check the settings after posting. If it's late, or my eyes are tired, a few times I've even automatically clicked on the little shield, nervously expecting a message to pop up from DW about how I just got stopped from sending the I-love-you-virus to everyone on my flist. Or something equally horrendous.

Either come up with an icon that does relate to the concept of "filter" (good luck, because it is hard) OR shift the semantics to a word that can be illustrated more easily (much as 'shielded' -> 'protected' does) and transition in a new/unfamiliar icon to go with it.

* I have no idea whether the icon is consistent in all styles; I'm only familiar with transmog to any degree.

Poll #1056 icons used in transmogrified

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (38.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
12 (24.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
10 (20.0%)

(I have no opinion)
9 (18.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)