Making communities more visible

[yvi]

Title:
Making communities more visible

Area:
Communities

Summary:
There are several ways in which I think communities could be promoted a bit more around Dreamwidth.

Description:
Apart from searching for interests and hoping that the community maintainers filled out the profile for a community, looking at dw_community_promo, and asking other people, it is a bit hard finding active communities on Dreamwidth. The "random community" button usually doesn't help that much if you are looking for something specific and active. I propose a few things:

* A page similar to http://www.dreamwidth.org/syn/ with the most popular communities on DW, which would be of particular interest to new users, and a link to dw_communitiy_promo . That page could also include links to a few randomly chosen communities (opt-out for maintainers the same as opting out of account creation community promo http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/69578.html )

* A link to dw_communitiy_promo after one has created a community, so that more new communities are posted there

* Split "Recently Active" on http://www.dreamwidth.org/stats into "Recently Active Personal Journals" and "Recently Active Communities". Same with "New Accounts" (though since that also includes feeds, that might be too much)

(Ultimately, I would love to have a "promo page" where community maintainers can submit their community with a nice blurb and then it gets portrayed there for a week or so. But I haven't worked that out yet.)

Poll #2488 Making communities more visible

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54

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Should be implemented as-is.
41 (75.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (9.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (11.1%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.7%)

'Default' Access Groups

[zorkian]

Title:
'Default' Access Groups

Area:
access groups

Summary:
I have several access groups that I put just about everybody in, and it would be convenient to be able to say 'these groups are default -- everybody I give access to should go in here automatically'.

Description:
The summary basically says it all. Some things I would note:

* You can remove people from the groups. So if you do want to give access to someone and not have them in your defaults, you can grant access, then go remove them from the groups they shouldn't be in.

* The UI page that lets you grant access to someone and shows you your groups should show the default groups checked when it loads so you don't have to do it.

* Granting access through the AJAX pop-ups should automatically put people in the default groups.

But, as always, all of this can be discussed and changed through the process of suggestions. I put it to you, dear community!

Poll #2492 'Default' Access Groups

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

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Should be implemented as-is.
35 (71.4%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (28.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Twitter Style User Addressing

[zorkian]

Title:
Twitter Style User Addressing

Area:
html formatting

Summary:
It would be convenient and fairly typical of the modern Internet to be able to refer to accounts using a nice shorthand. I propose using the Twitter style: @mark would be the equivalent of <user name="mark">.

Description:
Writing HTML isn't something that comes naturally to many people. Twitter's style of addressing has been used for many years in email (they certainly didn't make it up) and is now gaining broad acceptance as a modern way of referring to other user accounts.

Given that, I think that it would be awesome to type @denise and have it show up as if I had typed <user name="denise">.

Furthermore, I think that it would be great to be able to easily refer to other people on other domains. For example, I think @news.lj would be easier to type than <user name="news" site="livejournal.com">. Even if we had to type @news.livejournal.com that's a lot easier to type than remembering the HTML and exactly what to put in it.

Poll #2493 Twitter Style User Addressing

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 163

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Should be implemented as-is.
66 (40.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
22 (13.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
57 (35.0%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (8.6%)

(Other: please comment)
4 (2.5%)