"Other accounts" should be anchored

[katieastrophe]

Title:
"Other accounts" should be anchored

Area:
profile page

Summary:
The "other accounts" section of the profile page should be anchored so that people can link to it from elsewhere on Dreamwidth or the interwebnets in general.

Description:
If you want to say "my IM details are here" (where here is your DW profile page) you currently have to just point people at your profile page.

If the section was anchored, you would be able to create a link to, for example: http://username.dreamwidth.org/profile#services - and the link would go directly to that section of the page, meaning people don't have to scroll past the bio/interests sections to find your details.

I think this should happen, as it would be shiny :-)

Poll #2846 "Other accounts" should be anchored

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 62

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Should be implemented as-is.
47 (75.8%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (3.2%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (21.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Changing one person's access to multiple filters

[florahart]

Title:
Changing one person's access to multiple filters

Area:
filters

Summary:
I know the option already exists to go to an individual user's profile and choose to modify subscription/access. However, this never occurs to me when I look at the filters editing page (I mean, it will now, since I have made this suggestion, probably...), and it seems like it would be an easy thing to point out there.

Description:
So, when I allow access for someone, or for that matter when I subscribe to them, I may not know them all that well, and therefore may not yet be prepared to give them access to tight filters, or may not know, because *they* have certain kinds of posts locked, that I want to put them on such and such reading filter. Not that I use reading filters myself, but I assume this would apply for folks who do.

So I'm just thinking, when I go to edit filters, what I get, which seems to be a pretty direct reproduction of the LJ approach, is a list of my filters, and then a list of all the people available, and when I choose a filters, a list of who is currently on it. However, it may be that what I want to do is add Jane and Mary, whom I have come to interact with quite often since I initially subscribed/allowed, to three of my access filters and two of my reading filters.

It would in fact be a lot easier to do this by going to Jane's and Mary's profiles and modifying subscription/access, but there's nothing about this option on the filter-managing page. I'm just thinking it would make a ton of sense for that page (those pages, I guess, one for access and one for subscriptions) to point this out for those of us who fail to store this information in our brains. Just a sentence up top: if you want to [change access to/change reading filters for] multiple filters for a particular user, go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/add?user=florahart&action=access (or action=subscribe for the subscriptions page) for that user.

There's certainly a prettier way to say that last part, but I mean, following the example of using my own username to show what the url looks like, as is in place all over the site? Or, a description of how to find the button in the ...circle menu? is that what it's called?

What this solves: me not remembering it's possible to go back to that list of filters I get when I give access/subscribe in the first place.

Drawbacks: More words on the page could just confuse people and maybe the problem isn't a problem for enough people for that to be worthwhile.

Poll #2858 Changing one person's access to multiple filters

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

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Should be implemented as-is.
17 (48.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (5.7%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (40.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Make polls independent of journal entry

[yvi]

Title:
Make polls independent of journal entry

Area:
Polls

Summary:
Polls should be independent of the journal entry they were first posted in.

Description:
This suggestion is related to both http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/106679.html (Poll answer redirection in the same style) and http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/238527.html (Community polls should not be affected by personal journal bannings), in the way that having this done would probably solve both of these problems. I hope why will become obvious in a minute :)

Right now, polls are a kind of weird hybrid between an independent object and something tied to the poll poster and the entry they were first posted in. Given only the poll ID, *anyone* can repost a poll in any entry. The answers to the poll, whereever they came from, are added on top of each other. However, answering a poll will always redirect you to the entry the poll was first posted in, as also linked in the "Discuss Results" tab on the poll page. And who can vote in a poll is determined by the journal that entry is posted at (including bannings) and by the settings of the entry.

This leads to situations such as the one I encountered today: I wanted to add a poll to an entry. However, polls can only be created by posting a new entry, not by editing an old one. So I posted a new entry with the poll and copied the poll ID and edited the poll into the old entry. I made the new entry private. This, however, led to people not being able to vote because they couldn't access the post. So I made the post public again and backdated it, but now everyone voting for the poll in the old entry gets redirected to the new entry, which is also not really what I wanted.

I propose making polls independent of entries. What I am envisioning is a changed poll creation page on which the poll is actually created, so does not depend on having an entry posted at the same time. You should be able to specify a few options, like who will be able to answer this poll (this would need a very good interface with sensible options for posting to communities etc.) and whether you want other people to be able to repost this poll.

Then, when answering the poll, people should be redirected to the entry they answered the poll in. In the style they viewed the entry in, which is where the first linked suggestion comes in - right now the poll only 'remembers' its original entry, which is also why it never redirects in the style you used to view the entry - the information is just never passed on.

As I said, this would need a good, clear interface. But I also think it would make polls on Dreamwidth better.

Poll #2847 Make polls independent of journal entry

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48

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Should be implemented as-is.
40 (83.3%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.1%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (14.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Jump to poll anchor on post after voting

[feathertail]

Title:
Jump to poll anchor on post after voting

Area:
Polls

Summary:
After you vote on a poll, you shouldn't have to scroll back down to see how many votes there are.

Description:
When I vote in dw_suggestions polls it refreshes the page, and I have to scroll down to see how many votes there are. I think that when it refreshes the page it should append the poll anchor to the URL, so that it starts you right there.

Poll #2851 Jump to poll anchor on post after voting

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

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Should be implemented as-is.
32 (74.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (7.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (4.7%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (14.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

abitlity to choose a non-default icon for the size reduced icon (as in the navbar)

[ratcreature]

Title:
abitlity to choose a non-default icon for the size reduced icon (as in the navbar)

Area:
icons

Summary:
My default icon does not look pretty when it is reduced to tiny, tiny size. It looks crappy because I made it with a 100x100 display size in mind, not with a much smaller one. And yet I have to look at it constantly in my navbar. I would like to be able to use one of my icon slots to upload a different picture, one that is already smaller or cropped or that I know won't look ugly at that navbar size, and designate that one to be used in the navbar and in other places tiny size-reduced icons are displayed like when you hover.

Description:
I imagine this could be implemented with a special keyword or something like that, that would tell DW to use this icon as the tiny one. If I don't upload an extra icon, or assign a keyword it would behave like now and use the default.

The advantage is that I could upload an icon that works well at a very small size or already has a small size, but could keep using my regular large default icon in default places that are for large icons, and I would not have to look at an ugly, badly reduced icon in my navbar all day.

The only drawback I can see is that other people hovering over a users icon could be confused by not having the tiny default icon displayed that they may have seen elsewhere, but see a different tiny icon.

OTOH the tiny icon might be recognizable as something on its own, rather than a messed up blob, which especially happens with icons with text and textures that don't reduce well.

Poll #2850 abitlity to choose a non-default icon for the size reduced icon (as in the navbar)

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (35.8%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
10 (18.9%)

(I have no opinion)
24 (45.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

DW specific markup for latest posts feed

[zvi]

Title:
DW specific markup for latest posts feed

Area:
Posting, DW specific markup

Summary:
I'd like a tag which let me link to the latest posts feed, and let me link to a specific latest posts feed.

Description:
I think it would be useful to make it easier to link either to the latest posts feed or to a specific latest tag feed. I propose <latest> and <latest tag="example"> as the syntax, but I am in no way tied to any specific language.

Poll #2857 DW specific markup for latest posts feed

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

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (48.8%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (22.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (29.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)