"Back to Top" title link should be included in all Dreamwidth styles by default.

[marahmarie]

Title:
"Back to Top" title link should be included in all Dreamwidth styles by default.

Area:
styles, journal navigation

Summary:
Right now a "Back to Top" link (meaning "back to the top of the page") is included in only some Dreamwidth styles by default. Certain styles, including Transmogrified, lack this link altogether. Include this link in all styles by default to make journal navigation quicker and easier.

Description:
This suggestion is to improve journal navigation site-wide.

Right now a "Back to Top" link (meaning "back to the top of the page") is included in only some Dreamwidth styles by default. When you click this link, which is usually located at the bottom of the journal's Recent View page, it makes the page jump back to the top, by linking to the journal's title.

Certain styles, including Transmogrified, lack this link altogether.

Including this link in all styles by default will make journal navigation quicker and easier. Users who don't want this link visible in their journals can add a simple CSS command to the custom CSS box (display:none) to make it disappear.

There is no other solution to wanting to jump back to the top of a journal's Recent View page very quickly except to include the "Back to top" link in all styles by default.

The only drawbacks are it will require time for Dreamwidth's devs to add the link and corresponding s2 code to all styles and to ensure that it displays correctly without jamming up the rest of each style sheet's CSS.

Poll #5516 "Back to Top" title link should be included in all Dreamwidth styles by default.

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

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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (58.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (4.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (4.0%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (34.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

"Send Private Message" link should be on all site scheme pages.

[marahmarie]

Title:
"Send Private Message" link should be on all site scheme pages.

Area:
site schemes

Summary:
For the sake of convenience, a link to the Private Message composer should be included on all site scheme pages. I hacked together an example of what I mean (which shows where I think the link should be): http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll128/marahstest/send_pm_link_on_all_site_scheme_pages.jpg

Description:
Sometimes when you're using Dreamwidth, you'd like to compose a private message, but the way it works now, the link to the Private message composer is not on the site scheme pages.

It's only directly available on the Profile page, and the link to that unfortunately only lets you compose a message to yourself (not that you can't change that once you're in there, but by default, it automatically links to you).

An example of what I mean by "including the link to compose a private message on all site scheme pages" is here (extra link is highlighted in yellow):
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll128/marahstest/send_pm_link_on_all_site_scheme_pages.jpg

Adding the compose private message link to all site scheme pages will allow Dreamwidth users to compose a message without having to hover over the "Read" links dropdown, or else click the "Inbox" link under their username on the site sheme pages, then click the "Inbox" link, then click the "New Message" button.

Three steps gone, now it just takes one!

It will also end Dreamwidth users taking the "shortcut" of clicking the PM link on their profile pages, then erasing their own names from the "To" field in order to compose a new message to another Dreamwidth user.

With the new link in place, composing messages will be speedier, easier, and less of a hassle.

The only drawbacks are the time and testing it will take for site devs to add the link to all site scheme pages and ensure it's working properly.

Poll #5517 "Send Private Message" link should be on all site scheme pages.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (21.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
16 (34.0%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (42.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Separate Reading, Network and Off-Site Subscriptions Into Three Links

[marahmarie]

Title:
Separate Reading, Network and Off-Site Subscriptions Into Three Links

Area:
journal navigation, feeds, reading, network

Summary:
Separate Reading, Network and off-site subscriptions (including subscriptions to LiveJournal and other websites) into three separate links in the default journal navigation.
Example here: http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll128/marahstest/add_link_to_outbound_feeds.jpg

Description:
Right now all Dreamwidth journals include two links for reading content that is not your own: the Reading link, which displays content from your Access and Subscriber lists, and any LiveJournal and/or off-site content you've subscribed to, and the Network link, which displays FOAF (friend of a friend) journal entries and communities, and all FOAF off-site subscriptions.

The current system results in all off-site subscriptions (both to LiveJournal and other website's content) getting lumped into the Reading and Network links on each Dreamwidth user's journal. This makes navigating the Reading and Network pages time consuming unless steps are take to somehow filter out content we each want to avoid scrolling past to get to what we're after on each page.

By adding a third link to the mix (and therefore, a third and completely separate feed for each Dreamwidth journal) the Reading link will display content for just your Dreamwidth subscriptions and access list, and the Network link will do the same for your FOAF list, while the third link (let's call it the "Outbound Subscriptions" link) will display only the LiveJournals and other off-site content you've subscribed to.

I hacked together an example of how this might look:
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll128/marahstest/add_link_to_outbound_feeds.jpg

So you'd have three reading links by default on all journals from now on: the Reading link, the Network link, and the Outbound Subscriptions link.

This solves the problem of "too much to scroll through" on each respective link: if you want to read outbound, off-site content, you can just click the "Outbound" link; if not, you can just stick with the Reading and Network links and they will be faster and less cumbersome to get through, without having to employ clunky filters (which honestly, I have never learned how to use).

The drawback is, I imagine it would take a lot of coding for the devs to pull this off, and I'm not sure every user would automatically want to separate off-site and LiveJournal content into a separate reading page, so it might help to make this an "optional default" (that's oxymoronical, I know) of sorts.

Poll #5518 Separate Reading, Network and Off-Site Subscriptions Into Three Links

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61

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Should be implemented as-is.
1 (1.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
44 (72.1%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (21.3%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.3%)