Have the top-bar reading link remember your place

[stuntpilot99]

Title:
Have the top-bar reading link remember your place

Area:
Reading / Commenting

Summary:
Reading link restores your place in your new posts, by loading to the last post you interacted with.

Description:
Scenario is thus:
You read a couple of recent entries
You post a reply and get taken to someone's journal, perhaps read and comment on other posts there from others
You click the top bar read link to carry on working through updates - and you go right back to the start

Have a link which memorises where you were upto, so you get a page load that links you immediately to the last post you interacted with (ie the one you clicked to dive into someone's journal).

Reason being, chances are someone would like to catch up with all unread posts from the day/week or however since last reading, so would typically work through all posts in the unread page until they hit old already read posts.

If your list is big, stepping back to where you left off could easily be several pages, so this is a nice convenience.

Browser back button doesn't cut it as you're potentially stepping back through several comment forms - so it's often equally inefficient.

Issues

Since you last were on the reading page there could have been new posts added to the list, so you might not be at the same point on the page, or even on the same page. But given you can know what post they last clicked on, this shouldn't be an issue.

The last post you interacted with is deleted. Ok, that might need you to go to the next (depends what you know when you build the page the first time, and how easy it is to retain that), or just simply reset and start from scratch in that case. It's never going to be a particularly common case (though I'm sure there's a community somewhere that proves it quite common).

Poll #8896 Have the top-bar reading link remember your place

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 67

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (9.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (4.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
28 (41.8%)

(I have no opinion)
25 (37.3%)

(Other: please comment)
5 (7.5%)

vi keyboard shortcuts blatantly stolen from G+ please

[stuntpilot99]

Title:
vi keyboard shortcuts blatantly stolen from G+ please

Area:
Frontend

Summary:
j and k for forward and back one post. Could perhaps go one further and add h for parent, and l for child.

Description:
Use j and k for forward and back one post. Could perhaps go one further and add h for parent, and l for child in thread.

Ok, clearly I'm a vim user, but regardless of that, these keys are used pretty much nowhere as shortcuts. FF already nicely implements / for search.

The single most brilliant idea of G+ is I can <i>cleanly</i> skip or backup a post with one keypress. (It would appear I'm easily pleased) Spacebar doesn't do it - especially here where a post could be 5 lines or 500 lines with embedded pictures. Also sometimes it's nice to cleanly go back to start of a post to check/re-read. No other site, to my knowledge does similar, but I now press these damn keys on LJ and FB all the time - and still it never works no matter how many times I try! :D

Any other website that offers a shortcut or two tends to be using meta key combinations like CTRL / ALT. This of course means there's a big chance of getting in the way of local applications which have mapped the same combination. Skip post then becomes skip track in winamp or volume and you're irritated (or deafened) :)

DW has lengthy posts regularly - some of them I'm simply not going to be interested in - be that another 206 pictures of someone's redecorating, pet cat, paper clip collection, or simply a huge post on something you've no interest in.

Set an anchor on each entry, and let me skip in one smooth action. It's a simple fix for much added slickness.

Poll #8897 vi keyboard shortcuts blatantly stolen from G+ please

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 65

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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (15.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (12.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
14 (21.5%)

(I have no opinion)
32 (49.2%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.5%)

Adding option to move tags before entry text

[aidadesigns]

Title:
Adding option to move tags before entry text

Area:
tags

Summary:
Adding an option under Customization > Additional options that enables a user to place tags before entries instead of having them appear after entries, as is currently the case.

Description:
There's already an option under Customization > Additional options that enables a user to move metadata before entry text, and I believe having the same option for tags would be useful in many cases.

For example, people could tag their posts discussing sensitive issues with general or trigger specific warning tags, making those warnings easy to spot at the top of the post. Readers could then decide to continue reading that post, search for all posts containing those warnings, or skip the post entirely. (Fan)writers could tag their fiction as original or fan fiction, then tagging it further according to fandom, pairing, genre, etc., making it easy to see and search according to the reader's preferences. The same could apply to (fan)artists and the various arts they post on Dreamwidth.

I don't foresee any problems and drawbacks to this suggestion, and I don't have any knowledge of S2 or other languages to be able to suggest any other ways to accomplish this move.

Thank you in advance.

Poll #8898 Adding option to move tags before entry text

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 75

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Should be implemented as-is.
45 (60.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (8.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (4.0%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (26.7%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.3%)