dw_suggestions | The suggestions post

I use a webmail service that has a nifty feature.
I can click a link which opens a new, very small window (I can also open it as a tab). This window updates itself automatically every 3 minutes or so (and I can do so by hand) and tells me when there is a new message in my friends folder, in my unknown folder and even in my spam folder. This way, I tend to *not* reload my inbox every 5-10 minutes, as I often do it unless I'm distracted, but I just have an eye on that neat little window.

I would love to see something like this for my reading page on DW. Tracking the whole reading list is imho not the same thing, as it clogs up my mail account and my inbox.
I imagine this to be a paid feature.
I think semagic has or had a similar feature, where the pen started flashing, when there was an update. You could even tell it to flash only when a certain friendsgroup was updated. Thing is, I'm often at computers where I don't have semagic and thus I would prefer if something like this was implemented into DW.
I guess i would also help other people from not reloading their reading list every 5 minutes...

I can provide images of said notification window, if requested.

I don't know if you use Firefox or not, but there's a Firefox addon called Livejournal Hook that gives you notification in the bar at the bottom of your browswer when you have new entries on your flist, or new messages. It does various other useful little things as well, so I'm desperately hoping a similar addon will be created for Dreamwidth. But something built into the site itself, rather than browser specific would be even better, if it's possible.

Agreed, adding non-browser-specific functionality for this would be a huge plus for those who don't/can't use Firefox, or who don't want to add a plugin just for one site.

But since the LJ addon doesn't allow friends-groups-specific notifications I find that add on very annoying and don't use it. What

elfy suggests sounds awesome though. A feature that allows you to be notified in a small window/pop up when your reading page has been updated by a vertain user/group/community ... that'd be awesome and I agree: It WOULD keep me from refreshing my page every few minutes when I'm bored.

Oh, elfy's suggestion is definitely better than the addon - I just find the addon useful in lieu of anything else. If a feature like this is possible/implemented, I will love DW even more than I do already!

I think it would be awesome if on the manage entries page you could have it display entries between a range of dates (instead of just a specific date). Sometimes I know the week I posted something but not the exact date and clicking through the archive calender can get tedious. Just somethint tha tI thought would be useful.

Just so you know, right now if you click the name of the month you get a list of entries for that month rather than having to go day by day

Some small suggestions:

Currently, the site scheme doesn't make a difference between clicked and unclicked links (although it does have a different link colour on hover). Could this be added? Currently, I find pages with many links, such as the profile page, very hard to navigate because of this.

The site scheme dropdown menu responds very very quickly - just moving your mouse across the page makes the dropdown come up. Could there be a bit of a lag so the menu would only open when you actually want it to open?

When you edit a post, the box containing the entry is substantially narrower than on the update page, frequently resulting in a horizontal scroll bar. (This has annoyed me on LJ for a long time.) Can this be changed?

Failing to distinguish visited and unvisited links is #3 on Jakob Nielson's Top 10 Web Design Mistakes...

Changing the colour of visited links should be happening soon, I think.

That's excellent news, thank you! :)

See posting here. I'd like to be able to control whether I get any given notification by email, separately from whether I get it in my inbox. I gather (from the ensuing discussion on my linked posting) that there are technical issues making that nontrivial, but from a user perspective, that's what I want. At the very least, even without any changes in the options actually available, the user interface for the existing system could be much improved. For instance, to receive comment-reply notifications at all I must say I want them in my inbox AND by email, even though in fact I'm only allowed to have them by email and making that selection means I only get them by email. Choosing "just email" is locked out by the interface even though it is the practical result of choosing "inbox AND email".

I'm also in strong support of being able to activate notifications of comments via e-mail without having them sent to my on-site inbox, if something like that is possible. Having all notifications sent to my regular e-mail client (into which I am pretty much constantly signed in) works really well for me, while I prefer to keep my on-site inbox clear of the "minor" stuff so that I don't risk missing private messages and other specific things. This is the system that I find works best for me in my use of livejournal and insanejournal, and I would definitely appreciate being able to set my system here up this way. As it is, unless there's something I'm missing, the only way for me to receive e-mail notifications is to enable notifications for both.

Thanks so much!

So, so much echoing of what she said.

Same here. I also see my email much more than my on-site inbox, and see no point in having the notifications duplicated - it only means I have to delete them twice! I find the on-site inbox handy for private messages, but for regular comment notifications I would much rather have them sent to my email only, or at least to have the option to set it that way.

Another voice adding support for this.

100% yes, and I've seen other people ~~complain about~~ request the separation of email/inbox as well.

I'm also in strong support of being able to activate notifications of comments via e-mail without having them sent to my on-site inbox

Please. I managed to lose the ability to do this in LJ and I hate it.

Having all notifications sent to my regular e-mail client (into which I am pretty much constantly signed in) works really well for me, while I prefer to keep my on-site inbox clear of the "minor" stuff so that I don't risk missing private messages and other specific things.

Amen. I'm better about checking my on-site inbox here than on LJ, but email is where I think to look...

Agreed, if possible this would be a huge leap forward in usability. It will be understandably difficult, however.

I agree with all of the above! The on-site inbox is easily one of the more useless parts of the website (for me).

OH! To tack on, I don't want to get anything in my Inbox, other than personal messages (assuming dw has this/is going to have this).

So, I guess what I'd like is to choose a "Don't Contact" button and a "leave me alone" (or something with a more funny name) option for choosing no contact for everything.

That's actually where I'm at as well - I want all messages to me to come through one interface, namely email, so that I can conveniently archive and search them. But even a person who wanted to use the "inbox" for some things might want to use email-only for others, so I'm trying to phrase the suggestion as generally as possible.

Precisely—I like to have the inbox for new userpics, birthdays and stuff, but I want comments emailed to me.

Having them mailed to me and go to the inbox means if I want to use my inbox I have to first empty it of lots of stuff I've seen.

The filters help, but it's still annoying, and the reasons LJ gave for not doing it were always stupid. At least D's make sense in a "the code's nasty" way, which is a lot more honest.

I also really support this. I would really prefer to receive pretty much all notifications via e-mail and NOT inbox.

Sadly there are technical reasons why it is not possible to get notifications only by email without also getting them in the inbox. However, some of the developers also don't like this, and are planning to add an option to filter some inbox messages straight to the trashcan, which sounds like a good workaround.

I'm using Negatives Black, which was the default when I created my account, with minimal adjustment or customization. A few things I notice which I think other people would want too, universally enough for them to be reasonable to add to the default:

- I'd like to be able to go to my own user info page from my journal. There's a nice big icon I can click on to look at all my user pics (which I never want to do, at least not from there), there's my username right under it but that's unclickable, there are icons for subscribing to my updates (which I want to do once and then never again) or sending email to myself, but not for looking at my user info (which I frequently want to do). Similar considerations apply when I visit others' journals who are using this style. It'd be nice to have a "user info" link in the same area of the page. Normally there's a head-and-shoulders info link in front of every use of anyone's username, so it's surprising that there isn't one of those where the username appears on the person's own journal. I plan to put important information for potential readers into my user info page, so I'd like it to be easy for them to find it.

- It would be nice to have a "Previous" link at the bottom of the reading page so that I can keep going when I hit the bottom. At present there is one only at the top, where I have to search for it. I imagine something similar will apply to my journal's own page once I have 20 entries.

- There are date links at the bottom of my reading page (currently "April 1 2 3 4...") but they don't take me to Reading Page entries from those dates; they take me to my own entries from those dates. On the other hand, when I view someone else's journal who happens to be using the same style as me, they take me to that person's entries. This is confusing. I'd suggest not having them on the Reading Page at all. Something similar happens with the links at the top like "Recent entries". Maybe it'd be better to have it say something like "mskala's recent entries", or (better still) omit them from the Reading Page. When I see links for dates or archives or similar attached to a page, I generally expect them to refer to the page I'm looking at instead of some user account that may be in some way associated with that page.

I'd like to be able to go to my own user info page from my journal.

Negatives has a navigation bar right at the top of the page, which, among other things, links to the userinfo/profile. I see it on your journal - is that not working for you?

"Profile" works; thanks. I didn't notice it probably because after finding links in that bar to be useless so many times, I've already learned to just not see anything that appears there. I still think it'd be good to have the head-and-shoulders icon appear to the left of the username - I expect one anywhere a username appears in that kind of system-generated text, and not having it is a surprise.

I'd like to be able to go to my own user info page from my journal.

There's a link to Profile at the top of the page in the header that will link you to your user info page when you're viewing your journal and to other's user info page when you're viewing their journal.

It would be nice to have a "Previous" link at the bottom of the reading page so that I can keep going when I hit the bottom.

This is currently a bug for Negatives and the styles team,

dw_styles, are aware of.

There are date links at the bottom of my reading page (currently "April 1 2 3 4...") but they don't take me to Reading Page entries from those dates [...] This is confusing. I'd suggest not having them on the Reading Page at all.

The date links are your calendar module, similar to the calendar sidebar on LiveJournal, you can turn it off for your style here or switch it so it'll be on the sidebar and as the table so it will more mimic a typical calendar? I agree with you that maybe there should be an additional option to turn off the calendar module on the reading page?

As for the texts of "Recent Entries" and similar, you'll be able to change them under Text like you could on LiveJournal. The styles team is working on it, I think.

I don't necessarily want the date links to disappear or appear elsewhere on the page - I just don't want them to link to something that feels unrelated to the page on which they appear. Disabling them for the reading page, should that become available, would probably be what I'd choose... but I'm surprised and disappointed if someone thinks the current behaviour should be default.

Ideally, they'd appear and actually work on the reading page - which means linking to a per-day version of the page they appear on.

Having the calendar corresponds with the reading page, having each day links to a page/section where all entries posted on that day from your circle, would take an incredible amount of resources and restyling, I think.

There's a feature for paid/permanent account on LJ that let you view your friendlist at any given date, but I imagine it's a paid feature because of the resources it take.

For regular accounts, there's a limit to the number of entries from your friends/circle that could appear on your friendslist/reading page. I forget the limit, but like, if your friends/circle posted 600 entries in the last 20 days and it's the 25th on the calendar, I don't think you would be able to navigate to the 1st.

Also, the friendslist/reading page is coded so that it displays entries as they are being made, not arranged by the date/time set, if that makes sense. To re-arrange the entries to a date and by time, when most users live on different timezones...

It would be cool to have a paid/premium feature on DW where you could see your circle list on any given dates and to have a circle calendar page, but I don't think it would be feasible to have that option offer to any accounts? Nor exactly what you're asking.

As a sometime programmer, I understand those points, but I'm trying to comment as a user here, not as a programmer... and what the user sees is "this link does something bizarrely different from what I expected it to do when I clicked it." From the designer's point of view, if doing what the user expects is too expensive, then I think the best resolution is that the link shouldn't appear - even if doing something weird and confusing would be cheapest of all.

Oh, I apologize. I think I misread your comment. I thought that you were suggesting for the calendar to lead to Reading Page entries from those dates if you're on the Reading Page instead of having the calendar be disable on Reading Page by default?

Define "should". I think that having the calendar appear, and lead to the reading page entries from the corresponding dates, would be the best thing for users. I recognize that it may be too expensive to actually do that. If it's too expensive and we can't have it, then I think having the calendar not appear on the Reading Page would be preferable to what we have now. I don't think there's any way that what we have now can be called correct or acceptable. I'm describing the relative priority between three options, not just suggesting one.

Ah, gotcha.

Now that you word it that way, that makes sense. It never would have occurred to me that those links might take me to my Reading Page, but I've been largely ignoring LJ's calendar for 6 years now... a newer user isn't going to be as familiar.

And yes, somehow it seems more obtrusive/linked to the Reading Page at the bottom of the screen than it does in the left sidebar. I don't know why.

Sorry about the multiple comments, but this is where it looks like suggestions are supposed to go, and I figure splitting different suggestions into different comments will make discussion easier.

It would be nice to be able to set a real default security level for postings. I mean that when I make a posting I want the pre-selected security level to be "Access list" but I still want to be able to set the posting to be public. At present, if I set a "default" it is actually a minimum and I will not be allowed to make any postings at less than the minimum security level - though I can edit them to a lower level once made. The current behaviour is apparently deliberate.

At the very least, if a real default can't be made available, the current behaviour should be consistently called a "minimum" more clearly and never a "default", since I thought I knew what a default was and I thought a default was what I was getting; also, disabled levels on the posting screen should be indicated in some more clear way than just greying them out (see linked thread).

Closely related: the existing features for comment screening and comment permission should be called defaults, since that's what they are; the present wording of the config page makes them sound like they will apply universally to all postings.

From your post (your link is bad there, by the way)

ETA: having posted that with "Access list" as the access level, I find that immediately afterward I can edit the entry and change its access to "Everyone (Public)". I think that means the grey-out during initial posting must have been a bug, because I can't see any way this behaviour would be intentional.

As Denise notes, it is intentional--it behaves the same way for communities, where the mod(s) can set a default/minimum. The reason this matters is, if the community has a rule about how things are posted (e.g., this community talks about sensitive personal topics, and people in it know this, so we all post everything locked), if someone posts unlocked and then other people are answering based on their certainty this is a post locked to comm members, it shouldn't be unlocked. However, if the mod goes to the poster and says HEY NOT COOL, the poster needs to not being able to claim inadvertentness of unlocking.

So, as a mod, I do like this behavior and want it to remain; however, I also do see your point that you see contexts in which you do want to be able to just change it in the first place. So, I think what you're asking for is a place to indicate which you have in mind, like,

Default security [drop-down box] Enforce as minimum? [ ] Yes [ ] No

The link works for me - it takes me to

denise's comment saying the behaviour is deliberate. Is that not what it does for you?

I second this. In LJ I HATE HATE HATE having to re-edit something to make it public, even though my default is friends.

I could easily live with a Default Security / Enforce as minimum option. I'm also in the "wait, if I'd set it to my circle and not public by default, I couldn't alter it easily in the security dropdown?? Bogus!!" camp. O:>

Yeah. One is "default", but what we actually have now is "minimum" which is understandable confusing (I never set this option on LJ, so it never occurred to me to change that word).

Any plans to producing an iPhone app for posting entries?

I have an LJ app (though I am not certain if it's LJ that authored it, or someone else), and it makes posting a whole lot simpler for me.

We'd like to, yeah. We don't know a lot about iPhone development, but we're hoping someone out there does and can write an app for us.

I'd like to be able to ban livejournal users, whether or not they've created an OpenID login yet. It would also be nice to be able to ban by IP address.

Edited 2009-04-15 18:17 (UTC)

Banning by IP address - I can see this solving temporary problems (e.g. spammers) but in the long run does it work for keeping someone out of your journal? People can change IP addresses pretty easily - quite apart from things like home connections often changing IP addresses periodically (my ADSL does almost every week it seems) than between home, work, and the anonymity of cafes/hotspots/etc I don't think you have a sure way of keeping a specific person out while maintaining a public journal.

If they've made comments in an imported journal, they'll have an OpenID. (I don't, however, know of any way of *finding* those comments, in order to navigate to their profile page and finding their DW usernumber thing. And ability to preemtively ban would be a good thing.)

Strongly against ban-by-IP. It's much too easy for someone banned to get a new IP address, and for someone else to accidentally get a banned person's old IP address.

This is true, however, I do have a suggestion that is somewhat related... bear with me.

On LJ, if you make comments in various places on the site (friend's lists, communities, etc.) and you change your username (which I presume will be possible here as well) all those comments will show the new username. In the event that you have someone who is an unwelcomed visitor to your journal or are being harassed and you try to change your name to avoid further conflict, they can simply find you via comments.

It is true, of course, that you can just create a new journal, but many times people do not wish to do this, nor do they want to lock all their entries. It would be great if you could choose when changing your name whether you want all comments across the site to reflect the new name or not. Or - another possibility - would be a "delete all comments" feature which allows a user to delete all the comments they've made on the site, all at once. Doing so before changing their name would prevent people from being able to connect the two via those comments. Keeping in mind that I know absolutely nothing about code, so my suggestions may be a lot of work or not even possible.

Edited 2009-04-17 20:27 (UTC)

It would be great if you could choose when changing your name whether you want all comments across the site to reflect the new name or not.

Isn't this already possible? I thought if you chose not to link your new names together, your old name would appear in comments with a ~~strikethrough~~ instead of automatically changing to your new name.

Nope, all the disconnect does it make it so when people visit your old username they see a "deleted" page. All your old comments will display your new username.

I just came across this comment, and even though it's old, I want to explain what's going on here, because it's a little confusing.

In the Dreamwidth (and LiveJournal) database, the primary method of referring to a user is via their user ID, which you can see on your profile. (For example, my user ID is #324.) The actual username, while it must be unique, isn't used to refer to people normally. Thus, this comment I'm making right now will be stored in the database as being made by user #324, not user "sophie". Thus, if I were to rename, the name attached to this comment will change to reflect the new name, regardless of what options are selected.

However, the same isn't true when you do a <user name="sophie"> tag. Here, users are referred to by name, rather than by number. That means that if I were to rename from "sophie" to some other name, then what would happen to <user name="sophie"> tags would depend on whether I asked for a redirect or not. If I didn't, they would be displayed with a strikethrough. Otherwise, it'll be displayed as (and will link to) the new name instead of the old one.

Does that make sense?

That makes perfect sense, thankyou so much for taking the time to type out an explanation!

No problem! I'm glad I could help.

One side-effect of this, btw, is that if you didn't ask for a redirect and the old name gets purged, and then someone completely different takes that name by renaming their journal to it, the user tag you made will point to that journal, because it's the same name as the one you linked to before, even though it's somebody completely different.

That'd be fairly rare, though, I think.

Edited 2009-07-02 01:17 (UTC)

That happened to me on LJ, actually. I ended up letting the new owner know that hey, we're running in the same online social circles so don't be too weirded out if people get us confused.

Is it technically feasible to allow us to import memories? Or is the fact that they would be pointing cross-platform make this to hard to implement?

It's really my own posts that I have saved as memories that I want to preserve in particular (thus they have been imported to DW already).

Yeah, that's precisely half of it -- the other half is that LJ doesn't export that data in any machine-readable format, so we'd have to screenscrape LJ to get it, and screenscraping = Bad (and leads to getting banned).

If we can figure out a way around the screenscraping thing, or figure out some way to do it lightly, what we'll probably do is grab the list, parse it into a nice bunch of categorized links, and post that as a private entry to your journal, tagged "imported memories" or something. But we have to figure out a way around the screenscraping thing first.

The obvious method that suggests itself to me is, of course, to find a dev with spare time, find a patch, and wrap it up with ribbons for Tupshin's review.

Manage tools... plz to put them in top bar?

The homepage lacks functionality and I'm hoping that changes. I do like being able to skim the overall state of my journal there.

IMPORT BUTTON.... must haz it. I keep having to go find my notes on the stuff that got sent out via email to find the linky to the import function. I love how the import function works, for me, perfectly once I followed the initial rituals of make-import-work. Please to also make clear that re-importing the same journal does NOT result in duplicate posts on DW. Which I'm happy about, but was not sure of until I tried it.

Moar later, I keep stumbling on things, and now I know where to bitc---offer suggestions.

-- We have a new version of the logged-out homepage already coded, we're just holding off on releasing it until April 30, because it assumes we're already open for business. We have a new version of the logged-in homepage, with useful links and widgets etc, done as a mockup, but it hasn't been coded yet.

-- The import frontend as exists right now is totally a three-second "omg we need a frontend for this" hack. *g* There'll be a better one, and it will be linked in the appropriate places, by open beta.

I found the import link! I am assuming that stuff I import will have whatever security listing it had on LJ...? I sure hope so, or I'm going to be going yelp-yelp-yelp as I plow through and re-set private/public/trusted-circle-members... O:>

I can't wait to buy more icon space here so I can import my icons... >_>

Yes, security levels are retained.

Every time I created a poll in LJ, I had to go look up which was which between radio buttons and checkboxes. The only place I could find this info was in the write your own poll code bit. I never remembered, because I didn't do then that often.

If it's possible to put that detail in the FAQ for polls, that would be awesome.

Thanks

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buttons are button shaped (round), check boxes are box shaped.

But which is the one where they can only tick one, and which is the one where you can tick all that apply?

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Radio buttons (the round ones)= only pick one. Check boxes (squares)=pick all that apply.

Just a thought, but is there a way to do mass amounts of icons at one time? I have about 2000 icons on my HDD, and that is NOT a typo, and I'd love to have a tool that will let me upload, say, 20 or 30 at one time instead of one at a time.

Just a form with Location, Note and Comment, then the next line. A button to increase that to accommodate even more would be killer, but I can be happy with 30 at a time instead of just one.

I suggest this because of the Icon communities that will be springing up. There are a lot of people who create 30-80 icons in one group on a theme, then upload them. One of the things I HATED about LJ and IJ is that you can only upload them one at a time, which for a large batch could take a while.

Just a thought.

You can already do that, actually! We added it for that very reason. :)

you ROCK.

I totally missed that I could do this and was thinking it would be handy. :D I thought I was wishing for the stars only to find Dreamwidth had already sent me on the voyage in a spaceship! Thank you :D

"Manage tags" appears on my journal page, but not on the equivalent page for the community I admin. At first it appeared that I couldn't manage tags for the community at all. I was eventually able to get to it (by going to the user info and choosing it off the drop-down menu) but it would be nice to have it accessible in the same way as on my own journal.

Within "manage tags": strange highlighting of "used" tags on the list. This may or may not be a bug but it confused me. I created tags like "thoth", "waite", and "manara" (which refer to different tarot decks); then I learned about the "genus: species" syntax for tag grouping and decided to change to that, so I changed the tags on the posting. The old tags remained. I deleted them in "manage tags", which was fine, but then when I deleted the overall tag "decks", which at the time was unused, suddenly all the tags on the list lost their highlights and appeared unused. Frightened that that might make all my tags disappear, I added the overall tag back, and then the highlights were correct again. This suggests to me that there may be something not quite right in how the user interface manages the highlighting on the list.

Is it possible to enter multiple e-mails for community? For cases where there are multiple administrators, but the community is rather casual and there's no need for a group e-mail to be created, it would be nice to just list multiple e-mails for contact instead of having to either 1) create a group e-mail or 2) list all the e-mails in the profile where's there no guarantee that they'll be scrambled against spam?

Would it be possible to merge tags? Say, if I didn't pay attention when I came up with tags for my journal and made two or three that basically are the same? Like, say, "huzzah!" and "huzzah". Instead of re-tagging all the posts involved, it would be neat to just go and merge the tags themselves. :)

Oh yes, I would really like this feature too!

"Me three". I am currently losing the battle to wrangle my tags because doing so by re-tagging all my stupid typos or naming convention fails is tedious.

Me being the fourth to raise her hand on this.

Oh, god, yes please! This is currently my top wish for a DW improvement. Even if we could just go into "manage tags" and re-name a tag to match an existing tag.

I'd also love to be able to automatically add another tag to all entries with a certain. Both of those should be easily doable with the existing frontend.

(I'd also love to be able to batch-tag - go into "Edit Entries", select a bunch of entries, add a tag to all of them at once. I've been spoiled by LibraryThing's tag-management system.

It would also be nice if I could use my arrow keys to scroll down the tags list in "manage tags". And if I didn't lose my place in that list every time I changed a tag.)

Yes yes yes! This would be great!

To tack on to this (and the original in the thread):

I'd like to have an option to spontaneously create a new tag. Like, say you're writing about a topic (for this hypothetical situation we'll say you're talking about poker), and when you start out, you don't think you'll write it very often. Three entries involving talk about poker later, you realize you want a tag for poker.

I'd like to suggest being able to go into the maintenance of tags, create the tag 'poker,' and have the option to search through previous entries that have the word 'poker' and tack on the tag. (I'm not sure if I'm explaining it properly, please to be giving feed back on the readability of this)

that would be absolutely beautiful! I was having trouble with tag management just today and would have paid gold for this feature >_>;

Please please this PLEASE.

Oh, that sounds like it would be exceedingly useful!

I know I've said it elsewhere, but IWBNI closed-beta users could reserve a seed account if they're not going to be on-line around open-beta time.

I have two suggestions:

1. I like that I can add a few other services to my profile, like Twitter. Any chance of being able to add our links to even more of the bigger social networking sites, like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Digg, etc?

2. Kind of related, I really love the AddThis or ShareThis widgets that can be found on blogs and a lot of websites these days, where you can bookmark something or share it on Delicious, Digg, Twitter, Reddit, etc. with just one click. It would be really awesome to have that available on each public entry. I guess it would be better as an opt-in thing for people who don't want to make it easy for their entries to be shared/bookmarked.

It should also be an opt-in for viewers (or there should be an opt-out) - in any case, it should be possible to get rid of it. I do not use any of those services, and I find the buttons obnoxious on websites which display them.

agreed. though i personally don't want to see any other social networking services written into the code beyond our ability to show where else we are on our profiles.

In that case, it by-gods ought to be possible to ignore/hide LoudTwitter autoposts. Those are MUCH more annoying than anything else that gets crossposted, to me.

OMG, I 110% agree. I don't want to read people's LoudTwitter. Some people, I don't give a shit what they're doing at any given time, others, I'm already following on Twitter.

As a compromise, I'd like to be able to go to their profile and *see* if that person is on any other sites I might be interested in following them on. So, I guess I'd like more boxes on the profile page to indicate what other sites we're on. OH! And bonus points if we can select which read-group we want to see the answers.

http://matgb.dreamwidth.org/tag/loudtwitter

One line of CSS. You've been able to do it since loudtwitter was invented, just as I've been styling LT since I started using it (although I've now stopped).

In relation to 1, there is a plan to not only add more sites, but to add the ability to specify sites yourself, so if there's a social networking site no-one else has heard of, you can still add it yourself using the tool that will be created. I don't know how soon this will happen, but I got the impression that this plan is the reason they haven't rushed to add other sites in the meantime, because the code will all change when they create the tool to add your own site.

Difficult to do without a whitelist though, and not whitelisting leaves open huge holes for spammers/blackhats to try to get you to load malicious websites.

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Top of my list of things to do when I start hacking my own layer code is to add share this buttons—Igot one half ready on LJ but got stuck on some code, should be fairly easy, virtually all allow you to have a link that looks something like

sharingsite.com/share?url=ENTRYURL&subject=SUBJECT&text=TEXT

Next few days is the plan. And I'll be shouting that bit of code out from the rooftops. I'll also make sure mine is CSS styles so those objecting can remove them.

This must be the proper place for the idea I put in one of the news posts. lol (And coolhunters.) Not trying to spam it around, but I figure I should put it in the right place now that I can.

I suggest, if it's possible, adding a feature to the moods/listening/location area of a post for reading/watching. Years ago, GreatestJournal and Xanga both had it. You'd enter the title and it would pull an icon-sized image of the cover and also link it back to Amazon.com.

IIUC, that involved licensing some sort of database (or database rights) from Amazon. Around that time was also the bubble of new sites solely dedicated to book collections, CD collections, etc. I think some of them licensed other databases instead, like the Library of Congress. No idea how expensive or inexpensive any of that is to do, or what other database options are available, but I loved the feature. Doing it manually when you post is possible but it's time consuming, so building it into the site would be awesome.

Bonus if you use Amazon and I can enter in my associates account, and thus get money if people buy the books I mention.

i've been thinking about suggesting an additional field for reading/watching, i think that's a great idea, but i'm not too keen on it linking to amazon. not everyone is going to want to advertise for amazon, or any other site, with their personal journals.

On posts where there are so many comments that they overflow into more than one page... currently, the link to the other comment pages is ONLY shown just after the post-content, between the post-content and where the comments start. What would be good would be if there was also a navigation link to the other comment pages at the very bottom of the page, because the most common method of reading the comments is to read all the comments on one page and then go to the next page, but currently, in order to do that, one has to scroll back to the start of the comments.

Yeah, that's a style-specific issue, and we've got a bug filed for it already! Thanks for letting us know. :)

Fixed now! Thanks again for letting us know (There's a bug where some of the links are black on black, so the links to other pages aren't showing up in the default color scheme, but we have an eye on that and will fix it as well)

8-) Thank you for letting me know.

When someone hard-codes a font into their post -- <font face="whatever"> or <span style="FONT-FAMILY: whatever"> in their html, style=mine does not override it on LJ, and I am stuck with whatever godawful font they choose. I would like style=mine to override this somehow and display the post in my regular font.

I hope that makes sense! :)

Edited 2009-04-16 01:38 (UTC)

you can manually type ?nohtml=1 to the end of the url, (or &nohtml=1 if there's already a ? in the url), which will turn all html into codes. Though that can be potentially messy and difficult to read, if someone copy pasted from Microsoft Word into the rich text editor I think.

Though that can be potentially messy and difficult to read, if someone copy pasted from Microsoft Word into the rich text editor I think.

Or if someone doesn't use the rich code editor. I use HTML for everything in my posts, and I know I'm not the only one. :)

Same here. (Though I don't define fonts; I find font-size-defining to be obnoxious whenever I find it on the web. It is invariably not comfortable for my eyes.) I don't trust the rich text editor. O:>

But just to add, I think it would be great to have that as an option... you could turn on an option that would enable a "no html" button in the navigation strip up top, which you would click and it would reload the page without html.

Basically, people doing this sort of thing need to be told to stop it and taught CSS.

There's no effective way of doing it without DW completely stripping their code out when they hit submit on a post, browsers always read the most recent...

You can do it in your browser I think. Yes, in Firefox, go tools/options/content There's a bit where you choose your font, click advanced, and uncheck the 'allow sites to override these settings' options.

There's not really a way a site can do it—but getting your friends to behave and learn some basic web manners is a good long term plan, even if it's harder to do.

in polls i've created, i've always been frustrated by the fact that i have to vote myself in order to view the votes others have made each time i load it. i would love for the default setting to immediately show poll results (rather than displaying all of the tickyboxes/radio buttons/etc), or possibly even an option in the poll creator to immediately start displaying results or to leave it open for the creator to vote.

You can just hit submit without voting on anything. I just learned that, like, two weeks ago, and already it has made my life better.

you are a saint.

You are made of win. :D

Okay, I would like to throw in something which has bugged me on LJ for a long time; I know you can make a "blank vote" to see poll results, but if you click a radio button (the circular ones) accidentally, or want to take back your choice instead of changing it, there is pretty much no way to "unclick" that radio button, like you could uncheck a ticky box (though there is, I think, a Firefox add-on for it.) I would really like that option.

You can change your vote and preview results in LJ polls. You need to click on the poll number (in the format #1234567), which brings up links to view the results, 'discuss results' (which takes you to the post where you can make comments), or 'fill out poll'. If you click 'fill out poll' you can change your answers. However, there's no way to remove your answer(s) entirely.

I'm aware of that! And if I am choosing from a dropdown menu or ticking checkboxes or filling in a text field I can remove my answers entirely. Once I select a radio button, however, it can't be "unselected", which is why I'm suggesting that be an option.

Yeah, I get what you're saying, but that's something common to almost all websites that use radio buttons; the only feasible workaround is the aforementioned plugin or some sort of "reset poll answer" button.

I'd support a "reset poll answer" button being added.

OMG you just MADE my day!

Heh. So, this is something I just remembered I've wanted for years, reminded by having broken my style on LJ playing with new stuff. And keeping in mind that I'm not CSS girl, and not likely to be anytime soon--which I'm sure I'm not alone in.

I would LOVE the ability to save, at least, my existing theme/style settings, so if I hate what I changed it to, I can just click the Never Mind button and have what I had when I started, before I broke it all. *sigh*

Better yet, a function that lets me save the specs for a specific theme/style, with all the settings, under a name. With limits, like--I can save five themes or whatever. So when the winter holiday season hits, I can just pick the Bewitched Christmas theme I made the year before and voila! Good to go.

Also, y'all rock. :D

Oh, oh, I think you'll like http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/styles.bml!

(Only available to paid users, though)

ooooooooooooooooooooh. That's SO cool. I spent WAY too much time last night trying to remember the name of the style I'd had before I borked it. I wrote down color codes and image links, but not the style name. *headdesk*

The other thing that was annoying about that process was that when you ask for styles, you get not just styles, but all the variations on the styles, if that makes sense? So all I really wanted was a list of Minimal, Mixit, etc., one each, which I think would have been about 20 or 30 line items. What I got was page after page of variations on the base styles, almost 800 in total, and the one I use didn't show up until about two-thirds of the way through.

It would be awesome to have a sort/filter option that lets me just see that base list--maybe right under All on that left-hand column on the Select Styles page? I'm gonna change the colors and stuff anyway, so I don't really care about the variations.

:D And no worries, I will definitely be a paid user. *rubs hands* Can't wait, really.

Thank you!!!

I've always known that page was there on LJ and here, but I always forget where it is.

Given that it's a fairly simple undo/select previous option, I don't think it should be in Advanced, I think it should be alongside the basic theme selection area, as anyone can use it.

This is the obligatory get rid of adult content filters post.

Bullet-point response to obligatory get rid of adult content filters post.

Adult content filters are still available on Dreamwidth, because they do serve a useful purpose, but in much modified form:

* The system is entirely voluntary. No one else can flag your entries or force your entries to be flagged adult

* The names of the levels have been changed, from "adult explicit" and "adult content", to 18+ and 14+ (though I think that they're eventually going to be renamed to 18+ and some variant of NSFW)

* You can give a reason for why you're flagging your journal/entry as adult, and it will show up on the interstitial page

Combined, I think that all three changes make the system neutral and useful, instead of creepy and policing.

(I do agree, admittedly; my main reason for being on the no filters side is that I am under 18 still :P)

(Aww man.

Hey, there's no guarantee that people will filter all the interesting stuff ;-))

Even when they do, I just go through. I haven't set an age; I'm planning to set it as soon as I turn 18 next year. Unfortunately, that's still 10 months away.

Actually, I don't really have a problem, per se, with people filtering posts or even communities. That's a choice made to protect the content and the writers themselves that I can understand. My main problem with the filters is when people set entire private journals to adult content. That irks me.

And I actually really like that there's an option to give a reason for flagging it.

That's why you lie about the year you were born in ;)

I've always been against the reporting part against the filters.

I'm not happy with the filters still being around, but not being able to police is an acceptable compromise (and I'll even be happy with it, since it's not such a big deal, and more especially since it's going into a NSFW).

I also feel that there shouldn't be an ability to report someone one your friends list (a post of theirs, their journal, whatever). Simply because if something they did offended you WHY DON'T YOU JUST USE COMMON SENSE AND UNFRIEND THEM?! That's what pissed me off the most about strike through.

You can give a reason for why you're flagging your journal/entry as adult, and it will show up on the interstitial page
What's inter-whatsit page? And where?
About the reason (since there's no FAQ yet), which is optimal to use: keyword or sentence?

I thought it was like the interest box which uses keywords.

The interstitial page is the intervening page, that shows up when you try to click through to an entry that's NSFW or 18+.

I think that a sentence looks better.

It looks like this

Oh, I see. Thanks a lot!

THAT IS EPICALLY EPIC :O

1. When I track a post, "send email" is marked as default. I'd like the ability to make it so that the default is off (unchecked). This is because I like to have only comments in my journal/replies to my comments emailed to me, so that I don't mix up comments addressed to me or in my journal, and comments that have nothing directly to do with me.

2. When DW saves post drafts, the body is saved, but not the title of the post. I'd like it so that anything typed in the title box is also saved.

And tags, and the userpic associated with that post, and - basically everything.

Would it be helpful to create a semi-official community for all the tutorials that have been popping up? I'm thinking this could hold people over until the documentation is completed.

You could point people at

[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<user="getting_started">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]

You could point people at <user="getting_started">, both the people looking for tutorials and the ones writing them.

:)

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Community tag management issues

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