The suggestions post

[denise]

Soon (for certain values of 'soon'), there will be a "suggestions generator", where you fill out forms and it will post an entry to this community for you, for discussion and the like.

Until then, if you've got something you'd like to suggest for Dreamwidth, you can leave it as a comment here! You can review our development roadmap explanation first, since it includes a lot of our upcoming big projects.

The Suggestions Generator is now live! Please fill out that form instead.

Comments

Re: Tweaks to style

[wistfuljane]

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.

Re: Tweaks to style

[mskala]

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.

Re: Tweaks to style

[wistfuljane]

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?

Re: Tweaks to style

[mskala]

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.

Re: Tweaks to style

[wistfuljane]

Ah, gotcha.

Re: Tweaks to style

[triadruid]

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.