Hide and reveal entries on Reading page

[green_grrl]

Title:
Hide and reveal entries on Reading page

Area:
Reading page

Summary:
The little triangles on the Inbox page that allow you to collapse or reveal the full text of what's in each entry? Add that function to the Reading page. Ensure that "collapse" or "reveal" persists in later views.

Description:
Subscribing to someone's journal is a mixed bag. You did it because she's an amazing writer. Maybe he always collects the most interesting links. Maybe you're good friends from back when, although you have different hobbies now. So there are many posts by your Circle member you want to read. Unfortunately s/he also posts a gazillion memes uncut, lengthy descriptions of fights with little sister, and/or highly intelligent thoughts about a fandom you've never even heard of and don't care about.

Multiply by entire Reading Circle, and there are numerous posts to skim past quickly to get to the ones you want to read.

If people were perfect about their tagging, it might be possible to just get notified of the entries you want to read. But they're not. Even if they were perfect about it, sometimes it's just one of their tags you'd want to exclude. And sometimes you might be less pressed for time and willing to take a chance on that long essay about the fandom you never heard of.

I love those little triangles in the Inbox. I want them on my Reading page--to be able to quickly skim my Reading page and collapse the entries I'm not interested in down to just poster and title. Then I would be able to go through the entries I really want to read at leisure, and not worry about missing one tucked between two I'm skipping past quickly.

As I skip back entries, or as I re-log in, I would like the collapsed entries to stay collapsed.

Poll #932 Hide and reveal entries on Reading page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 59

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Should be implemented as-is.
25 (42.4%)

Should be implemented with changes.
16 (27.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (15.3%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (11.9%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.4%)

Comments

[elizabeth_rice]

I'm against this idea. See, if people find that they are skipping half or more than half of the entries made by any particular user, then they should probably unsubscribe. Anyway, users can track other journals via tag or all new entries made (which is about the same as subscribing but at least the notices go to the inbox where you may mark entries as read even!).

[green_grrl]

But what if the 49% of the entries are really, really good? Or if 80% of the person's entries are good, but the 20% are over-the-top annoying? And as I said, not everyone's good about tagging, and even if they are, you can't subscribe by "exclude $tag". Re: subscriptions, mine go to my email, which I check far more often than my Inbox, and it would get quickly overwhelmed with stuff I really, actually want to read on my Reading page.

[elizabeth_rice]

But what if the 49% of the entries are really, really good? Or if 80% of the person's entries are good, but the 20% are over-the-top annoying?
*smile* A few years ago, I made the decision to keep a small and manageable reading list. I'm also a fandomer so I do understand.

Anyway, DW will be introducing reading filters soon. That would make it easier, right?

[green_grrl]

If the reading filters with tag function happens, that would definitely be good! I could even switch some of my subscriptions to get entries out of email and into my reading page where they belong.