Your ideas for the 'sticky entry' feature

[yvi]

Title:
Your ideas for the 'sticky entry' feature

Area:
entries

Summary:
I am looking for people's ideas on the not-yet-implemented sticky entry feature.

Description:
This is not a suggestion, but denise said I could use the community for this :)

Lots of people have made the suggestion for backdating entries in communities, but nothing ever happened in that regard. For the past weeks, I have been working on and off on a feature called the sticky entry (I think it's too late to rename it now :)), which will be available for all accounts, personal and communities.

As it is now, the feature has a few basic capabilities: You post or have already posted the entry you want to show up on top of the recent entries pages for the account. You can then, as the journal's owner or a community moderator, designate one entry to be the sticky entry. It will then be loaded on top of the recent entries page, even if you go back in time. This is basically what people know as a 'sticky thread' on forums.

A bit more information: that entry will be style-able independent from entries through CSS, but will just show like a normal entry when you don't have any special CSS defined for it. For now, we don't have options to style it in the 'customize style' options, but we will, at one point :)

Here's where you come into the equation, though. Apart from an icon and a 'pre-subject text' that can be customized it doesn't yet have any great features. Is there anything that you users want to see for this entry? I am drawing a bit of a blank here and would appreciate any input.

[again, a note that while the patch to implement this as I described here exists, it hasn't yet been reviewed and committed, so it could end up a bit different]

Thank you.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I use the back button on recent entries a lot - not on my own journal, or comms, so much, but on other people's journals I do it a couple of times a day at least (on LJ). I often just read back to find an entry I know was made, or when considering friending someone I'll read back through their journal entries for a bit to get a sense of them and what they post. The sticky post appearing at the top of those pages would get annoying, I think. Especially if it's a long entry. More scrolling, potentially confusing to see if the page had changed, etc. I think I'd prefer the current work-around of the back-dated entry to that.

[velocitygrass]

I use it like that too. Checking out other people's journals (or going back to communities that I don't want to clutter up my reading list, but still want to read at one point or another).