Sticky Posts on *Your* Reading List

[archangelbeth]

Title:
Sticky Posts on *Your* Reading List

Area:
Reading list

Summary:
Reader-defined posts to "Sticky" at the top of the reading list, to get back to them without forgetting them.

Description:
So there's this great post, and you need to think on it for a day before replying... But in a day, it's off the bottom and you forget. Or this long post you want to follow, but you don't want to see all the notifications for comments to it because your inbox will explode. Sure, you can put it in a tag, but your browser might crash twice and lose it.

But you don't really want it in your Memories -- it's not going to be important enough for that. Further, you tend to forget things which aren't right in front of you. (*beth coughs and looks innocent*)

So you click a button and it's sticky <I>for you</I>, on your reading page! Now you can see that you need to send someone a wedding gift, or you can reload and see how many new posts are on that interesting entry, or whatever, because it's right in front of you!

Downside: sticky too many posts and it'll take a while to scroll past them...

Downside: unknown technical difficulties in implementing.

Downside: people reading your reading list will see your stickyposts?

Poll #968 Sticky Posts on *Your* Reading List

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (25.0%)

Should be implemented with changes.
23 (52.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
6 (13.6%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (6.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Comments

[bankai]

This would be so helpful.

[zarhooie]

I love this idea, but I'm thinking that some sort of "sticky posts" area on the sidebar/under the links area would work best. Just make it into another sidebar module and call it a day.

[cheyinka]

Yes, that sounds good.

[lassarina]

Oh, I like this implementation!

[ninetydegrees]

Would it be something one-column layouts could still display? If they set the module in the header area?

[zarhooie]

Yeah, that's sort of what I'm thinking. It'd be a module you could set, sort of like the links module or the texty box-y thing module.

[ninetydegrees]

The only issue I can see with a sidebar module is that it's generally not as wide as an entry so the content displayed there would have to be really limited. Like in the page summary module even though I think this module has already too much info to be readable.

[kyrielle]

I like.

[scemo]

+1

[zvi]

+1

[azurelunatic]

+1

[cesy]

+1

[archangelbeth]

I'm of mixed emotions on sidebarring it -- out of sight, out of mind... Top-barring it, though, might well work. (That or the lower-down auto-cut suggestion would certainly help with the scrolling issue.)

[turlough]

I like this!

[ciaan]

Not so much a fan of that option, as I like to remove all that sidebar stuff in my styles.

[ninetydegrees]

I would love this if the sticky only displayed the titles of the post or cut the content after a few lines. Like a digest or something. I would love this even more if it was implemented in a way that stickying/unstickying didn't need any reloading.

[zvi]

I think keeping it short is great, but only useful if it also displays recent comment counts.

[archangelbeth]

Yes, it would definitely need to display the comment count in some way, so you'd know if Huge Interesting Post had finally become less-commented-upon.

[poulpette]

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days now, and I keep coming back to the idea of a sticky entry where the entries you are interested in are added as a list of links.
Soemthing like :

1. entry title - #comment(s) - reply
   n first characters (words?, paragraphs?) from the entry (or cut text if all content behind cut)

Maybe with a setting to put behind a cut text after n entries have been sticky-ed, to keep it from eating your read page?

It would cut on the amount of stickies on top of the page, make use of the sticky functionality already existing (by specifying or creating a specific entry when first using the functionality).

I'll admit I'm not too keen with the idea of yet another sidebar module. But that's just me.

[susanreads]

me too

[melannen]

...you mean there's a way to do this where I *don't* have to have five dozen tabs open at all times?

*faints*

[kate_nepveu]

I'll vote for module of titles + comment counts.