Reading List - Headline Edition

[green_knight]

Title:
Reading List - Headline Edition

Area:
reading list

Summary:
Give paid users access to a pared-down version of their reading list containing just posters, post titles, and tags.

Description:
So between my slow connection and a hectic week I haven't caught up with my rlist. Which now means that I have to wade through several hundred posts.

It would be awesome if I could simply load a page containing authors, headlines, and tags instead of the full list - this would reassure me that I haven't missed anything important from my dw-only friends. It would also make it easier to go back whenever I think 'I saw something on my rlist before my browser crashed/I shut down my computer' (which happens on occasion).

It would also make life easier for people using netbooks or smartphones.

Personally, I'd be happy with author/headline/tags rather than adding 140chars (or whatever - a brief chunk, anyway) - but that might be a matter for depate.

Poll #5183 Reading List - Headline Edition

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56

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Should be implemented as-is.
38 (67.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (8.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (3.6%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (19.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[snakeling]

The problem with hiding it with CSS is that you have to load it anyway, and elf is on dial-up.

You could modify your theme layer to not display the entry text, but it would have to apply to both reading and network page, because afair, they're the same as far as S2 is concerned.

[matgb]

Yes, but a paid user can have another working layout that does this for Reading and Network pages and simply add the S2ID to the URL to see it.

Have a look at my journal in my style, click the 'pale' link and you get a basic version of my layout designed for those weird people that prefer white on dark. That persists across links, for reading, etc.

I'm pretty sure I could code a Reading page that doesn't show entry, I think it's even possible to truncate entries to a max of X characters.

Thus I don't know what to tick, I think my 'with changes' is get someone to knock something together in S2 then write a howto.

[marahmarie]

We did this on LJ, didn't we? Wasn't it - oh, now I recall, it was s2 to truncate your own feed, not the content of the reading page (what we called our Friends page). OK. So now I have to change my "Other" vote to "implement as-is"....

Stupid brain fog.

[fu]

Network is based on the reading page, but you can do something like:

If ( $p.view == "network" ) {
# stuff
}


to make the appearance different. So it is technically possible *G*