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

[matgb]

So you think it's best that someone who's been offline for over a week should have to wade through everything because of an attempt to make DW a community and not be able to get any sort of summary to find the old stuff?

I don't think that's what you meant to say, but that's what you have said.

If I'm away for a week, I strip my reading page down to a few key filters to make it manageable. The otehr alternative, as proposed, to give someone a summary of all posts so they can skip through to find out if someone in their community has said something really important.

Which I think will help build a community.

Alternatively, who are either of us to decide how someone else should use the site? There are already so many separate communities on here, with some overlap, and different people use it in different ways.

More than half of my usage is as a feedreader for off site content. You, on the other hand (with this account) have a very small amount of content.

If you miss a weeks worth of reading, catching up is likely easy. But for those of us that get frustrated if there isn't something new each time we hit refresh, making that cut would defeat our main use of the site.

[holyschist]

Alternatively, who are either of us to decide how someone else should use the site? There are already so many separate communities on here, with some overlap, and different people use it in different ways.

+1

[azurelunatic]

Well-said.

I do Twitter import entries. I don't expect even my personal friends to necessarily read those, especially not the friends who have already read that on Twitter, let alone the people who are subscribed to me because I have intermittent essays about things of interest to them. Contrariwise, I don't expect the people who are reading my journal for the lists of fic I have read and liked recently to want to hear more about my personal life than they got in the Twitter/Delicious import.