I see your point: bundling can be a useful way to minimize options and decrease coding headaches while providing the most commonly used functions to the majority who uses them. The rest of my reply contains concerns about that, possibly based on erroneous information, as I do not use FB or Greader and therefore may be misinterpreting what you mean by "bundle".
First, a question: if one did create such a system of a separate memories tag for anything with a ticky, would locked entry titles be visible to unauthorized people? Or were you thinking of memories as a private-only function like seeing one's own latest comments is? I think the person who first raised the memories overhaul as a solution specifically stated there could be both public and private memories?
Well, either way, if DW bundled too much automatically without user control, I wouldn't use the button, because for me its entire purpose 90% or more of the time would be like a wave from a distance. I wouldn't be interested in tracking comments, saving the page for later, or making the page title visible on a list for others. Having those features bundled in automatically would make me not want to click on the ticky, simply because then I would have to go about untracking, removing from lists, etc. It would defeat my purpose of speedy communication and would therefore become useless for what I need from such a button. Not to mention using up DW resources I would have no need for.
That's not to say that adding in some optional features via a drop-down menu wouldn't be a good idea. The optional features available when one clicks on "delete this comment" are very useful to a subset of users, and that structure might be helpful here, too. I would happily use a button that gave me the option of saving to favorites the 5-10% of things I clicked on that I actually wanted to go back to later.
P.S. Your icon is beautiful and is making me very hungry. ^_^
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First, a question: if one did create such a system of a separate memories tag for anything with a ticky, would locked entry titles be visible to unauthorized people? Or were you thinking of memories as a private-only function like seeing one's own latest comments is? I think the person who first raised the memories overhaul as a solution specifically stated there could be both public and private memories?
Well, either way, if DW bundled too much automatically without user control, I wouldn't use the button, because for me its entire purpose 90% or more of the time would be like a wave from a distance. I wouldn't be interested in tracking comments, saving the page for later, or making the page title visible on a list for others. Having those features bundled in automatically would make me not want to click on the ticky, simply because then I would have to go about untracking, removing from lists, etc. It would defeat my purpose of speedy communication and would therefore become useless for what I need from such a button. Not to mention using up DW resources I would have no need for.
That's not to say that adding in some optional features via a drop-down menu wouldn't be a good idea. The optional features available when one clicks on "delete this comment" are very useful to a subset of users, and that structure might be helpful here, too. I would happily use a button that gave me the option of saving to favorites the 5-10% of things I clicked on that I actually wanted to go back to later.
P.S. Your icon is beautiful and is making me very hungry. ^_^