Index page for ways to filter a page

[ninetydegrees]

Title:
Index page for ways to filter a page

Area:
usability, recent page, reading page

Summary:
Create /index or /filter pages for recent and reading pages which list all the ways you can filter them, give example URLs or link to existing pages when necessary (and, of course, hide them from viewers if they're supposed to be private).

Description:
You can currently filter recent pages by year, month, day, tag, and/or tag combos, poster, security level and also group and type of account for reading pages, and sometimes even a combination of several filters. It's getting hard to remember what all the possibilities and their URL formats are.

This is inspired by at least two great suggestions: http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/545274.html and http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/33097.html.

Poll #7084 Index page for ways to filter a page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 60

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Should be implemented as-is.
53 (88.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (11.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[matgb]

It's getting hard to remember what all the possibilities and their URL formats are

I keep meaning to suggest something both along these lines and also to tidy up the URL formats--ideally anything following by an ? should be replaced anyway, but as I don't know how many different filters there are now i get all confused--definitely need it to be comm.dw.org/author/name instead of ?author=name, etc.

So yes, all filters available listed on a page, and the try to tidy up the URLs as much as possible.