Implement a feature similar to popwithfriends.bml

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Title:
Implement a feature similar to popwithfriends.bml

Area:
Circle

Summary:
I loved LJ's Popular With Friends feature and would like to see a similar feature on DW, updated to work with the WTF split.

Description:
LJ's Popular With Friends feature compiles a list of accounts most commonly listed as friends by your own friends. It's a paid feature.

For Dreamwidth to implement something like this, we'd have to figure out what relationships to analyze. I suggest that the feature analyze your reading list's subscriptions. And it needs a snappy new name.

I'd also like to suggest an improvement. LJ's default was to show only the accounts popular with your friends which you hadn't friended, with the option to show all users including your friends. I would like to add the ability to filter the results by personal journal, community, and feed.

Pros
* Users have another way to find things on Dreamwidth they might want to see.
* It's nifty.
* It's probably not super-difficult to code.

Cons
* I'm willing to bet it's rather resource-intensive (since it's a paid feature on LJ).
* Someone could probably make the same feature available offsite, either now or once more export-friendly ways of listing circle data are implemented, so DW might not want to invest resources into it.

Poll #1051 Implement a feature similar to popwithfriends.bml

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (59.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (5.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.6%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)