Separate menu items for reading feeds vs. creating feeds

[msilverstar]

Title:
Separate menu items for reading feeds vs. creating feeds

Area:
UI / navigation

Summary:
Move the current Read menu / Feeds item and link to the Create menu. When reading filters are implemented, add the item back to the Read menu with a link to read feeds.

Description:
The Feeds item on the Read menu currently leads to the Create Feeds / Add Popular Feeds form.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/syn/

This is exceedingly disconcerting, as it doesn't fit with the pattern set by the other menu items: Reading Page / Profile / Tags / Network page (paid users) / Recent Comments. Those are all about viewing content.

There is no Feeds item on the Create menu, and it would make sense to move the current Feeds item to that menu.

When reading filters are implemented, add a Feeds menu item to the Read menu, to link to a reading page containing the user's feeds, like the LJ parameter: show=Y

Poll #1114 Separate menu items for reading feeds vs. creating feeds

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

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Should be implemented as-is.
1 (5.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (5.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (35.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (40.0%)

(Other: please comment)
3 (15.0%)

Comments

[cesy]

Add Popular Feeds is about reading, though. Possibly that page (www.dreamwidth.org/syn) should actually be split into two, since at the moment both creating new feeds, and finding existing feeds to subscribe to (which maybe goes better under Explore) are on the same page.

Although splitting up the menu items makes sense, I am slightly concerned about the menus getting longer and longer as more features are added.

[ratcreature]

Yeah I mean, I found the place fairly logical, because I use it to look for existing feeds. Also I don't think adding a new feed to the site fits with the create menu really, because even if I'm the first to add an RSS feed, afterwards I don't control the creted feed in any way, so it isn't actually part of my stuff like posts icons or communities I make.

[ninetydegrees]

N.B. Filters for feeds already exists: http://msilverstar.dreamwidth.org/read/?show=F

[susanreads]

As long as there isn't a search on feeds (to search all feeds for any coming from specified domain / subdomain), the only effective way I've found to subscribe to another site is to ask for it on www.dreamwidth.org/syn and create a new feed - I'm guessing if a feed already existed it would show me that one at the point where it asked me to name it. So unless you've seen somebody using the feed you're looking for, you need the combined page.

I didn't realise that was where the one on the Read menu went; maybe it was added later? When I was setting up my feeds, I went via the FAQs.

[kyrielle]

I would never think to look on the read menu (well, now I would!) for that. I would try 'Explore' first, I think.

[triadruid]

"Other" in this case is more in favor of a total menu overhaul, vs. piecemeal.