dw_suggestions | Entries tagged with bugzilla: duplicate

Title:
Date Changing

Area:
Entries

Summary:
Changing Dating Styles

Description:
I know I'm not the only one who uses the dating style of DD/MM/YYYY instead of the American style of MM/DD/YYYY.
I'd like to suggest that the dating style be something that's a choice, not just hardwired.

Poll #4950 Date Changing

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 73

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Should be implemented as-is.
62 (84.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (9.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (5.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

msilverstar

Title:
Improve filter error message

Area:
user interface

Summary:
Currently, the error page for a non-existent filter is a blank page and a little text. I suggest providing site navigation and helpful notes.

Description:
The error page for http://msilverstar.dreamwidth.org/read/ooo

Not Found
The content filter you are trying to access does not exist.

It should have the same page design and navigation text as the standard 404 page (e.g. for the page http://msilverstar.dreamwidth.org/ooo), and some text like:

This URL links to a Dreamwidth user's reading filter that does not exist.

If you entered the URL directly or pasted it into your browser's address bar, you may have made a type, pasted too little, or pasted too much. If you followed a link, you may want to report this to the maintainer of the page that linked you here.

To see the Dreamwidth user's page, use a url with their name, like this: username.dreamwidth.org

To check the system status, see http://twitter.com/dreamwidth

Poll #4948 Improve filter error message

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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Should be implemented as-is.
42 (85.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (12.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

ninetydegrees

Title:
Community Settings: option to link to the About section of the profile for guidelines

Area:
community management

Summary:
Summarized in title.

Description:
Dreamwidth has the option to display some links to members upon joining a community. One of them is the link to the community guidelines. However, you can only link to an entry. You cannot link to the About section of the profile, which is the place where most communities have their rules, I believe. It would nice to be able to link to the About section, or even a specific place within this section (you could enter a special word when writing the profile which would serve as an anchor for the link).

Poll #4435 Community Settings: option to link to the About section of the profile for guidelines

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (81.8%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (18.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

snoossecret

Title:
Community administration - edit entry

Area:
editing entries

Summary:
I'd like the people I choose as administrators to be able to actually edit the enteries rather then just comment on them.

Description:
Hi, I'm currently using a community for a writing project with a couple other people. I'd like the people I choose as administrators to be able to actually edit my enteries and for them to be able to edit my entries.... that way we can correct spelling mistakes and add bits to each entry if we need to. I'm not sure if this is possible (or would be widely used) - but in my particular case it would sure help.

Poll #4434 Community administration - edit entry

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61

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Should be implemented as-is.
14 (23.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
20 (32.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
21 (34.4%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (6.6%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.3%)

branchandroot

Title:
Name Layout designer as well as Theme designer in Layout Credit module

Area:
styles

Summary:
At the moment, the Layout Credit module shows the name of the person who made the theme, but not the name of the person who made the layout itself (unless they happen to be the same person). It should show both.

Description:
Background: Settings made in a theme layer override those in the layout layer. This means that, because a theme currently only sets the name of its own author in the layout_authors variable, the name of the layout designer (set in the layout layer) is overridden and erased by the theme setting.

Solution: The easiest way to fix this is to make sure that all theme layers have the layout author's name set, as well as the theme author's, so that both will appear in the Layout Credit module.

Extra Spiffy Solution: Extra refinements might involve tinkering with the layout_authors array and the print_module_credit function to add another variable--one for what kind of author the designer named is. For example:

set layout_authors = [ { "name" => "jane_user", "type" => "user", "role" => "layout" },
{ "name" => "joe_user", "type" => "user", "role" => "theme" } ];

And when those are rendered into links, if there is no "role" filled in then the label for that author defaults to text_layout_authors, which could maybe be set to something more neutral or encompassing like "Designer"; if "role" is filled in, then instead of "Designer" the label would be "Layout" or "Theme", as appropriate.

If the suggestion that the layout and/or theme name be shown in the credit module is adopted, then the labels "Layout" and "Theme" could each be linked to the appropriate page of the "Select Style" area.

Poll #4414 Name Layout designer as well as Theme designer in Layout Credit module

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (82.1%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (17.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

ivorygates

Title:
Credit For Designer AND Style

Area:
styles

Summary:
I think we should be able to see the name of the style as well as the designer in the credits.

Description:
In the section marked "layout credit" on a page, we can see the name of the designer. But we can't see the name of the <em>style.</em> I think it would be great if the style name was also listed ("Modular", "Negatives", "Refried Tablet" and so on) because it would be really great if you saw a style that you liked, you could just go and grab it in "Select Journal Style". Bonus points if the style name (or even the designer name) was a hotlink, but I don't know how hard that would be to implement.

Poll #4322 Credit For Designer AND Style

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
40 (87.0%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (13.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

the_shoshanna

Title:
better subject line for a copy of your own message

Area:
private messages, making things make sense

Summary:
If you ask to receive a copy of a PM you send someone else, your copy should have a more informative subject line than it currently does.

Description:
I love the fact that I can ask to receive a copy of a PM I send to someone; I always want to keep a copy of my own correspondence. When my copy arrives in my inbox, however, it has the extremely uninformative subject line "the_shoshanna sent you a message." I think copies of messages I send someone else should have the subject line "you sent someone_else a message." (Where "someone_else" is the username in question, of course.) That would make it much easier to scan my email folder and find what I'm looking for.

I can't see any drawbacks to this; I suppose being able to see both the recipient of the message I sent and the subject line of the message itself would be even better, but even seeing just the recipient is definitely better than the current version.

Poll #3831 better subject line for a copy of your own message

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36

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Should be implemented as-is.
28 (77.8%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (22.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

thorfinn

Title:
Crosspost to Facebook Notes

Area:
crossposting

Summary:
The crossposter sites option should have an option to "push" notes into facebook.com.

Description:
Facebook.com currently has a Notes feature. You can point it at a public RSS feed to import notes, but that fails to re-import edited notes.

I would prefer to "push" notes into facebook via the crossposter, so that edited notes show up correctly etc.

That may or may not be technically possible to do with facebook's note posting. I suspect it would require some reverse engineering of facebook page code etc.

There are complications around posting security - facebook does actually have the concept of custom posting security, and an extra "friends of friends" level.

Also I'm pretty sure there's no way to prevent comments on a note within facebook, so this option may be problematic.

Poll #3653 Crosspost to Facebook Notes

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53

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Should be implemented as-is.
14 (26.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
20 (37.7%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (32.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

rosefox

Title:
Add customizable text footer to crossposted entries

Area:
Crossposting

Summary:
I would like to see a footer in the text of my crossposted DW entries that (as much as possible) matches the footer on my LJ entries.

Description:
I would like each of my DW entries to have a footer in the entry text that says:

"This entry has been crossposted. Read it on [link]LiveJournal[/link]."

Ideally it should be as customizable as the footer that appears on the crossposted entries elsewhere (allowing the user to change what it says as well as the text style), and have the option for multiple links if the entry is crossposted to multiple sites. Having it appear in the text of the entry is important; showing the current link setup requires style modification (at least for those of us who use custom S2 styles) while having it in the text means it will show for everyone in every style.

To make it clearer, if you look at

http://rosefox.dreamwidth.org/1598852.html?format=light

the crosspost link is very obvious. But if you go to:

http://rosefox.dreamwidth.org/1598852.html

you can't see any info on the crossposts because it's a style object rather than part of the post text.

Poll #3462 Add footer to crossposted entries

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (28.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (11.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (25.7%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (34.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

mstevens

Title:
Ability to add footer only when comments enabled

Area:
Crossposting

Summary:
We would have the ability to add a footer only when comments enabled

Description:
At the moment we can automatically add a footer to crossposts in various situations, but "only when comments enabled" is not one.

This would be desirable, as it would be nice to be able to tell people to come to dreamwidth and comment only when they actually can!

Poll #3194 Ability to add footer only when comments enabled

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (50.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (20.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (12.5%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (15.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.5%)

azurelunatic

Title:
New subscription: Entries I Have Posted

Area:
entries, esn, tracking our site participation

Summary:
Similar to 'email me copies of my comments', an 'email me copies/links to my entries' setting. Particularly useful for entries in communities.

Description:
One of the common wishes I've seen is "locate all my community entries over the years", and having a subscription to send those out as they happen (for someone who knows in the first place that they're going to want this) would help with that.

Comment notifications help with some locating community entries, because each comment notification includes the link, and top-level comments include a copy of the entry, but not all entries get comments, and not everyone has subscribed to comment notifications. This would be particularly helpful for people who post community entries but don't subscribe to notifications of new comments.

If it happens, there would be a couple things to work out.

Should it be for entries only in communities, or should it include entries to your own journal as well? Perhaps those should be separate subscriptions.

Should it only be a link to the entry, with, say, the community name and entry title (less volume to send, easier on your inbox), or should it be the whole entry (better preservation of your words in case the community up and disappears, fills up your storage space faster)? (I'm inclined to whole-entry myself, although a digest mode that took your community activity for the last day and linked to them all would certainly be interesting also.)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that this would be a paid user feature, because the "email me a copy of my own comments" was a paid user feature last I checked, and subscriptions are srs bzns on the resource-eating end.

Poll #3189 New subscription: Entries I Have Posted

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (50.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
12 (26.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.2%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (21.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

draconic_voices

Title:
Choose whether timestamp of entry is taken from email header or from time set for journal

Area:
posting by email

Summary:
Add an option under the mobile settings page of account settings where the journal owner can choose whether to timestamp email entries with the time that they are posted to the journal or the time that the email is sent

Description:
Dreamwidth recently changed the posting by email setup so that the timestamp on the post reflects the time that the email was sent at, which is taken from the email header (as per http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/147571.html). However, a problem arises if the server that the email is sent from is in a different time zone from the time zone set for the journal. The entry is timestamped with whatever time it is in the time zone that the server is in. If that server is in a timezone ahead of the one that the journal is set for, any other attempts to post from email from the same timezone as the one the journal is in encounter a date-out-of-order error.

This is particularly a problem if you are using an automated journal posting client such as loudtwitter whose server is set at EST+4, making it impossible to post by email until four hours after loudtwitter posts if you are in the EST timezone and longer if you are anywhere West of it.

The original post by email set up used the time that entries posted to the journal as their timestamp. Would it be possible to add an option to the mobile settings page to allow users to choose whether to use the time posted or the time the email was sent as their timestamp?

Poll #3091 Choose whether timestamp of entry is taken from email header or from time set for journal

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (54.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (5.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (5.7%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (34.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

glymr

Title:
Please make imported entries act like crossposted entries

Area:
Importing, crossposting

Summary:
When editing imported entries on Dreamwidth, the edits should also be applied to the original post (similar to crossposted entries).

Description:
Occasionally I will edit old entries, to modify tags or fix errors, etc. I was extremely pleased to find that when I edit a crossposted post on DW, its counterpart on LJ is also edited (this made me decide to buy a paid account at DW, in fact). However, if I edit any of my many *imported* entries, the original post it was imported from at LJ is not modified.

It would make a lot of sense to treat imported entries like crossposted entries, and might make people feel more comfortable about coming over to DW, because they know they will have a true mirror of their archive without having to edit two different posts if they need to make a change to one of their older posts.

Poll #3027 Pleas make imported entries act like crossposted entries

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Should be implemented as-is.
33 (52.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
17 (27.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (20.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

domtheknight

Title:
better options for posting access in communities

Area:
communities

Summary:
I would like to reword the "who can post entries to your community" options for clarity, and also add a button on the members page to grant all members posting access or take posting access away from all members who aren't maintainers.

Description:
This requires some background information, since I think the current behavior is confusing and not very transparent.

Currently there are three posting options. The first, anybody can post, works as expected, so let's discuss the other two. The current wording is as follows: All Members: Only members of this community can post entries to it; and Select Members: Members' entries will only appear in the community if they're approved by the administrator or moderator.

To me, it seems that All Members means every member no exceptions, and Select Members means we default to the check boxes on the member page, where a maintainer can go through and change posting access for each individual person.

What actually happens is, if the community starts as Select Members and then switches to All Members, anyone new who joins does get automatic posting access, but members who had previously been in the community without posting access don't automatically get it; a maintainer would have to go grant it to each of them individually on the members page.

I can see that having that sort of setting (All Members except for this one particular member) could be useful in certain circumstances, but I think that the way the behavior is right now, many users will expect that changing the setting does also change the corresponding checkboxes on the members page.

What I'd like to propose is that, since this behavior could be useful, we keep it but provide some additional tools to make it easier to use.

So, I'd like to have Documentation reword the options, so that it's clear on the settings page that switching between All Members and Select Members only applies to new members and doesn't change the corresponding member posting access list. I'd also like to add a button on the member list which would allow maintainers to grant all members posting access at once or take posting access away from all members at once (I think it would be sensible to restrict that to "all members who aren't maintainers").

Poll #2844 better options for posting access in communities

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (87.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.4%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (7.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

lamashtar

Title:
Comment feeds

Area:
comments

Summary:
A comment feed like that used on blogs, so you can receive all the comments made to a community without having to track all the individual posts and clog your email.

Description:
Many blogs now offer comment feeds, in addition to entry feeds. Feed readers offer quick ways of zooming through content to see what you might be interested in. One of the drawbacks to the journal thread system is that if you are not the original poster you won't receive all the comments on a post. People tend to visit the post a few times and then assume the conversation has died and move on. You lose out on participating in conversation you might've been interested in.

With comment feeds, you immediately know when someone has commented on an old post. You can respond and engage them. You can also do searches if you're looking for a specific conversation in the feed, which can be useful for mods. Using this system for blogs has saved me a lot of surfing loading time and I can swiftly determine whether or not a post or comment is worth participating in.

While tracking a post does similar things for specific posts or comments of interest, it requires prognosticating that an interesting conversation will develop and it sends the notification straight to your email box, often filling it up with nonsense you have to open and check each individually. A possible answer is to allow the tracking feature to be set up for feeds, which would allow almost all the features of regular comment feeds, though it would not allow you to know if someone commented on very old posts if the journal you're following has a large archive.

Poll #2724 Comment feeds

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36

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Should be implemented as-is.
12 (33.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (8.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (13.9%)

(I have no opinion)
16 (44.4%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

aurora

Title:
Personal profile pop-up for poll respondents

Area:
Polls

Summary:
Hovering over the userhead icon of poll respondents would make the information pop-up box appear.

Description:
I am seriously nitpicking here, but would it be possible to make that handy pop-up box (with information about mutual subscription/access and a whole bunch of other handy user management links) appear when I hover over the userheads of DW'ers who've responded to one of my polls?

What brought this request on is one of my recent public polls: I opened the results and among the respondents were a few names I didn't immediately recognize; I wanted to check if these folks were on my subscription/access list (I did add a couple new people recently, so I really wasn't sure if they'd subscribed to me or just came over randomly), so my first reaction was to hover over the userhead icon, but instead of information about our DW-relationship status, only the [personal profile] alt-text appeared.

I'm not sure how difficult it would be to add that pop-up box to poll results, but I thought I'd ask.

Poll #2672 Personal profile pop-up for poll respondents

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Should be implemented as-is.
28 (77.8%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (22.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

kellan_the_tabby

Title:
RSS Feed Search

Area:
Feeds

Summary:
It'd be awful nice to have a way to _search_ for a feed, instead of scanning through the list (http://www.dreamwidth.org/syn/list.bml).

Description:
I know you can sort the feed by feed title, and that _does_ help, but there are still some that aren't named what you might expect, and it's a lot to slog through. A simple search box (okay, it might not be simple, I'm no programmer) would make finding feeds a lot easier.

Poll #2541 RSS Feed Search

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Should be implemented as-is.
44 (86.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (11.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

azurelunatic

Title:
Explicitly showing truncation on latest page

Area:
latest entries

Summary:
When entry is truncated for length on latest page, make it clear that there's more to the entry.

Description:
Entries on http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest are truncated if they are longer that a certain length, but there's no clear indication that this is happening. Once you've read it a bit, you catch on that perhaps people post longer things, or that the mid-sentence or mid-word drop-off was perhaps not how things actually were, but it isn't immediately obvious.

Easiest way I can think of is to stick a ( Read more ... ), or whatever the default text is for the <cut> tag, linking to the entry, directly after the cutoff point, to make it obvious that there's more, it just didn't fit on the page.

Poll #2486 Explicitly showing truncation on latest page

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Should be implemented as-is.
48 (98.0%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
1 (2.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

azurelunatic

Title:
Link to journal or comm tags from the update page

Area:
entries, user interface

Summary:
On the Update page, next to the tag entry field, make the 'Tags' label link to the tags page of the journal or community that is being updated.

Description:
Not everybody has all their tags memorized, much less all the community tags for every community they post to, even if they made the tags.

There is auto-fill for tags, but that only works if you are pretty sure about the first couple letters. I usually wind up on the tags page anyway, and this would put that link right conveniently there.

A pick-tags-box would probably be better, but this is something small that someone can do now while we wait for the update page overhaul.

Poll #1638 Link to journal or comm tags from the update page

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Should be implemented as-is.
40 (95.2%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (4.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

highlander_ii

Title:
Add Reading Filter Selection to circle/add page

Area:
circle/add

Summary:
What it says on the box: Add Reading Filter selection list to circle/add page, like the Access Filter selection.

Description:
(( And this may already be on the list, but wanted to throw it out there while I was thinking about it. ))

On the circle/add page, when you're adding a new subscription, you should be able to decided if you want this new journal to be in one of your Reading filters as well as one of your access filters.

Poll #1288 Add Reading Filter Selection to circle/add page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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Should be implemented as-is.
26 (89.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (6.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
1 (3.4%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Dreamwidth Suggestions

Date Changing

Improve filter error message

Community Settings: option to link to the About section of the profile for guidelines

Community administration - edit entry

Name Layout designer as well as Theme designer in Layout Credit module

Credit For Designer AND Style

better subject line for a copy of your own message

Crosspost to Facebook Notes

Add customizable text footer to crossposted entries

Ability to add footer only when comments enabled

New subscription: Entries I Have Posted

Choose whether timestamp of entry is taken from email header or from time set for journal

Please make imported entries act like crossposted entries

better options for posting access in communities

Comment feeds

Personal profile pop-up for poll respondents

RSS Feed Search

Explicitly showing truncation on latest page

Link to journal or comm tags from the update page

Add Reading Filter Selection to circle/add page

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