Filters

[danohu]

Following a conversation with lavendersparkle yesterday, I've decided to start using more filters.


I don't currently use many filters at all. There are a couple for semi-confidential work-related things, and one to separate the Russian livejournals from the ones belonging to people I actually know. I also have a filter for frivolous memes, which consists of friends who post that kind of thing themselves.

I'm mainly adding an angst-filter so that I can post grumpy things without worrying about looking like I'm angling for hugs, and to prod me into moving more things across from my private diary.


So, there will be an angst filter. Who wants in?

[Poll #724434]

Also, has anybody come up with a way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages? It seems silly to inflict things like Cambridge event announcements on friends in America, but at the same time there are lj-less friends who I'd like to be able to see them.

Comments

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

Come the revolution....

And yes, that is *exactly* what I'm after; you've put it a lot more clearly than I did.

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I've been practicing. That is, I had a lot of "ooh, that would be a cool feature" ideas and a lot of "and the database should be thiiiiiiiiiis general" ideas, and rephrasing them until they start meeting in the middle :)

Step #1 is have a look around and see if anywhere *does* implement many of them, step #2 is get on with my life for two months, step #3 is start writing an extensible system.

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

the problem is step #4, which involves gathering the critical mass of several million users, allowing you to pull people away from LJ. But good luck!

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

One of the early design points is to make it easy for people to switch. For instance, make it easy for LJ and other system friends to read your posts, and for you to see theirs (that's easy, incorporate an aggregator, but should allow tag/person/friend-of-a-friend filtering etc). You ideally want a situation where while the full plan has everyone switching[1], it's at least a little bit better for one person. Eg. they can use LJ as easily as now, but have a more customisable and free interface with useful filter twiddles :)

[1] Though not exactly. I think it should be *distributed* so there will be many servers which people have accounts on, and can easily share posts between them. There are technical challenges, but then so are there in everything being run from LJ's servers. I realise I'm reinventing trackback, but it needs to be done :)

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[i-am-marky.livejournal.com]

Why not just edit lj and add in some new features, as it's all open source, and then no-one has to move?

Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

BTW, I have too many ideas that are too disjointed and many of which are implemented *somewhere* to describe everything I've thought, so what I say is bound to seem piecemeal, I'm sorry.

Why not just edit lj and add in some new features, as it's all open source, and then no-one has to move?

Starting from LJ or other open source code probably will be what you'd do. But I believe LJ is not designed for blogs on different LJ servers to work together, so you'd either have to get people to switch to your implementation of LJ, or persuade the lj company to implement many of your changes. And I would like them to, but would like a system which isn't contingent on what they think appropriate.