Premshree Pillai ([info]premshree) wrote,
@ 2005-05-04 17:23:00
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My LiveJournal Wishlist

LiveJournal totally rocks, and I don’t want to move from here. However, there’s a bunch of stuff I really want to see »

  • Categories: Because of the social aspect surrounding LiveJournal, there are issues concerning how to go about the implementation—whether to allow friends to subscribe to individual category feeds, how the “friends” concept would then be affected, etc. I say just go ahead with the implementation, by default friends are subscribed to all categories. We can bother about the nuances later. Incremental development.
  • Trackbacks: These are pretty common, something that every goddamn blog software supports.
  • Statistics: I would like to have visitor statistics, something like what Webalizer provides.
  • Google AdSense: It would be really nice to allow display of AdSense ads.
  • Feeds for comments: I’d like to have feeds for comments to individual posts, as well as for recent comments.

There’s very few reasons that one would want to go for a paid LiveJournal account. Take a look at the comparison. I mean, come on, is customization the only reason one would want to pay $25 for? There needs to be more motivation to buy a paid account. I don’t mind seeing some of the above features paid-only—notably statistics, and allowing display of Google AdSense ads.

Anything else?


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[info]revjim
2005-05-04 01:17 pm UTC (link)
I agree. 100%. Tagging (instead of categories) would be more trendy.


I'd also like LiveJournal's "friends list" changed a bit... I want to see the OLDEST items first. Is that too much to ask? Bloglines does it. If it won't do that, then I'd at least like a "Your friend made a friends-only post" type thing to show up in the RSS feed so that I can get notified of friends-only posts in Bloglines. But, that might piss a lot of people off, too.

I'd also like URL slugs, so the URLs to various entries will be nicer looking. I think that would be enough to get me to outsource my journaling needs to LJ again.

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[info]premshree
2005-05-05 04:08 am UTC (link)
I'd also like LiveJournal's "friends list" changed a bit... I want to see the OLDEST items first.
Umm, I’m not sure I understood what you said. Are you talking about the friends list or the friends page?

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[info]revjim
2005-05-06 01:51 pm UTC (link)
I guess I regard them as the same...

the page found at...

http://revjim.livejournal.com/friends/

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[info]premshree
2005-05-06 02:37 pm UTC (link)
Umm, I’m still confused—posts are ordered in reverse chronological order in the friends page. Maybe I understood you wrong?

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[info]revjim
2005-05-06 02:40 pm UTC (link)
I want them to be in NON reverse chronological order. Oldest posts first.

Say you are writing about your day and you are in a pie eating contest... my friends would go:

4:00pm

I won


3:00pm

I think I'm going to win


2:00pm

I'm entering a pie eating contest



But... that's backwards.

Bloglines lets me read them in the proper order. On top of that, it keeps track of what I have seen and what has changed so I never miss a post and I never miss an update. I miss entire posts and updates all the time in LJ because I'm forced to read backwards until I get to a post that I remember, and then stop reading.

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[info]premshree
2005-05-06 02:48 pm UTC (link)
Ah, like that, chronological order. By oldest I meant latest. :-)

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[info]teemus
2005-05-04 01:42 pm UTC (link)
TrackBacks would be good for the geekarati. The other four you mentioned would be good for mankind! :P

Anything else?
Yes.Search! Plus a feature to 'watch a post'. (You wrote a Python thingy to do this, I know. :P )

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[info]troworld
2005-05-04 01:44 pm UTC (link)
Tags are being worked on at the moment.
So are trackbacks.
Statistics - requested often AFAIK
Google AdSense - will never happen. No ads policy.
Feeds for comments - slightly less unlikely but still pretty remote, I think.

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[info]happysteve
2005-05-04 01:58 pm UTC (link)
a better search and a better way to archive posts.

and didn't SixApart invent trackbacks? (sorry my morning coffee hasn't sunk in just yet for me to look this up)

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[info]premshree
2005-05-06 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Since LJ is part of SixApart, I’m hoping maybe trackbacks will be implemented soon.

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[info]code_martial
2005-05-04 03:32 pm UTC (link)
I didn't get the Categories part at all. LJ already has categories. What is it that you want and they don't provide?

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[info]premshree
2005-05-05 03:21 am UTC (link)
LJ has categories? :-o By categories I mean, I want to be able to categorize my posts—post foo is technical; post bar is personal, etc.

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[info]code_martial
2005-05-05 08:53 am UTC (link)
Duh! Confused it with Friends Groups.

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-05-04 04:59 pm UTC (link)
Categories: Categorical archiving of entries. But once the system you've proposed is in place, categorical archiving should automatically follow, right? Memories are redundant, does anyone read 'em still?

Trackbacks: Hmm..how many LJ users know what trackbacks are? Isn't LJ still a small town where everyone knows everyone else’s posts ;-)

Statistics: Even without a paid account, you can easily keep track of visitor stats – the exact time and ip address. just put a free extreme tracker in one of the posts in your recent entries page. I’ve found Extreme Tracker better for my needs than Webalizer despite latter’s extensive stats.

Google Adsense: No ads. Period. (All I've earned with Adsense from my blog is 1$, agreed it is not a high traffic blog, but still, I think AdSense is overrated)

Feeds for comments: What's that? 'am a brick-n-mortar architect, some geek-speak escapes me.

If am asked Three Wishes, I'd say -
1."Multimediafication" of entries (some 'flash'y stuff)
2. Visual customization of userinfo. (the one thing Blogger does better than LJ is in the design-your-own-page dept for free users)
3.Categorical Archiving.

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[info]premshree
2005-05-05 03:32 am UTC (link)
...just put a free extreme tracker in one of the posts...
This would give me page stats—foo folks have visited my journal home page, etc. Won’t help with post-level stats.

...I think AdSense is overrated
Well, clearly you’re being unfair. There are others who make good enough money. :-)

Feeds for comments: What's that?...
I want to be able to subscribe to the recent comments posted to a particular blog. LJ provides a list of recent comments (you need to be logged in); I want to subscribe to such recent comments of other blogs.

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[info]diffdrummer
2005-05-10 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Won’t help with post-level stats.
you sure are BigB's(not Bachchan) smallB, 'don't wanna miss a thing',eh?

There are others who make good enough money. :-)
Yeah mine could be a case of sour grapes ha ha, can't blame adsense, maybe should blame adblock on firefox(there should be someone to pass the blame other than yourself ;-))

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[info]fox2mike
2005-05-04 05:52 pm UTC (link)
I like the fact that a paid account = access to http://pics.livejournal.com and 100 MB of space there. Why? Coz then I can share pics with "friends-only" etc etc.

Anyway I guess that offer is beta only...once it goes live, I don't think you need a paid LJ account to access it.

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[info]mannu
2005-05-05 10:50 pm UTC (link)
For me the number one feature is search -- I left LJ for that. If you can't find something you wrote two months ago, it's not worth it. Search would also sort of enable "smart categories" -- posts containing a word or a phrase (WordPress has this). FWIW, I'm now using Blogger and have written my own scripts for doing categories. I embed an HTML tag in every post: <!--category:flex-->.

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[info]premshree
2005-05-06 04:25 am UTC (link)
Yes, search is important, but the reason it’s not my top priority is that people’ll end up here (via Google/Yahoo!) anyway if they’re looking for something that’s here.

Moreover, implementing search itself is trivial, so if they intend to do it, they just have to do it.

Um, do you know anybody else who moved to Blogger from WordPress? :-)

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[info]mannu
2005-05-06 09:35 am UTC (link)
No, not personally. I didn't like WordPress interfering with my HTML, and I wanted to experiment with the Blogger publishing model.

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