Reading filters?

[brownbetty]

I really like (although I know some people find the adjustment difficult) the distinction between people you read, and people you want to have access, because that is how I have always thought of friending on lju anyway, and the unfortunate conjunction was just something I had to hack around.

BUT: some of my filters on lj were reading filters so that I could have separate pages, not because I distinguish between the people who I friend, and the people I actually read, just because sometimes I wanted to catch up on my friends, and sometimes I wanted to catch up on communities, and sometimes I wanted to catch up on syndicated feeds. Like, for example, you can go to http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/friends/communities and see just the communities I'm subscribed to. (I believe.)

Is that no longer possible on DW?

Comments

[ratcreature]

Well, you don't really go out looking for features, you just muddle through. I created a community filter by hand before I found out by chance that you could do this automatically too. I didn't have the navbar enabled, and I could hardly intuit that attaching letters to the URL would do something, and only finally found out when some person whose LJ I was browsing had put the links in their sidebar, so I saw the URL version with the "c" for comms attached. Even after that I always forgot what you had to do to see feeds.

And it's not like the reading filter page says something like "If you want to create a reading filter beyond the standard f-list display options (people, comms, feeds) you can do that here" either, or anything to cross-reference the other thing, iirc. While I wouldn't want some annoying paperclip always second-guessing what I intend to do, some references to obscure related features wouldn't go amiss within the text, IMO.