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

[azurelunatic]

Separate manually-controlled reading groups is one of the things that broke in the read/access split, and it hasn't been put back in yet. But it is planned.

Automatic reading groups, like personal journals vs. communities, is around somewhere; it's one of the things that got kept from LJ. FAQ here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=76

[isis]

Yeah, I'm hoping this gets fixed during the beta process as well - I divide my flist into three parts (roughly by fandom/shared interest) plus communities divided by fandom, for a (current) total of 7 separate subgroups all neatly accessible from sidebar links.

[draconic_voices]

If you have the navigation bar set for your journal then when you are looking at your reading page there should be a drop down menu of filters with Journals only, Communities only, and syndicated feeds.

If you don't have the navigation bar turned on, then add:

?show=P for Journals
?show=C for communities
?show=F for feeds

to the end of the web address.

If that doesn't work try adding &filter=0

like so: ?show=P&filter=0

[melannen]

I am considering (not doing yet, just considering) turning my OpenID reading lists into the equivalent of my old filters. You can make an essentially arbritary number of validated OpenIDs with a little creativity, and have a separate reading list for each.

(This got somewhat less urgent when I realized there was a built-in users vs communities filter. Mind you, I found it via the links on the profile page; I hadn't noticed the dropdown on the navbar until I read this post, sigh.)