Zorac (zorac) wrote,
Zorac
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Friends page overload

Gah. Things are getting to the point where my friends page regularly picks up dozens of posts in just a few hours and keeping up with them all is just draining far too much of my time. Something has to change, as it means that other things are not getting done. Two options present themselves: firstly, I could just defriend a whole bunch of people who I don't really know, secondly, I could just read my friends page filtered. To help me decide, here's a gratuitous poll which I may or may not take any notice of. Enjoy.

Poll #176376 To de, or not to de - that is the question.
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 33

What should I do about friends-page overload?

View Answers
Trim down your friends list - it's the honest thing to do.
11(33.3%)
Use filters, then folk can still read your protected posts.
16(48.5%)
What-ev-er...
1(3.0%)
Ha! I defriended you first!
0(0.0%)
I don't care what you do to them, just don't defriend me!
5(15.2%)
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  • 14 comments

imc

September 5 2003, 06:00:07 UTC 17 years ago

  1. Do you often talk (or answer back) to yourself like that?
  2. What's the point of friending yourself anyway?
  3. Use filters - I do, and eventually when I get around to fiddling with my LJ style I'll make the `Friends view' link point to my filtered version by default. (This may bring the shocking realisation for some that I don't actually read their journal despite having them on my friends list, which is mainly because I don't mind them reading my protected entries.<g>). (Oh, and another thing I'll do is put an `update journal' link at the top of my journal. But that's not relevant right now.)

zorac

September 5 2003, 06:16:26 UTC 17 years ago

  1. I try not to do it too often. At least in public - some people seem to think it a sign of madness (not that I've ever made any claim on sanity).
  2. Two reasons: Firstly, for various reasons I like my own entries to appear on my friends page. Secondly, so that the mutual-friends highlighting on userinfo pages does so for me as well as my friends.
  3. Are you aware that if you have a friends group called 'Default View', that filter will do exactly what its name suggests? And I've just been thinking that an 'update journal' link would be handy - some S2 hacking this eveniong, methinks.

Default View

imc

September 5 2003, 06:38:36 UTC 17 years ago

No, I didn't know that. Is it documented?

Re: Default View

zorac

September 5 2003, 07:10:18 UTC 17 years ago

It is mentioned in the FAQ, although I'm not sure if that's where I found out about it (probably in lj_nifty).

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=102

Re: Default View

imc

September 5 2003, 07:30:54 UTC 17 years ago

Oh yes, so it is! :-)

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