A General Question
Apr. 23rd, 2005 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madshutterbugBasically, it's a question about maintaining one's LJ, particularly as I get to a point of interest to contemplate paying for a membership.
There are several communities I'm interested in. I subscribed briefly to one of them, but the volume of postings made it, not difficult, but time consuming to get to the entries from individuals I'm most generally interested in reading when I peruse LJ. There's also the Filters function. So, it seems to me this is the tool I need to investigate solving this dilemma.
General question first: how many of you utilize filters for this or similar reasons?
I'm contemplating this plan:
Create a "General" filter; this includes the people who I'm most often looking at on my current, unfiltered Friends view. Set this up to be the one I use, and I'm in business as usual right now.
Set up a couple of "Community" or "Commune_(subject)" filters; these will include the particular communities of interest. Switch to this filter when I want to skim the communities. Since some of them are graphic intense (photographic communities) this would be most often only when I'm directly connected to the Internet rather than via dial-up out here on the Ranch.
There are several communities I'm interested in. I subscribed briefly to one of them, but the volume of postings made it, not difficult, but time consuming to get to the entries from individuals I'm most generally interested in reading when I peruse LJ. There's also the Filters function. So, it seems to me this is the tool I need to investigate solving this dilemma.
General question first: how many of you utilize filters for this or similar reasons?
I'm contemplating this plan:
Create a "General" filter; this includes the people who I'm most often looking at on my current, unfiltered Friends view. Set this up to be the one I use, and I'm in business as usual right now.
Set up a couple of "Community" or "Commune_(subject)" filters; these will include the particular communities of interest. Switch to this filter when I want to skim the communities. Since some of them are graphic intense (photographic communities) this would be most often only when I'm directly connected to the Internet rather than via dial-up out here on the Ranch.
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Thanks, Everyone
Date: 2005-04-25 04:57 am (UTC)Just as a FYI (more because it fits my misquoting that "Like Minds work in Great Circles," which is a geographic pun):
I've been keeping those communities in an LJ bookmark folder on my laptop. Indeed, quite convenient... except on those day when for some reason I don't bring my laptop to work. There are still times during the day when I may visit LJ while at work, even those communities which might be Not Work Safe. Then my LJ Marks Folder doesn't help me much.
And, I clued into picture placeholders a while back; also a feature of convenience. Even with only a few LJ friends posting graphics regularly, it still helps in a big way on that 26.6 modem connection. *BG* When I start looking at photographic communities, it get's significant (which is one reason I've not joined them yet, and probably will still view them from home only occasionally).