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I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly. I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit w...
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#2: Post edited
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Olin Lathrop
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2021-12-31T14:57:29Z (almost 3 years ago)
- I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly.
- I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit while skipping over the stuff I don't care about. That wasn't much of a problem when there were only a few sites and they all fit on one screen. The sites are displayed on the main page using a lot of space (unnecessarily so in my opinion, but that's another issue). This problem will get worse as more sites are added.
- A sustainable solution is for each user to have their own <i>succinct</i> list of sites that they have chosen. Then it's easy to go thru the list.
Whenever you participate in a site beyond just viewing, the site could be automatically added. Of course you'd have the option to remove it, and you need to be able to manually add sites. For example, I'm "watching" one site now that I haven't participated in, so would want that on my list.
- I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly.
- I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit while skipping over the stuff I don't care about. That wasn't much of a problem when there were only a few sites and they all fit on one screen. The sites are displayed on the main page using a lot of space (unnecessarily so in my opinion, but that's another issue). This problem will get worse as more sites are added.
- A sustainable solution is for each user to have their own <i>succinct</i> list of sites that they have chosen. Then it's easy to go thru the list.
- Whenever you participate in a site beyond just viewing, the site could be automatically added. Of course you'd have the option to remove it, and you need to be able to manually add sites. For example, I'm "watching" one site now that I haven't participated in, so would want that on my list.
- <h2>Added about Dashboard</h2>
- Several comments mentioned the current dashboard. It's not really what I'm looking for, and I didn't know it existed. I went to my profile here and looked around for anything called "dashboard" in any of the sections, but found nothing. I can't figure out how I was supposed to know of this.
- In any case, this only addresses some of the problems. The two biggest problems I see with the current dashboard as opposed to what I'm proposing is:<ul>
- <li>It's way too verbose in its use of space.
- <li>I can't customize which sites I see and in what order.
- </ul>
- Being able to quickly see where there is anything new is very useful, and that's the sort of summary info I'd like to see, <i>but only for the sites I choose, and in a more compact form</i>. When you click on a link to a specific site, you should get to a page that shows recent activity relevant to you. This would include any new votes, comments to your posts, and explicit replies to any of your comments.
#1: Initial revision
by
Olin Lathrop
·
2021-12-30T17:48:20Z (almost 3 years ago)
I would like to see a place that links to the sites I care about, and therefore want to check in on regularly. I currently have to bring up the main page, then click on the sites I want to visit while skipping over the stuff I don't care about. That wasn't much of a problem when there were only a few sites and they all fit on one screen. The sites are displayed on the main page using a lot of space (unnecessarily so in my opinion, but that's another issue). This problem will get worse as more sites are added. A sustainable solution is for each user to have their own <i>succinct</i> list of sites that they have chosen. Then it's easy to go thru the list. Whenever you participate in a site beyond just viewing, the site could be automatically added. Of course you'd have the option to remove it, and you need to be able to manually add sites. For example, I'm "watching" one site now that I haven't participated in, so would want that on my list.