Don't know who else reads Merlin Mann's 43 Folders blog, but there's an
interesting new entry there that proposes a way to 'pause' reading
someone's stuff on your friends page (or whatever other term is used)
invisibly to them.
http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/26/pause-button
In other words, if you just need to take a break from their stuff for a
little, you'd push the little 'pause' link, and it'd just not load that
person's stuff for you. You could then unpause later (this also has a
benefit that you wouldn't need to reset custom filters, colors, etc.
that were related to that person on your own journal.)
I suspect that in practice there are all sorts of good reasons this is
really a problem to do (the hit on the database would be very
complicated), but I thought it was worth mentioning for discussion.
(Personally, I can see both pros and cons and don't generally find
myself in situations where this would be partiuclarly helpful. Consider
this a 'throwing out because it specifically mentions LJ functionality
by name')
Jenett
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