I generally agree with this, but I would point out that I'm pretty experienced and I regularly go through the main page to get to my journal. I use a shared computer at work and can't bookmark anything LJ related here. It easiest to just type in the URL to the main page and go from there.
That said, I don't need much. A link to my journal, to my profile, to my firends page, my update my journal. I like being able to see easily if there are any messages in my inbox. And recent comments are nice. I also kind of like the community spotlight feature. No idea if you guys are planning to do something similar, though, and I can live without it. Six (With apologies to the OP who got this twice since I forgot to reply all the first time.) On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Rachel Walmsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Denise Paolucci wrote: >> >> Brainstorming time! What kind of modules do you guys think would be useful >> to have on the logged-in homepage? These are the things that would display >> to you when you visit www.dreamwidth.org while logged in; potential examples >> would be things like recent news updates, a small Recent Comments display, a >> stripped-down/abbreviated update page, a birthdays box, etc. > > My best guess would be that new users are likely to visit the home page a > whole lot more than experienced users. I suspect that most people just go > straight to their friends page without bothering to check in on the front > page first. I also think that that's the way it should be. The main content > on any LJ code based site are the journal entries, and the friends page is > where the entries are. I think that trying to make the home page or the > portal page more appealing to long-term users is doomed to failure. Nothing > that anyone can put on them is ever going to be half as appealing as what's > on your friends page. > > As such, I'd say to tailor the front page predominantly towards new users, > with links to things like the friends page (what's that going to be called > after the wtf split?), the update page, and the update profile page all > listed prominently. It's not so useful to people who know the site inside > out, but so what? They're never going to visit the homepage anyway. > > (The other side of this is that I think it would be really really awesome if > portal-like modules such as birthdays or recent comments could be made > available to S2, so we can have them (as optional style modules) on our > friends pages. That's much lower prioriy than getting the homepage right > though, obviously.) > > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
