Huh. I don't think that I'd ever even seen the My LJ (/portal/) page before.
Along with most everyone else here, I don't really use the home page (that is, http://www.livejournal.com/) that often, instead bookmarking directly to my friends page. On the occasions that I do go there, I find it to be really weird--on the one hand, it has user-specific things like Recent Comments and Friend Updates filling up most of the visible portion of the page. But scrolling down, the rest of the page is full of user-agnostic things like In Spotlight, News, and Cool Features. So it's not really a user homepage, and it's not really an explore-this-site page, and instead kind of fails at being either. It would seem to me to make more sense to make the Portal page the default user landing page, and keep all of the user-specific stuff there. Make the site homepage the site homepage, with things like site News, FAQs, In Spotlight, and Explore (hey, did that always have Feeds there? It used to take me forever to find that until I just learned to type in /syn/). Of course, you'd want to have a Quick Links to the friends page, update journal, and portal pages on the site-page, too, but that would be a lot smaller than the user-specific content that's there now. -allen On Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 22:10, Denise Paolucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > >For examples of what kind of modules might possibly be available, >check out the Portal on LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/portal/ . If >you can think of anything else, mention that, too. Bear in mind that >we want to keep the homepage as simple as possible, but we also don't >want to leave out vitally important things! > >--D > > >-- >Denise Paolucci >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. >Coming soon! > >_______________________________________________ >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
