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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2009-04-15 08:15 am
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What's the deal with this Dreamwidth thing?

If someone could explain in a hundred words or less I'd be very grateful.
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[identity profile] zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, you have misunderstood the subscribe/access split.

You will, actually, have more filters at DW, because you will have both access filters (those are currently implemented) and reading filters (sometime between open beta and launch.)

What it does mean is that you can add someone to your reading page without giving them access to any of your locked content, and you can give somebody access to your locked content without ever again having to scroll past their entries on subjects you find dull. But you are still welcome to have a deepest-secret-thoughts and a mildly-secret-thoughts and a not-so-much-secret-as-embarrassing-thoughts filter, up to 60.

What FAQ are you reading? The FAQs on the DW website are incomplete (it's in closed beta) and if it's something on the wiki, I would like to change it to be more accurate.

[identity profile] songwind.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I was reading over my girlfriend's shoulder, and now I can't find the exact page she was looking at. It is possible it was someone else who was also misinformed about the filters.

This page doesn't make it clear that the reading and access lists are filterable separately, but doesn't say they aren't either. Not unclear so much as incomplete, I guess.

That casts a different light on the whole thing. Thanks for taking the time to set me straight.
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[identity profile] zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem.

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the sound of that. Will definitely have to check this out. Thanks for stopping by to clarify :-)
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[identity profile] zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome.