Luddite spleen

[flemmings]

Man, if lj wants you to switch from S1 to S2 they're going the wrong way about it. That's some seriously scary stuff in there. Layers, levels, children... These guys are high on Photoshop fumes.

And all this because there are two communities I need to join to be able to comment but that I don't want showing up on my FL in all their prolix glory. The only solution seems to be to dump all my friends into a filter that excludes those two comms. But then, evidently, every time I view my FL I must first go through the 'manage friends' hoops and tell it I want to read the 'everyone but' filter.

Is there really no way of making a reading filter permanent? And why the hell doesn't the FAQ have a section on reading filters?

Comments

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

You can join a community but not friend it. Just drop it from your f-list using Manage Friends; you should still be able to post after that.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thank you; you're invaluable.

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this is what you mean but you can create a default filter? IIRC if you create a reading filter named "Default View" that becomes what you see automatically on your flist, as long as you're logged in as yourself.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Again, it's these 'reading filters' I don't get. So I create a custom friends group called 'default view', put everyone I want to see in it, go to the 'filter friends' page and click the box saying I want to read only default view? And lj will remember that? Because when I've used the 'filter friends' option before, next time I opened lj it had gone back to showing all my fl.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

No, if you create a custom friends group called "Default View" and save it, that becomes what you see any time you view http://flemmings.livejournal.com/friends when you're logged in. You don't have to go through the Filter Friends rigmarole. Is what I do. ^^

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That will save time and trouble down the line.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Okay! I was unsure if that was what you wanted. XD