and now I remember my issue. This form works from the circle to the members. It starts with, say, "all the people I'll talk about sex with." Then it presents you with a list of all your friends. You then exclude the people you don't want to talk about sex with — the double negative is part of my confusion.
When I think about this feature, I'm focused on my members. I want to look at, say, lightgetsin and assign her to all the filters where I want her. Instead of having two lists with the items jumping back and forth, there would be one list with a ticky box.
(As far as location, there are more places to set options in DW than I can ever find. Sometimes I'll be able to find it the docs/FAQ, but not always. I'm intuiting no logic why the access filters, for example, are on a different page than the access/subscribe controls.)
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/ is fabulous: provides five options! tells you what they are! Why can't all those pages have a "back to option central" link?
I feel embarrassed to say this, but I'm not dumb. I designed UIs and ran beta tests and all sorts of fancy la-de-da back in the day. It's just that my brain cells have taken a beating from a variety of directions, and I know this stuff could make more sense.
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OK, first it took me 10 minutes just to find this form:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/editfilters
and now I remember my issue. This form works from the circle to the members. It starts with, say, "all the people I'll talk about sex with." Then it presents you with a list of all your friends. You then exclude the people you don't want to talk about sex with — the double negative is part of my confusion.
When I think about this feature, I'm focused on my members. I want to look at, say,
(As far as location, there are more places to set options in DW than I can ever find. Sometimes I'll be able to find it the docs/FAQ, but not always. I'm intuiting no logic why the access filters, for example, are on a different page than the access/subscribe controls.)
While this page is great!
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/subscriptions/filters
I don't have to figure out to use it at all. It is self-evident.
and
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/
is fabulous: provides five options! tells you what they are!
Why can't all those pages have a "back to option central" link?
I feel embarrassed to say this, but I'm not dumb. I designed UIs and ran beta tests and all sorts of fancy la-de-da back in the day. It's just that my brain cells have taken a beating from a variety of directions, and I know this stuff could make more sense.