lesson for the day... changing your default friends view

[kuangning]

Unfortunately, this will only work for paid accounts, unless one of you can answer me on how to change the value of %%urlfriends%% from the overrides section.

Anyway... create a group containing the friends you want to see. Note the URL for it, and then go create a style, if you haven't already, for your lastn view. Scroll down to the bottom, where the html for the whole page is displayed, and replace that %%urlfriends%% with the URL for your new friends group. Then make sure your journal is using the style you just created/edited... (you do that from the modify journal link...) and clicking the friends link on your journal page will show you that modified friends page.

A better idea...

This works for everyone... and much thanks to rahaeli for the nudge in the right direction. According to bradfitz:

Default View
"If you make a friend group called "Default View", only the people in it will show up on your friends list by default.

A few parts of the site know about this ... if you add a new friend with the web interface, the "Default View" group will already be checked, since it's assumed you'll always want to read that person.

This is a cool way to list somebody as a friend but not actually read them. :-)

Note that your default view is only visible to you, not other people. Other people looking at your friends page will see everybody."

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[i.livejournal.com]

if you create a friends group and call it "Default View" it does the same thing.

[kuangning]

*laugh.* Thank you... rahaeli beat you to it by about 30 seconds. :) I took rather the long way around, didn't I? :)

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[i.livejournal.com]

hehe

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[i.livejournal.com]

of course if you do that the people on your friends list can see that your filtering them out :)

[kuangning]

*nodnod* which makes the second way a much better idea... it was never an issue for me only because I didn't filter out people, just the communities. I don't always want to see page after page of poetry. :)

[gurath.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

I've done the same thing now and then.

[kuangning]

*nodnod* The second way is better, though, as no-one's feelings could *possibly* get hurt... there's no way to tell.

[shamroq.livejournal.com]

I guess that's easier than telling someone "Listen, I like you, but I can't take another poem about your boyfriend dumping you."

: )

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[kuangning]

Heh. LIS... for me, it was a matter of not wanting to see the poetry communities interspersed with the "real people" posts. ;)

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[shamroq.livejournal.com]

"LIS"? Is there a new acronym on the block or am I just tragically unhip? Or am I completely hip for NOT knowing it?

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[kuangning]

LIS = "like I said" 's not new... make what you will of that. ;)

[galith.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the public service announcement