Yeah, the combination of 'watch' and 'trust' in the friends system is the primary inconvenience of using LJ. I suspect it would be difficult to separate them now, though, since the friends system is pretty close to the core of what makes LJ function.
Another feature LJ would have in a perfect world would be reader-end filtering. In other words, a labeling system to allow you to see only my conlang posts and none of my fandom posts. Of course, one can keep separate LJs for different subjects, but that's too much trouble for me to go to when there's so much overlap -- a lot of fandom people turned out to enjoy the conlang stuff, and vice versa.
My friends list is certainly a diverse group these days -- different fandoms, conlangers, real life friends -- so I figure no one person is interested in all the things I post about. And when you've got a lot of people whose journals you follow, the skimming can get to be too much.
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Date: 2004-02-03 01:21 pm (UTC)Another feature LJ would have in a perfect world would be reader-end filtering. In other words, a labeling system to allow you to see only my conlang posts and none of my fandom posts. Of course, one can keep separate LJs for different subjects, but that's too much trouble for me to go to when there's so much overlap -- a lot of fandom people turned out to enjoy the conlang stuff, and vice versa.
My friends list is certainly a diverse group these days -- different fandoms, conlangers, real life friends -- so I figure no one person is interested in all the things I post about. And when you've got a lot of people whose journals you follow, the skimming can get to be too much.