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Seeing icons on the main page.
I came over from GJ and I know this is its own site and it will be different (not to mention I know you're going for your own creative spin on things which I totally respect) but one of the features I loved about GJ was its main page in how you could see the default icons of the five most recent posters. Maybe this says a lot about my mental state but when I'm bored I loved just refreshing the main page to see what witty/clever/pretty icons I would see. This would also sometimes inspire me to click on certain users and I met a handful of people on GJ that way because I found we shared the same interests just because I'd click to see their icons and end up reading their public posts *g*.
So that would be my suggestion because it's a good way to meet new friends (not to mention amuse the simple-minded folks like me!) :)
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March 2024
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Not what your after but, http://www.insanejournal.com/random.b Seconded. (I never had any use for it on GJ and wouldn't like it on IJ's main page, because I like that the page isn't cluttered & loads quickly, and visit it for news and the list of recently updated asylums, not to find friends or click on random journals.) If implemented, it should be a feature that a user can opt into, not enabled by default. Not all of us think it's all that shiny or great. I dunno, that feature made me flock most of my posts when I made them (and going back and unlocking them afterwards) so I wouldn't show up on the front page. I don't know why, but it just irked me. I agree, not everyone liked it for whatever reason, but I think this is a good idea. I know on the "My IJ" page there full of boxes you can add or subtract and I've taken down a lot of those boxes just because I don't think they're needed. So yeah--if we could have that option, it'd be really good :) Thank you! Even more ironic was the fact I found it because someone had it defaulted and posted so I saw it on the main page of GJ *laughs!* I'm not trying to curry favor with that statement, no. It's just true. Of course, I'm an icon whore and love the funnies *giggles!* |