Filters - still a few bugs

[neadods]

Posting in case anyone has any idea what to do.

Okay, I set up "default view" and "weekly" filters. When I pop open my flist, it defaults to "Default view."

HOWEVER!

When I hit "previous," the default switches back to "All Friends" when it goes to the skip=20 page. The way around this appears to be confirming the default by hitting the "view" button next to the filter as soon as my flist comes up. Okay, I can live with that.

What's proving weirder is this: Say I want to read everything all at once. So I go to the filter on the first page and click "all friends" "view." It doesn't go to all friends. It goes to the default view. BUT, if I then click "previous," I automatically go to "all friends" on the skip=20 page.

I'm so confused.

There are ways around it, of course; it seems that if I rename "default view" to "daily" and just remember to physically pick it every time I log in, I avoid the whole thing. However, that in itself is also a pain in the patoot.

Filter readers, how do you handle this? If it's possible to type in the filter name in the URL bar, is it possible to bookmark *that* version of the page?

Comments

[isabeau.livejournal.com]

Try making sure the capitalization is "Default View"? I don't know whether that affects things or not.

Viewing all friends despite a DV filter: http://neadods.livejournal.com/friends/?filter=0 (only works for you, not for other people)

Viewing a filter by name: http://neadods.livejournal.com/friends/foobar (eg http://neadods.livejournal.com/friends/daily or whatever)

There is also a numerical value for each filter, which allows you to eg filter your friends page to people who are in either group A or group B, but that's more hassle than it's worth to remember, unless you actually want to know :)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I must say, I like the idea of naming a filter "foobar"!

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

Yep. You can bookmark it. It's a different page entirely, according to URL. For example, my normal page is faireraven.livejournal.com/friends, but the page I view on a regular basis is faireraven.livejournal.com/friends/friends.

So just bookmark the page you want. Me, I put it in the links. :)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'm going to have to decide now if I want to put the daily filter on a link or the unfiltered. Probably wiser to put the unfiltered.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

it doesn't matter which you link to because the only way people can see your filtered f-list is if you make them public. (There's an option on the edit friends filter page)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I figure I'll get busted soon enough for the lag time between post and reply comment; there's no need to go public with the filters!

[lagilman]

I just bookmarked mine. Easier to get to and avoids the temptation to look at everything "just this once" when I need to be in and out fast.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I suppose I could just make it easiest of all and have the filtered version popping up as my second tab. Then it's all ready to go and I don't have to remember to click anything.

[zinelady.livejournal.com]

I'm on AOL and I've put bookmarks of LJfriend,(filter for all my personal friends) LJfanfic (filter for fan fic communities) and LJEps (filtered for episode communities) all on my toolbar so I can check whichever communities and journals I want without going through all of them.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent idea. Now that I've created these two filters, I need to adjust two other ones!