Dreamwidth has Reading Filters!

I've said a few times that the reason I'm at Dreamwidth and expect in the long-run to migrate as much as possible to Dreamwidth is that they seem to be doing a lot of things right that LiveJournal and most other things I've encountered does wrong.

The first of these was splitting "friends" into "access" and "subscription", so you can track the entries of somebody without giving them trust permission to your private entries, or give somebody trust permission to view your private entries without having to see all of their entries.

Now they've released the alpha version of one of the other huge things I've been claiming for years these sites need: reading filters. It's a paid user only feature, which is a little disappointing, but they say you'll be able to filter on tags! I hope this will begin the death of "I have these filters, let me know if you want on/off them" stuff that, while it serves a valuable purpose, has always felt like a horrid hack of a misuse of technology because the proper technology didn't exist. Instead, I hope to see "I regularly use the following tags; feel free to filter any out you don't want to see."

I don't really have enough readership that I expect this to be terribly relevant, but I'd like to set an example. I try to tag all of my content appropriately, but I know I can be a bit haphazard about it. I am officially soliciting suggestions for tags which I may not have thought of but should use. I would also welcome suggestions for past posts I've made which should be tagged differently.

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