Posting Entries

[exor674]

I have been working on a Android client for Dreamwidth and LiveJournal based sites and am wondering what you would look for from the post entry screen.

ETA (Oct 30, 2010):This poll is now closed, thank you.

Poll #4668 Features I care about for posting entries

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 125

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I care about....

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Posting to communities
66 (52.8%)

Subject
116 (92.8%)

User Icon
103 (82.4%)

Mood
45 (36.0%)

Mood text
24 (19.2%)

Music
23 (18.4%)

Location
21 (16.8%)

Disable Comments
41 (32.8%)

Change Comment Screening
42 (33.6%)

Age Restriction
13 (10.4%)

Age Restriction reason
4 (3.2%)

Tags
106 (84.8%)

Disable auto-formatting
10 (8.0%)

Other...
22 (17.6%)

Other? ( or comment )

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I would prefer the following on the main post screen

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The actual text of the entry
124 (99.2%)

Posting to communities
36 (28.8%)

Subject
113 (90.4%)

User Icon
85 (68.0%)

Mood
28 (22.4%)

Mood text
6 (4.8%)

Music
6 (4.8%)

Location
7 (5.6%)

Disable Comments
6 (4.8%)

Change Comment Screening
4 (3.2%)

Age Restriction
3 (2.4%)

Age Restriction reason
0 (0.0%)

Tags
92 (73.6%)

Disable auto-formatting
5 (4.0%)

Other...
7 (5.6%)

I will rarely use

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Posting to communities
31 (24.8%)

Subject
2 (1.6%)

User Icon
4 (3.2%)

Mood
46 (36.8%)

Mood text
56 (44.8%)

Music
70 (56.0%)

Location
77 (61.6%)

Disable Comments
54 (43.2%)

Change Comment Screening
57 (45.6%)

Age Restriction
90 (72.0%)

Age Restriction reason
89 (71.2%)

Tags
1 (0.8%)

Disable auto-formatting
68 (54.4%)

Other...
0 (0.0%)

ETA: The lack of security options as a choice in the poll was a total oversight *g*, I did totally think of that, and was of course going to include it.

Thank you.

Comments

[damanique]

I've got a HTC Desire with an LJ app on it... but I find what I really want the most is an app I can use to read entries, not write them. But I wonder if the LJ/DW API is suited for that at all.

Are you interested in developing a reading functionality in your LJ/DW app and not just posting?

If not, I might just make an LJ/DW reader app myself some time in the future. *is an Android dev* (albeit a very inactive one at the moment)

[exor674]

Reading entries is something I plan, probably not for the first released version however ( whenever that is, I really do hope to get something done by the end of the year but I have tons of other stuff going on )

I would have to fix the "get read page" function in the Dreamwidth protocol first, though -- and that's the main reason why I'm not working on reading at the moment.

( also, if you ever do make a reader of your own, feel free to use http://bitbucket.org/anall/ljclient-java as a base for your protocol handler -- I really hope to have that library be a good library for interfacing with as many different permutations of clone sites that exist )

[owl]

It would be good if the journal pages automatically forwarded to the light style in a mobile browser. I can do it myself of course, but it persists across the board.

The new LJ mobile site is full of fail, you have to click about ten times to read a comment thread.

[lovingboth]

This.

[platedlizard]

OMG this. When it's simpler and easier to use the main site then it is to use the mobile version, you know there's a problem.

[exor674]

If you would like to help test my client, please fill out the poll at http://espost.dreamwidth.org/585.html so I can have a more centralized list of what devices I have access to for testing. ( I'd especially like a tester or two who are Android devs, or at least know what adb logcat is )