Viewing old friends journals

[marikasbell]

Title
Viewing old friends journals

Short, concise description of the idea
I would like to easily be able to scroll back more than 2 weeks and view my friends list journals

Full description of the ideaI am frequently gone for more than 3 weeks and I find it very frustrating to have to navigate each friends journal rather than just click on something

Comments

[foxfirefey]

The drawback is the extra resources it requires.

[desh]

The two week limit was put in place over 5 years ago, if not at the very beginning of LJ. This was before six apart bought it, before memcached was invented, and before tons of servers were bought. Surely the resource equation has changed over the years?

I'm all for the original suggestion.

[imc]

The two week limit was put in place over 5 years ago

Indeed. Same with the ubiquitously annoying collapsing threads. On the other hand, there are about 20 times as many journals now as there were five years ago, so.

But as someone who frequently bangs against the 2-week limit I'd welcome a way to go back further than that, even if it goes to a day-by-day view like your journal does when you try to go back more than 75 400 entries.

[turlough]

I suspect that this would put too much strain on the servers but I would really like to see this feature!

[ex_uniquewo]

Same here. Maybe as a Paid feature?

[turlough]

I would love to see some more Paid-only features! (That is, if I decide to keep my account when the paid time expires in January. Yes, LJ's policy deciders, I'm looking at you!)

[ex_uniquewo]

I would like to see Paid users get a little more love too. I've got until April next year to decide if I care that much about icons. ;)

[mordyn4]

+1

[marikasbell]

It just seems to make sense that this would be an option. I mean, these are Journals we are talkimg about. And The great thing about Journals is that you can look into the past and see what you or your friends went through Not just 2 weeks ago! But, 2 months ago, 2 years ago!

I will be the first to admit that I am not by any means a computer savvy user. I have no idea how to install...anything! I am just pointing out that if this suggestion were an option, it seems like a very natural evolution of the Livejournal experience.

[pbristow]

I'll make the same comment here as to the previous suggestion, I think:

[NODS] Yep, this (and all other methods of accessing past entries) should work consistently, regardless of the age of the post. For the issues of cacheing and server load, all that's needed is to make calls to older data a lower *priority* than calls to what's recent, and/or store them on the older slower storage, bypassing the cache of newer, frequently accessed stuff. I think most folks would rather have a consistent interface that just gets a bit sluggish when it has to dig into the past, rather than having to jump through crazy hoops and in some cases access *extra* old data trying to search for the one thing they're looking for, just 'cos it's slipped past some arbitrary age limit.

[7rin]

Works fer me.

[lacey]

If this is possible, I would love to see it.