I think conversation is already tending this way, but I wanted to toss it in explicitly: Requirement #6 is an absolute must for my (and I think a good wodge of other people's) use of this feature.
6)The project SHOULD implement the ability to easily select a journal to post TO when updating. The project SHOULD implement the ability to easily choose a journal to past AS when commenting on a journal.
That's not a should, that's a must. Management of journals is a vital aspect, yes, but the posting of entries and comments as any owned journal-identity with appropriate access is equally vital. In the RP/fic-journal case, what use is the whole thing if I can't post my RP/fic entries and comments without doing the log-out-log-in dance?
Additional thoughts:
I second some of the concerns about making shared journals an official measure. On the other hand, that might permit more transparency. I would be inclined to require some kind of marker for those, such as a different icon (like comms have a different icon than personal journals) and some indication on the Profile page. Not necessarily the usernames of the multiple owners (though I think that should be an option on the Edit Profile page) but at least some automatically generated note about "This is a shared journal". That done, let individuals decide what degree of security-risk they feel a shared journal is and whether they want to give it access. I do think a shared journal should be debarred from being made a Primary journal, and that would address a lot of the security concerns about the flow of information.
I kind of like the idea of a /read/all page as part of the default nav links on any journal designated as Primary. That seems to split the difference between "too overwhelming, do not want" and "yes, please, want a lot" reasonably well. As long as the /read/all page can be filtered same as the /read page, which seems to be the general consensus already.
Definitely think that having any "reply to comment" link or form from the inbox or a notification email default to the journal-identity that the comment was sent to would be really good. It would be especially sweet if the regular comment reply form on an entry made by a secondary identity defaulted to replying-as that secondary identity. So, if I open up the page of an entry in my secondary_me journal in order to reply to a comment, the reply form should default to replying-as the secondary_me identity without my having to select that (as long as I'm logged in as Primary, of course).
You know what would also be really sweet? A sidebar module for "all my identities", visible only to the owner (or more, as the owner decides). Kind of the way the content of the Tags module changes based on which entries one has access to, an Identities module should follow the privacy setting chosen by the owner (private, public, access-list or whatever these settings shake down as). Goodness knows, I've often done this the roundabout way by putting links to multiple journals into my link list, but that means that everyone can see it. A module that followed privacy settings would be infinitely cooler.
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6)The project SHOULD implement the ability to easily select a journal to post TO when updating. The project SHOULD implement the ability to easily choose a journal to past AS when commenting on a journal.
That's not a should, that's a must. Management of journals is a vital aspect, yes, but the posting of entries and comments as any owned journal-identity with appropriate access is equally vital. In the RP/fic-journal case, what use is the whole thing if I can't post my RP/fic entries and comments without doing the log-out-log-in dance?
Additional thoughts:
I second some of the concerns about making shared journals an official measure. On the other hand, that might permit more transparency. I would be inclined to require some kind of marker for those, such as a different icon (like comms have a different icon than personal journals) and some indication on the Profile page. Not necessarily the usernames of the multiple owners (though I think that should be an option on the Edit Profile page) but at least some automatically generated note about "This is a shared journal". That done, let individuals decide what degree of security-risk they feel a shared journal is and whether they want to give it access. I do think a shared journal should be debarred from being made a Primary journal, and that would address a lot of the security concerns about the flow of information.
I kind of like the idea of a /read/all page as part of the default nav links on any journal designated as Primary. That seems to split the difference between "too overwhelming, do not want" and "yes, please, want a lot" reasonably well. As long as the /read/all page can be filtered same as the /read page, which seems to be the general consensus already.
Definitely think that having any "reply to comment" link or form from the inbox or a notification email default to the journal-identity that the comment was sent to would be really good. It would be especially sweet if the regular comment reply form on an entry made by a secondary identity defaulted to replying-as that secondary identity. So, if I open up the page of an entry in my secondary_me journal in order to reply to a comment, the reply form should default to replying-as the secondary_me identity without my having to select that (as long as I'm logged in as Primary, of course).
You know what would also be really sweet? A sidebar module for "all my identities", visible only to the owner (or more, as the owner decides). Kind of the way the content of the Tags module changes based on which entries one has access to, an Identities module should follow the privacy setting chosen by the owner (private, public, access-list or whatever these settings shake down as). Goodness knows, I've often done this the roundabout way by putting links to multiple journals into my link list, but that means that everyone can see it. A module that followed privacy settings would be infinitely cooler.