We all have a blog view, which is like our own Front Page. We also have a list view of our diaries, in table form. The list view can be nice when you are digging around trying to find interesting stuff.
The list view won't be anyone's prime way to dig around the site. But it can be useful from time to time, when you are digging into a specific author or group.
List View, History View, Diary History: these are different names for the same thing. It's a table of diaries by an author, with sortable columns.
Your Own List View
You can get to your own diary history by clicking. To get there, click My Page, then My Diaries, then List View:
Someone Else's List View
To get to someone else's diary history, you must type in the url, of the form
www.dailykos.com/user/Username/history
Like so:
At the resulting diary list view, you can sort the various columns. Click the arrows on the column headers to do it. The arrow for the active sort will be orange. The others will be gray. Clicking the orange active arrow a second time reverses the direction. By default, the diaries are sorted by publication date, most recent first.
Sorted by recs:
Sorted by page views. The numbers are those since DK4 launch:
Sorted by title:
Sorted by bookmarks:
Sorting by bookmarks is a very good way to find "best of" an author, to pull up worthwhile diaries that might have escaped views and recs.
And the ever popular view, diaries by an author, sorted by author:
List View for Groups
Groups have a list view. It will list diaries, either published or republished by the group. You can get to it the same way you get to a user list view, by typing in the url:
www.dailykos.com/user/Groupname/history
Some list views for groups:
The List View, for Groups You Are In
You can click to get to your own list view. You have to type in the url to see other people's. It works the same way for groups. From group pages, where you are a member, you can click to get to it:
List View as a Site Improvement
You have to type in the url to get to other people's list view. You can't click to navigate to it. The list view will be made more easily available at some point:
We will roll out
a "blog" vs "list" view option in the sometime future. You'll be able to choose which way to view stuff. You can see far more diary headlines with list view, but I get that some people prefer to get that opening paragraph.
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KosBusters! is a group of DK4 beta testers who decided to continue bug hunting and feature testing now that DK4 is the official platform of Daily Kos.
In addition to locating bugs and testing newly released features, we plan to post informational diaries—such as this one—to aid everyone in using and navigating the site. If you have any questions, we are happy to answer them as best we know how. We are not currently accepting new members.
Previously, from KosBusters: