Hi team, once Gaurav's patch removing blog subcategories is in place,
and the simplifications this switch incurs realized, I'd like us to do
the same with our blogroll page--namely, remove sub-bookmarks (bookmark
folders) and incorporate blogitem ordering in its place. I imagine the
blogroll page will look closely similar to the (upcoming) category page
-- a straight list of top-level blogroll items and up-and-down arrows of
some sort to facilitate ordering of them. As part of this switch, we'll
be pulling out the "Import bookmarks via OPML" option, as few use OPML
and its value is greatly shrunk once we move from a tree to a list for
blogroll items. This change will also result in the bookmark table
being simplified from a hierarchical to a flat structure (i.e., no more
parent bookmark column), just as is being done with categories.
The blogroll page is primarily for novice and intermediate bloggers and
nearly all of them would be fine with a single-list of blogroll items,
as indeed virtually all blogrolls are formatted as lists anyway. The
handful of more advanced users looking into maintaining a tree of
blogroll links can still accomplish that via template modifications
(manually adding the HTML links into the side-column template), an
approach many would be taking even if trees continue to be supported in
the blogroll page. (I never use the blogroll page myself, I just
manually configure my blogroll links in the side column template anyway
along with the formatting I desire.) So I think this change will nicely
tighten up and further simplify the Roller code and UI, helping increase
its adoption, while not preventing blogroll trees for the relative few
wanting them.
WDYT?
Regards,
Glen
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