On LJ, friending is an atomic action. By friending someone you both subscribe to them and give them access to your protected content. While you can use filters to give access to only a subset of your friends, it's unwieldy to manage things that way.
DW has split friending into access and subscribe. You can subscribe to another user without giving them access to your locked content, and give access to a user without subscribing to them. You can still, of course, do both as well.
A side result of this split means that access filters and reading filters will be separate. You'll have 60 access filters and around 100 or so reading filters.
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Friends split into access and subscribe
Date: 2009-04-21 03:52 am (UTC)DW has split friending into access and subscribe. You can subscribe to another user without giving them access to your locked content, and give access to a user without subscribing to them. You can still, of course, do both as well.
A side result of this split means that access filters and reading filters will be separate. You'll have 60 access filters and around 100 or so reading filters.