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Actually it turned out to be a disaster. Unfortunately, the option in question has no discretion, and will hide posts from the overview of any instance at all. For example, I recently became unable to view posts in my own instance, and struggled for days trying to figure out what the issue was. Finally I thought back to this convo, reversed the setting, and now the problem is solved.
Therefore, when the Lemmy code is able to tag individual posts & comments as hidden, I reckon they ought to kill that option in user settings, as it can cause way more trouble than its worth IME.
@maegul@lemmy.ml
I'm not sure I understand what happened to you.
By this do you mean that a post is considered
Readand thereforeHiddenwhenever any one person has read the post?Well, not any one /random/ person, but you, the user! I.e., right now, it all depends on what posts YOU clicked on yourself. (if you clicked on them even once, now they're forever disappeared under that particular setting, see)
Now, this might be helpful when browsing a feed or stream, but when it comes to looking at single instances, can be very *unhelpful*.
For example (as said above)-- I have a tiny community (mostly of my own work), and because of that setting, can't even see what the posts are, now.
That is-- unless I turn the setting OFF, I can see *zero* content in my very own community, i.e. the one that I started. And of course, it messes up other instances which are merely in my 'favorite' streams. When I browse to them specifically in order to see what their latest content is, anything I viewed before then is now "missing."
It winds up being a terrible feature unless you purely view by stream, in other words.
@oatmilkmaid@evistre@possumpat.io
Yeah, like I said the Lemmy setting is ridiculously generous with what it considers read and how it hides things. Best way to circumvent this is just to use an app that’s has the option to hide read posts in-app and doesn’t use the Lemmy settings. I think Voyager (formerly wefwef) does it, maybe Memmy? Not sure about the Android applications. Connect probably
I hit the FV with Chrome/FF, so I guess I'm out of luck with that. Still, hiding content is such a powerful feature that I reckon it will be implemented soon enough.
It certainly wouldn't hurt if the RES devs got busy on Lemmy.