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A post action button to hide posts
Lemmy does have "Show/Hide read posts" but there are posts that you don't want to engage with at all. So, could it be possible to add a button to hide them from the UI so they don't appear on return visit?
This will help user keep their front-page clean and might allow users to view more posts that interest them. As the clutter is be hidden.
May be a "Ignore" or "Hide" icon as a post action.
We don't have the concept of post hiding... but would a button that has Mark as read work?
I think that would work, Thanks! is there a section I can go to view the already read posts? I couldn't find it.
We'd need to add a MarkPostAsRead, similar to MarkCommentAsRead in the API.
Isn't 'mark post as read' a (wildly) different feature than 'hide post'?
To me, 'Mark post as read' implies that every post you click into, is going to disappear once you click out of it again. While a 'hide post'-feature sounds more like simply useful for hiding pinned posts.
Mostly semantics, but I believe it's important to use correct wording/terminology
To elaborate on what @krestenlaust said, I personally don't like hiding read posts. I enjoy going back to posts I have already read. I do, however, like to occasionally hide posts I have no interest in. This is why I'd like a "hide" feature. Definitely not the same as "marking as read" from my perspective.
I would prefer to have the hide feature have a time element to it. You choose the length of time you want to hide the post from a menu.
15 minutes 1 hour 6 hours 1 day 3 days 1 week 1 month Infinite
Maybe even have a custom option.
A similar concept could be applied to blocking accounts communities and instances.
What would the use of hiding a post with a timer be. This site is designed around the concept of posts decaying naturally. A post that is hidden in more than a day or so, would be gone anyway.
A post that is hidden in more than a day or so, would be gone anyway.
If you're only using the front page with default settings, perhaps. But there are smaller instances and communities where this would come in handy, especially in posts that stay active in the comments for months.
especially in posts that stay active in the comments for months.
What do you mean here, I don't think I understand. To expand on my other post, I consider it feature bloat to have a timer system as well, the way it is now.
We don't have the concept of post hiding... but would a button that has
Mark as readwork?
this does not really solve the problem
Let's say there is a post about cats, I'm not interested. So I hide this one for me. If now comments come to this cat post I don't see them in my timeline.
But if I mark the cat post as read, I still see all future comments.
From what I've seen on various posts and comments, this is a real pain point for a lot of users.
Personally, I like the action of voting on a post causes it to become hidden.
It should be optional though, not something that happens by default.
especially in posts that stay active in the comments for months.
What do you mean here, I don't think I understand. To expand on my other post, I consider it feature bloat to have a timer system as well, the way it is now.
People use Lemmy in different ways. The hot and active algorithms are not settled. The Top-Year, Top-all time, New, Old, New Comments sorting can all result in posts which are over a month old. Especially on lower volume niche communities. I don't know how you'd consider it bloat to let users use customize their experience with little to no UI costs.
Such a basic feature that would really help clean up my feed. As it is now, there are posts that stick on my feed for a week or more that I do not intend on ever viewing. That, combined with Lemmy's issue in taking you back to the correct spot when you click back from the article makes browsing a chore. Simply adding the ability to hide a post would make browsing lemmy much better. Automatic hiding of read posts is something different and does not fix the problem.
