Filters do not work

[PrivacyDragon]

I recently set up some filters in my Mastodon account, but Sengi does not seem to apply those filters.

[NicolasConstant]

Hi! Can you describe what actions you performed, what was the result and what was excepted?

[PrivacyDragon]

What I did

• Go to the settings in the standard web client of Mastodon (So just the website of the Masto sever.)
• Set a filter for the 'start' timeline and lists.

Expected behaviour

The filter should be applied in all clients. It is an account setting and not a client setting. So, for example: Tusky applies the filter and also lets you change them under 'account settings'.

What really happened

Sengi did not apply the filters. I still see everything.

[NicolasConstant]

Sengi provides it's own filters, so yes, other settings from other clients will not work.

I wasn't aware there was account's filters now (there wasn't when I developed the filters functionalities), I will have a look to it.

[ThatGeoGuy]

Yeah, even Sengi's own filters don't work. For example, I tried to filter monsterdon;#Monsterdon to filter out that specific hashtag, and it doesn't work for toots that end on that string.

Either way, it would be nice to be able to filter toots a bit better. Sengi does seem to have some edge case here, even if it's all built in filters and not Mastodon account filters.

[halnine]

Update, since this issue is rather old: the issue still exists.

[markwalkom]

I was having issues with this until I figured out the format;

term;anotherterm

So the semi-colon is the separator. It doesn't seem to like non-alphanumerics, like # or even ..

[FlitPix]

Adding new filters manually to Sengi is not ideal, especially when new relevant topics come about fairly often (game spoilers, etc). It also means I have to add all of my filters twice if I want to continue using Sengi as my daily driver.

[NicolasConstant]

server side filters will be available next release!