Refine retweet handling

[davidmegginson]

This is a great extension—thanks!

I'm not sure if the Twitter HTML gives you enough to work with, but it would be great if "Hide retweets" didn't hide a post after I retweeted it. Understood that it might not be possible.

[oslego]

This is a great extension—thanks!

Glad you like it!

I'm not sure if the Twitter HTML gives you enough to work with, but it would be great if "Hide retweets" didn't hide a post after I retweeted it. Understood that it might not be possible.

That sounds like a nice improvement. You're right, Twitter makes it very difficult to manipulate the UI in this way.

Unhiding retweets from one's own account may not be feasible (the extension would have to know about the logged-in user, which I am hesitant to implement).

But I am pondering refining the "Hide retweets" option to permit either allowlists or blocklists.

For example:

• "Hide retweets from these accounts: account1, account2"
• "Hide all retweets except from these accounts: account1, account2"

If implemented, this could offer the option that retweets from your own account not be hidden.

[davidmegginson]

Thanks for the reply. That sounds like a reasonable choice: in fact, there are only a few accounts (besides mine) from which I want to see retweets, especially during the U.S. election season. :)

[davidmegginson]

(Feel free to close this issue if you'd prefer to open one for the feature you're considering.)

[Giszmo]

I'd like to bump this issue as it took me way too long to figure it out and imagine it's an issue for many users:

When I enjoyed a tweet, I often want to like, comment and retweet it but if I start with a retweet, it disappears in front of my eyes.

Maybe the extension can at least white-list the tweets I clicked retweet on by intercepting the retweet button? It would still hide retweets I did on a different device but at least it would fix this one issue.