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Persistent Filters and Blacklists
On tumblr, one of the main things people install xKit for is blacklisting. They want to be able to filter out tags that they know they don't want to see. *(As an aside, if someone is building a browser extension to fix your site's faults, you should probably take that as a bad sign. xKit has put together a rapid response team to deal with site inadequacies and "updates" no one wants.)
The way filtering is setup on imzy communities is already a step ahead, because the tags are predefined. You don't need to come up with the 10 variations people might choose to use and bloack all of them. But to be really useful, it needs to go a step farther into a functional blacklisting feature.
Right now the filtering is only positive. Yes, This. That's cumbersome for exclusion, so there would need to be Not That, as well.
But additionally, that setting should be sticky for viewing the community AND affect the feed. If the point is that I never want to see X content, then the blacklisting has to extend to what shows up in my feed, given that that's the main way I'm probably viewing new posts. And it needs to persist between viewing sessions, until I go and change the blacklist myself.




The filter can be used to exclude as well. You can add as many tags as you want, so you can add all of them except the one you don't want to see, and then just leave that one off, and you'll see all the content except that.
I definitely like the idea of being able to set those preferences to be more permanent, but I'm not sure yet how much work that will take or where it'll end up fitting in the priorities with all the other features that have been requested. I'll add it to our list, though!
Right, but "add all but this" is more work than "remove this 1." It would function, sure. But you're having to turn the thought process around. Do you whitelist everything on the internet you like or blacklist the things you don't? I think most people blacklist.
And there may be instances where you'd mix them. So say your com has ficrecs, news items, gifs, fics, pairing1, pairing2, pairing3. You don't want to see pairing3 ever.
If you only have filters, you'd go and add: ficrec, fic, news, gifs, pairing1, pairing2. But now say you're trying to find that one pairing2 ficrec someone posted. In order to filter to that, you've got to go to your filters and remove: news, gifs, fic, pairing1. In order to narrow it down. And then put them back once you're done.
If you had a blacklist, the blacklist would contain pairing3. The filter section would be blank. To get to the thing you're looking for, you'd add two tags (ficrec, pairing2), and then clear the filter once you've found it.
It's simpler management, imo. Maybe others can chime in?
Yeah, I agree. I was just trying to tell you that there was at last a way to do it right now, so that you weren't left in a lurch. As I said, there's a long list of requests and a lot of priorities being juggled right now, so we can't get to everything immediately.
Cool beans. And I know. Just adding things to your ticket list... :)
I 100% agree with this, @Magess - looking forward to hearing from the Imzy team on this topic!