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if you don't want to see posts attached to a particular tag, you can now muffle those posts — hide them behind a warning until you click "show post". you can set tags to muffle in your user settings.

we said we were going to take this week off, but jess finished this change on friday and we didn't want to release it over a holiday weekend, so we decided to push it out to this week when at least we'd be available during normal business hours if something went wrong. seems to be working fine, though, so we'll see you next week!

fionn @6MY12/27/2022, 8:06 PM

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D @pinstripeowl12/27/2022, 7:09 PM

Oh this is very cool! Thank you for your work and hope you all get a proper rest

in tuft we trust @tit12/27/2022, 7:09 PM

neat! i suppose this only handles literal tags and not, say, typos? or people who accidentally type an extra # as well

colin @vogon12/27/2022, 7:16 PM

yep, unfortunately it won't do partial matches yet -- this is on our radar, though!

Phosphor [&]@bazelgeuse-apologist12/27/2022, 7:22 PM

Sweet, thank you for this change. :D

Will there also be an option to fully remove posts with certain tags from our view in the future instead of hiding them behind a warning, too?

colin @vogon12/27/2022, 7:25 PM

yup! that's also on the way.

megan ✨🪐☄️@comfortcreatures12/27/2022, 10:23 PM

Oh, awesome!! Y’all are amazing

a strange meadow @wowperfect12/27/2022, 7:29 PM

thanks! are we going to get these muffle/mute settings on a per-page basis at some point?

colin @vogon12/27/2022, 7:35 PM

yeah -- because each page can have multiple editors there's going to be some UI and technical stuff we need to figure out before that, but we have this planned.

a strange meadow @wowperfect12/27/2022, 7:37 PM

ohhhh I forgot about that, makes sense how that makes it more complicated

SnepShark @SnepShark12/27/2022, 7:29 PM

Oooh, very nice!

I left Cohost, see bio for details @AriaSalvatrice12/27/2022, 7:39 PM

Oh hell yeah, I wanted this so much so people can mute a topic i post a lot about but very few would want a proper CW about

Peace, Love & Pigs 🐗 Ciao!@kunekunehog12/27/2022, 7:41 PM

ahhh just what i needed to make this site truly cozy!! thanks!

Is it Shaker!?@EarthShaker12/27/2022, 8:28 PM

Yooooo, that whips. Thanks for the surprise new feature!

all-ice...?@vicky12/27/2022, 8:31 PM

oh heck yeah, that's a rad surprise, been waiting for this feature!!
btw is there a specific reason for the 'muffle' term over stuff like 'filter' or 'mute'? it's a cute-lookin' word, but im curious about the thinkin' behind it!

colin @vogon12/27/2022, 8:37 PM

since we use "silence" for "don't show me this at all", we wanted to have a word in between that and not doing anything -- and we were already using "filter" as the word for "do something to how a tag/content warning is displayed, not otherwise specified". @jkap pointed out that twitterrific calls a similar behavior "muffling" and so we kinda just rolled with that one.

all-ice...?@vicky12/29/2022, 1:17 AM

:yeah:

vegan btw @politepigeon12/27/2022, 8:34 PM

heck yes!! thank you, I've been wanting this! this is gonna make cohost even comfier for me.

belgianwaffle82 @belgianwaffle8212/27/2022, 8:49 PM

You are all amazing at what you do and how you handle this site, many new features I've seen other sites drag their feet on at every opportunity. Thank you so much for this update!

ian @VXXXLT12/27/2022, 9:01 PM

oooohh!!! thank you!

jess @jessfromonline12/27/2022, 9:34 PM

to be clear this is why i have been working on the It Is So Hard To Decide Whether To Show You A Post flowchart https://cohost.org/jessfromonline/post/696084-turns-out-that-flowc

KT @ministerpurpose12/27/2022, 9:34 PM

Loving this feature, thank you

Irenes (many)@ireneista12/27/2022, 9:36 PM

oh very nice! take care of yourselves

Joy @ahoyitsjoy12/27/2022, 9:48 PM

Thank you so much! This has been my most anticipated feature since I made an account!

cassandra rose @cass12/27/2022, 10:10 PM

thank GOD. love this

I wrote a book.@Ellipsismark12/28/2022, 1:31 AM

This is going save me from so many d6's of psychic damage. You have no idea. Thank you cohost. Thank for already being the best social media in the world.

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF12/28/2022, 1:35 AM

thank you for the tag muffins folks