Saidit.net - New Feature: Sub muting on /all

submitted by magnora7 from self.SaidIt

Hey everyone, we're proud to announce saidit's newest feature: Sub muting!

Now you can go to /all and if you see a sub you don't like, you can remove it from your /all feed by clicking "mute sub" beneath the post. Once you do this, no posts from that sub will ever appear in your /all or /all/new feed.

This means you can see everything on saidit without having to wade through subs you have zero interest in. This has been a long-requested feature, and /u/d3rr put in a lot of work to build it for saidit, so thank you to d3rr!

Now that we have this sub muting feature, we recommend you set your user preferences so your home page is 'all' rather than 'subscribed' so that you don't miss anything on saidit. Enjoy!

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[–]magnora7[S] 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm changing my home page to 'all' because we have sub muting now. If you want to change your front page to 'all', click 'preferences' in the top-right. Then scroll down to 'content options' -> 'home page' and change it to 'all' instead of 'subscribed'.

To unmute subs, go here and read the instructions: https://saidit.net/subs/mine/muted/

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

IncelTears users will refuse to use this new feature lmao

[–]FormosaOolong 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Holy crap do you guys deliver! Thank you so much, this is fantastic!

[–]SierraKiloBravo 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Praise Thor! Cheers to the room full of monkeys feverishly coding in the back of the warehouse

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (23 children)

Already catering to the SJW snowflakes who can't stand to gaze a a glimpse of some content they don't personally enjoy... Honestly, you want this website to be different than the communism of reddit, youtube, twitch, twitter...just bring back the models that worked prior to the wOkE era of internet. When ALL meant all, subscribed meant shit I subbed to and nothing else recommended or curated in any other way and most importantly, when the most popular meant the shit most upvoted, watched, shared and etc... How fucking difficult is that?

[–]Jesus-Christ 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

A "glimpse". Yea bullshit, Ice Poseidon and Incel posts were literally taking up the entire /all which is annoying for those that don't care about that content. Impossible to find new content when people are making posts every hour obsessing over some dead streamer.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The s/all should ofcourse not be the most upvoted posts from all subs, but the very top upvoted from each sub. So, every sub would get a nice representation. If you want a SUBSCRIPTION page, then make one...But don't mislabel shit...That's already going down the path that reddit took...Users, mods or admins should not have a function at their disposal to ghost an entire sub...That is just plain old SJW. Ice Poseidon subreddit has seen quality memes over the years that I'm afraid this forum will never get to experience cos it's already showing the colors of infectious disease called pussification of Western world.

[–]Assfuck 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not dead though, contribute tot he cause, a donation link will be sent. I'm the real Ice, My body was transformed into a baby. I had to wait until my fingers worked sorry guys.

[–]felisc 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Literally giving the user any controls to filter content means they are sjw snowflakes? Why do you think we should even be allowed to subscribe to subs? Isn't you curating a list of subs you want to see a little snowflakey?

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Since when is the /all a subscription container???...Get ahold of yourself

[–]felisc 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't understand the difference between curating your /all feed and curating your feed of subscriptions, in terms of censorship or SJWness

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You seriously need to deprogram yourself then. Start by reading on the dictionary definitions of the words like "all" and "subscription".

[–]TheNorwegian7th 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

When ALL meant all, subscribed meant shit I subbed to and nothing else recommended or curated in any other way and most importantly, when the most popular meant the shit most upvoted, watched, shared and etc...

You can set that up on your account right now, there's even a batch unsubscribe button for recommended subs, instead you want to fight. Come on now...

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

No dude. I don't wanna fight, I'm perplexed by new generation of software engineers who are all about hiding content from others on the basis of melting snowflake syndrome. Just because you see that trend with the major players, does it seem automatically like a good idea....?! If it says all, then give it all because even the sorriest of subs can have the most interesting or controversial topics once in a while worth checking out....

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

This is an opt-in feature, nothing has changed on your All feed. One sub here has more users than the entire rest of the site.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Again, am I fucking speaking English here or what...Opt in, opt out, there should not be an option to ghost any sub following the sitewide rules on /all...Just the mere fact the devs made this sneaky indexing option at this point is a huge indicator of the course plotted for the entire site

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a fair criticism, aside from the sneaky part, I just hope you can see why we did this feature and why people were constantly asking for it.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

It's something the user chooses to do that applies only to them. If you don't want to use it, then don't! We're literally giving you more options, not less.

Your idea of each sub only having the top post is interesting if we had a separate page for that. But it's not good for /all, what about the large subs when they have multiple interesting posts that day? You want to just not show the second-most important post in the sub, just because it's in the same sub that day? Using your own logic, that seems like a bad idea, and that would apply to everyone instead of giving each user the choice to change their own /all feed

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Did I say only one top post per sub displayed...What I meant was only one top allowed in the top of scrollable and the rest shuffled according to time of posting...You know what the reddits algo looks like on this to avoid the most populated subs taking over. That is not an issue as much as when you introduce the option to HIDE CONTENT, and please don't claim it is only to be used as a end user option, like a block option because someone already said that you offered it to one of the subs mods and they ran with it. So, it's a CONTENT CURATING option which should NOT be available for anyone in this because it's a slippery slope of censorship and exactly what is wrong with internet these days. You are just modelling this shit because it is what the trend is today among the big social networks, but you have to know that they were taken over and forced into this existence by several diabolical entities which you have not yet even been exposed to, because Saidit is not popular yet.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

What would you do if your core userbase of 100 members started complaining because out of the blue 1000 users joined and completely took over the site? Specifically, if the new users made it so that you could no longer see or upvote any new posts from the pre-existing core community? You'd let them all leave for a properly balanced site because "free speech" and "democracy"?

That's the story of https://saidit.net/s/all/new and the opt-in sub muting feature.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I understand exactly what you are saying and that is as easy as putting maybe only 3 top posts from that sub to be available for indexing in the s/all....BUT ghosting it completely out of existence, that is silly and just opens up a can of ooh, we ghosted IP2 and no one complained, who is next, I hear s/whatever is politically incorrect these days, let's quarantine them as well... This is how Reddit started down the same path, they quarantined the politically incorrect subs and then one day just purged all... Also, I am here because I followed IP2, that is true, but I am not infected with fucking plague of some sort so you have to quarantine me from the site completely, that is bullshit. I want new people on IP2 from this site and vice versa

[–]felisc 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But everyone will be exposed to the posts from that sub (as well as all others), they'll only mute them if they decide to after they've seen posts from there

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Changing the /s/all algorithm would be way more contentious than the opt in mute we've added.

[–]useless_aether 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

suddenly i feel very discriminating

[–]mikipika 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you! Well done!

[–]bobbobbybob 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I love you

[–]black_hole_son 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

WINNER!

[–]One_Jack_Move 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks /u/d3rr!

[–]felisc 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you.