Blorp dev here. Do you mean hide the image posts entirely, or just hide the image from the post? I’m in the process of rolling out an “Extra Compact” post view that renders the image posts without the images. But that won’t roll out to iOS and Android for a few days.
here’s my reasoning: lots of communities have interesting text/link posts, but are plagued with worthless meme posts. hiding image posts would instantly clear up 100% of that noise.
hiding the thumbnails isn’t good enough. I don’t want to see thread titles for the hilarious Anakin Skywalker four panel dead horse joke cluttering up half of my feed all the time. a lot of really interesting communities are like 50% meme slop, so it’s not insignificant. an anti-idiot filter would make a lot of communities infinitely more tolerable.
I don’t think I’m going to add this feature tbh, BUT
I’m currently collaborating with the Interstellar devs to design a very powerful filter engine for both our apps. This will let you load in one or multiple filter files for complex filtering within the app. The specification we designed would allow you to write a filter that says
IF post.thubnail.url has length > 0 THEN hide the post
You can combine that with other checks
AND post.community.name isinthis list
And the best part, these filters will be shareable with other users! You will be able to browse or optionally publish a filter you designed.
Instead of building a dozen niche features like this, we can ship one very powerful filter engine that can handle many use cases. How does that sound?
This is what the new extra compact posts look like. I can probably tune this a little more, but let me know what you think. That’s currently in beta. Idk if you’re using Google Play, but if you are, you can join the beta for immediate access.
The filter system I described will take more time to implement. Probably a few months, but it’s going to unlock filtering that no other Lemmy/PieFed client currently supports
Blorp dev here. Do you mean hide the image posts entirely, or just hide the image from the post? I’m in the process of rolling out an “Extra Compact” post view that renders the image posts without the images. But that won’t roll out to iOS and Android for a few days.
I want to hide the image posts entirely.
here’s my reasoning: lots of communities have interesting text/link posts, but are plagued with worthless meme posts. hiding image posts would instantly clear up 100% of that noise.
hiding the thumbnails isn’t good enough. I don’t want to see thread titles for the hilarious Anakin Skywalker four panel dead horse joke cluttering up half of my feed all the time. a lot of really interesting communities are like 50% meme slop, so it’s not insignificant. an anti-idiot filter would make a lot of communities infinitely more tolerable.
I don’t think I’m going to add this feature tbh, BUT
I’m currently collaborating with the Interstellar devs to design a very powerful filter engine for both our apps. This will let you load in one or multiple filter files for complex filtering within the app. The specification we designed would allow you to write a filter that says
IF post.thubnail.url has length > 0 THEN hide the postYou can combine that with other checks
AND post.community.name is in this listAnd the best part, these filters will be shareable with other users! You will be able to browse or optionally publish a filter you designed.
Instead of building a dozen niche features like this, we can ship one very powerful filter engine that can handle many use cases. How does that sound?
yeah that sounds pretty good.
is there any way to get a super compact clean feed
like this?
The filter system I described will take more time to implement. Probably a few months, but it’s going to unlock filtering that no other Lemmy/PieFed client currently supports