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limited-audience posts

I'm planning to write misc techy blog posts here. I wish when I wrote stuff for a niche audience, I had some way of saying "if this post is not for you, you can filter out posts like these". When I write a post there's a "categories" input field, but I don't yet know what they're for, and I don't see an easy way to configure my ignored categories (maybe this is what channels are for? but I think people don't look at channels / know what they are by default). For the sake of experimentation, I added a "meta" category to this post.

For the time being I'm just going to post stuff and not worry about it, but I'd be interested to hear from people who have already solved this problem.

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Ben Weinstein-Raun
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Probably you don't want to do it this way, but in principle you could make a sub-user or even a group (i.e. a sub-user that auto-reshares things you tag it in) for this.

I do think you can use channels for this, by making a new channel that excludes the tags you don't want to see. I haven't tried it though.

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Ben Weinstein-Raun
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I just enabled a content filter addon called N.S.F.W. (with periods removed) that lets you collapse posts that trigger simple rules including words, tags, or regexes. Hoping the performance impact isn't massive.
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Ben Weinstein-Raun
Ben Weinstein-Raun
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This does seem to have made perf much worse for me, I'm going to disable it again :/
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Ben Millwood
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Yeah, I think a group is what I'd go for if people did complain it was noisy, but the drawback is that it's opt-in: people need to specifically follow the new thing if they want to see the posts.
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