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Content control features (and is there a feature roadmap?)

I am wondering if it is planned to provide the user with methods to control the content they see, ie; filtering the topics in a group or comments in a topic based on various criteria including keywords.
I looked around to see if this has been asked, or if there was a roadmap document, but did not find anything. (this is no criticism, I do realize we are early in the dev cycle and I cannot image just one person being able to do all this!)

I do hope so. No matter how high the quality of the topics/comments there will always be things a user may not want to see.

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      HannibalAnthrope
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      I read the blog, announcement, the first message in my inbox, the mechanics, and I think that's it - but do you mean something else by documentation? I will certain read what's available, although...

      I read the blog, announcement, the first message in my inbox, the mechanics, and I think that's it - but do you mean something else by documentation? I will certain read what's available, although it won't help in this case as you've answered my question - and thank you for the reply!

      I like the vision for Tildes, and the desire for high-quality intelligent discourse.
      For me the most valuable capability is being able to control - to some degree - what I see, or more accurately, what I spend my time reading or scrolling past.
      I just read a thread discussing placement of the comment box being at the bottom of the page. And I won't lie it concerns me, because there was a post saying it was intentional and that the intent was to "encourage the user to read the posts and perhaps reply to one instead of posting a new top comment" (oops that should NOT be a quote, I am paraphrasing]. My personal view, for what it's worth, is that if it's not a gross violation of the rules, or just plain invalid data, that core functionality shouldn't be used to "encourage" users to behave the way the owner desires. I pointed out that there are a lot of reasons why reading every post isn't appropriate or necessary. But the underlying intent being hinted at certainly concerns me.

      Being forced to accept content and waste more time dealing with either chaff or even just stuff I'm not interested in.... is why I spend very little time on social sites, and after just two months, have already signed off Reddit (as RES filterReddit is not working and doesn't appear to be a priority).
      Not a big loss to the community LOL but having to work at finding something that interests me just isn't my thing.

      I would certainly welcome the opportunity to share my ideas with the Tildes devs at some point if this bubbles up near the top. I do have some ideas in mind, although I'm not sure they are in-line with the vision of the site. I shall continue lurking with enthusiasm and watching the site evolve!

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      1. Algernon_Asimov
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        You might be interested in these comments by Deimos: About how all design encourages certain types of behaviour and discourages other ones. About whether anyone will read your new top-level...

        My personal view, for what it's worth, is that if it's not a gross violation of the rules, or just plain invalid data, that core functionality shouldn't be used to "encourage" users to behave the way the owner desires. I pointed out that there are a lot of reasons why reading every post isn't appropriate or necessary. But the underlying intent being hinted at certainly concerns me.

        You might be interested in these comments by Deimos:

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      2. cfabbro
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        This is probably the most relevant bit of the documentation for what you're wondering about: https://docs.tildes.net/overall-goals#let-users-make-their-own-decisions-about-what-they-want-to-see...

        This is probably the most relevant bit of the documentation for what you're wondering about:
        https://docs.tildes.net/overall-goals#let-users-make-their-own-decisions-about-what-they-want-to-see

        And while I can't definitively say whether or not any features like precisely what you're looking for are going to be implemented, particularly with regards to comment filtering... there has been some discussion about extending the topic filter to be more robust:
        https://tildes.net/~tildes.official/37t/daily_tildes_discussion_more_filtering_options

        And if you're just generally curious where Tildes might be headed in the future I would suggest checking out the Tildes Gitlab issues page. The issues labeled with Feature are those that Deimos has decided for sure will be added to the site eventually:
        https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues?label_name%5B%5D=feature

        And those with Suggestion and Investigate are those that are possibilities but nothing has definitively been decided on yet:
        https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues?label_name%5B%5D=suggestion
        https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues?label_name%5B%5D=investigate

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  2. Algernon_Asimov
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    My work-in-progress "how to" guide for Tildes gets its first outing! You can filter topics from your feed: here are the instructions for doing so.

    My work-in-progress "how to" guide for Tildes gets its first outing!

    You can filter topics from your feed: here are the instructions for doing so.

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