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what's going on here? I don't remember hiding any community and I'm def not finding any option to un-hide it

I'm using t.programming.dev, if it's important

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

TL;DR: I think it's a bug in how v1.4.41 handles admin-hidden communities. You should be able to just click the "Eye" button to reveal the post, but I doubt I'll fix it on the 1.4.41 version since 1.5 is close to release.


If you click the "eye" button to reveal it, what community is it?

Could be one of the following:

  1. You could have intentionally or unintentionally filtered the community in the Tesseract settings.
  2. It could be a bug for how it handles communities hidden by the admins

For the first, go to Settings -> Filtering and see if any are listed in the communities section.

For the latter, I'd need to know if the community is hidden by the admins to see if it is a bug in the way those are handled.

(I'm the Tesseract dev)


The current release version is pretty far behind the dev branch I use daily, and I've completely rewrote how those filters work, but I tried #1 on the old version and it shows a different message:

Which makes me think it must be a bug in how admin-hidden communities are handled. If you can let me know what community that is, and confirm if it's admin-hidden, that would be helpful.

As I said, I've completely re-written the way the filters work in v1.5 so I'll have to add a check so that hidden communities aren't set with the filter flag if you're subscribed to them (which I think is how the API handles it).


I just checked the filter processing code on the 1.5 dev branch, and it doesn't trigger on hidden communities at all, so if that is the case, it should be fixed in the upcoming version.

[–] UlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

https://programming.dev/c/britishtelly@feddit.uk is currently visible and not hidden.

However, as it seems to be a bot community, it should be hidden on our instance, so we will hide it and update https://legal.programming.dev/docs/hidden-communities to reflect that.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 24 minutes ago

So it is an admin-hidden community then? If so, that confirms the bug. Should be fixed in the upcoming v1.5. I doubt I'll release a hotfix for this since 1.5 is close to release and improves on 1.4.41 in just about every single way.

Clicking the "eye" button should reveal it to the user, though, like any other item they've filtered.