there was an ao3 update (sort of)

[cyberbrain]

It hasn't been properly announced yet (can I call it a shadow update?) but I noticed something when I was looking at someone's profile.

There are now user IDs listed on everyone's profiles (they seem to be the account number based on its time of creation). The IDs can be used to hide all of an author's works. It's a simple line of CSS that needs to be added to your skin:

li.user-IDNUMBERHERE {
display: none;}

All this does is hide the blurbs for the works everywhere (including in the author's works list in their profile...but not if you're looking at their dashboard, strangely. that's the only exception). This WON'T prevent the user from interacting with you but it's a way to save yourself from seeing (whatever the author is doing that you dislike).

This definitely would've saved my experience with my old fandom...it just really sucks when your OTP becomes a popular prior relationship for one of the characters and someone likes to continuously tag it in their works.

Welp, I hope this can be useful. Bye for now ^^

ETA: naye pointed out that the "li" can be skipped and an !important property can be added.

Also, if you want to block more than one person, there's no need to repeat that whole line, you can just add a comma and list the next user like so:
.user-ID1, .user-ID2 {display: none !important;}

ETA2: Further testing showed me that .user-ID {display: none;} doesn't work without the !important property, so do keep that. meanwhile li.user-ID {display: none;} appears to work both with and without !important.

Comments

[shipperslist]

Ah, much thank. *updates site skin*

[cyberbrain]

No prob. ^^ I hope it helps.

[satsuma]

I'd noticed user id's were visible now but I didn't realize it could be used to hide someones works! That's handy, ty

[cyberbrain]

No problem. If you try it out, can you tell me if it works for you? (Apparently it's not universal?)

[naye]

I've seen both this and .user-000 { display: none !important } and tried both, and neither works for me and I can't figure out why. Sadness.

[cyberbrain]

I just tried your way and it works for me also. I wonder what's wrong. You're sure you're updating the correct skin?

I only posted this because I hadn't seen anyone talk about it. Can you direct me to where you first saw it? I'd like to see what people are saying.

[naye]

I'll have to try again when I'm on my computer - I only have one skin that I've added a couple of lines of CSS to before, but maybe I'm just not doing it right.

Here's where I saw it: https://twitter.com/sarking/status/1372000625299501058?s=19

[cyberbrain]

Tell me how it goes. ^^ (My recommendation is to copy+paste the ID and test with someone whose work you know exactly where to find. In other words, block a friend to make sure it works, then swap to whoever you really want to block.)

Oh and I just remembered to add this to the post, if you want to block more than one person, there's no need to repeat that whole line over and over, you can just add a comma and list the next user to get:
.user-ID1, .user-ID2 {display: none !important;}

Thank you for that link!

[naye]

Ahh, thank you!! It works now - I think I forgot to click "Use"?? XD And it's super good to know you can just string them out. *goes digging for IDs*

[cyberbrain]

Yay, I'm happy it works now! ^^