there was an ao3 update (sort of)
Mar. 19th, 2021 06:54 pmIt 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:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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).
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.