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

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 days 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.

    • yuman@programming.devOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      thanks for the reply. filtered is empty and the community is !die_reklame@feddit.org

      this is how it shows in the sidebar (subscribed). went through all options and nowhere is it listed as blocked/silenced/whatever.

      yes, clicking “show” reveals the post.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Ok, thanks. That red eye slash icon means it’s an instance-hidden community so there’s no workaround other than clicking the button to show the post. I’ve confirmed this is a bug in how instance-hidden communities are handled by the filtering options. It’s fixed in 1.5 but it’s not quite ready to release yet.

  • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Are there private communities in the fediverse? It might be that it’s set that you have to be invited/subscribed to be able to see it.

      • UlrikHD@programming.dev
        2·
        2 days ago

        c/die_reklame has been set to hidden by an admin due to being a community primarily driven by a bot, but it seems like it wasn’t added to the public hidden communities list. That’s our mistake, we will update the list to show it as hidden.

        Hiding communities isn’t something done by moderators, it’s something we do at an admin level according to our instance’s policy.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 days 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.