You can now hide tags on this site

The page for each tag on this site now has a button to hide that tag, so if you don’t want to see me posting about Doctor Who you can visit that tag’s page and select to hide it. This will hide those posts entirely from the homepage list and elsewhere will collapse them with a button you can click if you want toggle the visibility of the individual post and another button to remove any tags that that post has from the hidden tags list. I’ve set it so that tags for adult topics are hidden by default.

This is done with a hundred and thirty-odd lines of Javascript and stores the tags one has hidden in one’s browser’s local storage and so will persist between visits on the same device but will not transfer to any other browser or computer and it doesn’t send any data to me.

By the way, tags are also included in the site’s Atom feed and some readers support blocking tags as well (I believe that Newsblur does), though other readers (like Feedbin) just ignore tags entirely and don’t even show them.