As a follow up to our previous announcement post, we have now set up a page to display every community that is hidden for our local users.

As explained on that page:

Programming.dev will hide political communities, NSFW/pornographic communities and communities that have a majority of their content produced by bots. While a community is hidden, it and its posts and comments will not show up in post feeds or in the search results unless you have explicitly subscribed to it. Communities themselves currently do not show up in community search results, this may change in the future; see #2943.

Users can subscribe to a hidden community to remove the hidden effect status of a community, however it can be difficult for a user to find out which communities are due to them not being searchable.

  • Die4Ever
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Communities themselves currently do not show up in community search results, this may change in the future; see #2943.

    The linked issue was just closed as not planned. Maybe some comments in there could explain how we all want these features to work? The current solution seems a little suboptimal. Maybe hidden communities in search results should have an icon to show they’re hidden.

  • Zink
    1·
    5 hours ago

    This seems like an excellent way to handle things, especially now with the list that makes it easy to customize that we each see.

    Thanks!

  • andioopEnglish
    11·
    5 hours ago

    Users can subscribe to a hidden community to remove the hidden effect status of a community

    So if a user subscribes to a hidden community, it will not be hidden for them anymore. But will it be unhidden for everyone else too? Would it start showing up in local feeds?

    • UlrikHDOPA
      1·
      4 hours ago

      It’s perhaps poorly phrased, no it will only affect that specific user.