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Discussion on: πŸ’‘ Quick Tips: Make your DEV.TO home feed better with "Anti-follow" Tag Weightings

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Go on, be honest, how many of you actually knew about the "anti-follow" bit. Maybe it is obvious (maybe it is even explained when you sign up....I am terrible at following onboarding stuff!) but I only stumbled across it a couple of weeks ago!

Now if they just introduced an "anti-listicles" feature, I would have the perfect home feed! πŸ˜‹

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mayankav

I did not know this. Thank you :)

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GrahamTheDev

Not a problem at all, glad it isn't just me! :-)

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Andrew Bone

I knew πŸ˜‰

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Hehe I did wonder if anyone heavily involved in DEV would not know about it πŸ˜‹, kind of wanted Ben to turn up and go "when the hell did we add this?" 🀣

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Andrew Bone

If I remember correctly it was Ben that added the feature πŸ˜….

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GrahamTheDev

That doesn't necessarily mean he remembers doing it!

I have loads of older projects where I go "this would be a good idea", go look at implementing it and I already added it 3 years ago 🀣

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Ben Sinclair • Edited

I knew - ish.
Last I'd heard, you couldn't set a negative value because the search query didn't work that way, but you could set a low (0.001) value and follow pretty much every other tag.
This seems like a good change, though making it controlled by a "see less of this tag" or even a "mute" button would be good progress.

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Not a bad idea of β€œsee less”, although being developers weightings work, perhaps as forem evolves they will change it to a scale of 1-5 and introduce your "see less" idea to make things less techy as different communities start using FOREM!