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In a rush? This article two sentences: Set a higher value on your tags weighting so they appear higher up your home feed.
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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! π
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.
Not a bad idea of βsee lessβ, 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!
I knew π
Hehe I did wonder if anyone heavily involved in DEV would not know about it π, kind of wanted Ben to turn up and go "when the hell did we add this?" π€£
If I remember correctly it was Ben that added the feature π .
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 π€£
I did not know this. Thank you :)
Not a problem at all, glad it isn't just me! :-)
wait, there is a home feed?? since when? π¨
I thought the home page was: dev.to/t/css/. Now I see strange articles about strange things. What the hell people are doing!!π±
Oh I am so thoughtless, I always forget to protect you from the scary world of "not CSS" and warn you!
To ensure you don't accidentally see something that isn't CSS I would suggest you follow every tag on the site, set CSS to +50 and set everything else to -50.
Then even if you accidentally hit the home feed you will be safe. ππ€£
There are only 1 or 2 tags that aren't CSS anyway, right?
1 or 2? TWO?? Don't scare Temani with such exaggerations!
There is only one tag that isn't CSS and it can't hurt you, it's ok! π€£
There is the HTML that is supposed to work with CSS (even if I don't see why .. CSS is enough) I am ok with it but I am discovering the others ... I will sugget to DEV to make all of them synonym of "other" or "non-css".
haha I can just see that, tags are "CSS" or "not CSS" - those are the only tags that matter. Perhaps we could add a third "evil" tag for SVG just to make sure you don't accidentally stumble across an article on SVG π
I knew about it for having reading it here
Changelog: Adjust the weights of tags you follow
Ben Halpern for The DEV Team γ» Nov 30 '18 γ» 2 min read
But even then it was really worth repeating because I didn't act on this article at that time. My timeline was ok-ish, now it's flooded with annoying articles on "42 THINGS EVERY REAL DEVELOPER MUST DO" and I hope my feed willl contain less of those now that I've unfollowed tags like #productivity
What you don't like listicles? they are awesome ππ€£π€£
Great job tracking the announcement down! I would imagine most people aren't aware as it was 2018 and DEV has grown an awful lot since then!
Plus it doesn't mention "anti follow" so I am guessing that is newer?