I have two ways to supposedly “clear read” posts when viewing a community, however doing so has no effect. I’ve got the app set up to hide read posts, so clearing read posts should let me see the ones that were previously hidden but that does not happen. My only way to see those posts now is to open the community in a web browser.
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posts are being hidden?
It’s a setting you can turn on where it doesn’t show posts you’ve already read
you said it shows you posts that were previously hidden. what’s being hidden
No, I didn’t say that. I’m unsure where the confusion arises so I’ll start from the beginning. And try to clarify my problem.
- There’s a setting that makes it so posts you’ve already read are automatically hidden. I have this turned on.
- There’s a setting that makes it so posts get marked as read when you scroll past them. I have this turned on as well.
- There’s an option in the drop-down when viewing communities that says “clear read”. This button doesn’t seem to do anything.
Let’s take a specific community, doctor who @ lemmy.world. This community is the main reason I’m having a problem, because usually I’ll see a post on my feed from there before I watch an episode, so I want to read it later, but when I scroll past the post it gets marked as read. Now once I’ve gone and watched the episode, I’d like to go back to the community to read the post I skipped before. Of course that post is hidden, because it got marked as read when I scrolled past it. That’s when the button from point 3 seems like it should allow me to unhide the post, but it doesn’t work. I can verify that the post does still exist if I just visit that community in a web browser instead of in boost.
is the only part I’m confused aboutIs it still confusing after my new explanation? The posts are hidden because they’re marked as read for me, and I’m trying to clear the read posts for a community so they won’t be hidden anymore.