This is seriously one of the best suggestions ever. I would love to be able to collapse things I've already read and don't need to see again, and I would LOVE to be able to collapse or remove certain things I don't want to see at all. And I'd definitely like for it to persist for at least a while as I click around (both the "until window closes" or the "24 hours" options sound fine to me). There's almost no point to it if you have to re-do it every time you load the page.
I do agree with the concerns about Javascript and how the functionality shouldn't slow anything down too much.
What would be even better is if there was one setting to collapse/expand an entry (so that something I had already read would only be shown by title, but I could still see if there were new comments I might want to check out and so on (so I am imagining that a collapsed entry would show title, poster, and comment count, rather like putting all the body behind a cut)) and also a way to totally remove an entry from showing up at all. I'm not sure exactly how that would work because I don't know the code, but it would basically tell the reading page to stop pulling that entry into the feed, the same way a filter can tell it to not pull content from a certain journal, and then it would completely disappear and never be there again and no longer count (so that there would still be 20 entries instead of 19). Maybe a little arrow for collapsing and an X for removing?
I also like the idea of being able to load the reading page with feeds and/or communities or whatnot already collapsed, and then expand them if you want.
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I do agree with the concerns about Javascript and how the functionality shouldn't slow anything down too much.
What would be even better is if there was one setting to collapse/expand an entry (so that something I had already read would only be shown by title, but I could still see if there were new comments I might want to check out and so on (so I am imagining that a collapsed entry would show title, poster, and comment count, rather like putting all the body behind a cut)) and also a way to totally remove an entry from showing up at all. I'm not sure exactly how that would work because I don't know the code, but it would basically tell the reading page to stop pulling that entry into the feed, the same way a filter can tell it to not pull content from a certain journal, and then it would completely disappear and never be there again and no longer count (so that there would still be 20 entries instead of 19). Maybe a little arrow for collapsing and an X for removing?
I also like the idea of being able to load the reading page with feeds and/or communities or whatnot already collapsed, and then expand them if you want.