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View submission: Updates to Community Page Design on Desktop
I'm really excited to see "filter by flair"! But a few issues...
1. Some of my flairs aren't showing up in the "filter by flair" widget. Not sure if that's a real bug or just something that's not ready yet.
2. It really should come with the means to filter by more than one. Or to filter flair OUT. I think it's MUCH more common that people want to hide posts of a certain flair rather than only see posts of a certain flair. Right now, I click on one flair and gets all posts of that flair, with no means to include any others. The functionality is there, as I can see by toying with the URL. At the very least, I'd like to see the option to click more than one to filter by. A better system would be to make it so that clicking one of the flair buttons will *hide* that flair. (and more than one can be hidden in this way)
3. We might be a niche usage of flair here, but I wish these ended up more flexible with how they filter and what filter options are included in the widget. We use these in several book series subreddits to filter posts by book. But we also encourage people to edit the flair text if they would like, in order to be more specific. It seems that `flair_name` will miss posts which had the text edited. Granted, filtering by the `flair` parameter type isn't perfect either, but it might be nice to at least have the option of choosing which is used? Even better if there's something more flexible. I'm sure other subreddits may fall into a similar boat.
Comment by Kamala_Metamorph at 31/05/2020 at 01:35 UTC
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Some of my flairs aren't showing up in the "filter by flair" widget.
u/mjmayank[1] , I love the flairs in my sub. I spent a long time categorizing hundreds (thousands?) of posts. I started with around 6-8 post flairs, and expanded as the need arose to distinguish between nuances, and we now have 18 different post flairs detailing different parts of the subreddit experience.
1: https://www.reddit.com/user/mjmayank/
And yet, only 4 flairs show up. Oh wait-- See more! Okay. Now I have 5. Woop. :-( That is a terrible experience and it is worse than not having them, because now everyone is miscategorizing their flair and not realizing that there are more than those few categories. They aren't the most important flairs--- they aren't even the most popular flairs. Not being able to edit this widget is a *terrible* design choice. It's been five months. Fix this.