possible to hide some part of a post ? only the author can see it when check the edit history. have bbcode plug-in enabled, tried bbcode [hide] text [/hide], not supported. other workaround ? thanks

You can use comments. [comment]: <> (This is a comment, it will not be included) As html comment  I checked and the HTML comment is not rendered in cooked.

Not sure about hiding part of a post but depending on your usecase scenario, there is the whispers function. Also this plugin. [image] Discourse Private Replies Plugin Github: GitHub - communiteq/discourse-private-replies This plugin hides topic replies …

oh cool. I never thought of using HTML comments but of course that makes sense with edit history. :slight_smile: now I’m going to use that, thank Jay!

Do I miss something? An HTML comment is displayed in the raw view of the edit history. [image] So it doesn’t cover the “only the author can see it”, right? The history is visible either by staff only, or by everyone: Setting edit history visible to public: “Allow everyone to see previous versio…

[image] Lilly: I never thought of using HTML comments Right!? Me neither, but for kicks, I decided to [image] Markdown Comments For those who think it's easier to annoy you than to Google 'Markdown comments' themselves. And to my surprise, it was that…

thanks @pfaffman I worked around using [aname=...][/aname] :slight_smile:

Ok that was fun until Canapin ruined it with the obvious :laughing: I’m going to go drink more coffee and hide myself from posts.

As @Canapin pointed out, it’ll still be visible in edit history or by retrieving the raw post. If it’s good enough that it be hidden, you’re OK, but if you want it private, you’re out of luck.

Is there a way to hide some text in a post?

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fbpbdmin (deepblue) October 4, 2023, 5:27pm 10

that is true, that is good enough for my use case.

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