Hiding closed topics

Feature
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Hi,

is it possible to hide all closed topics?

Daniel

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Add ?status=open to your url

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With apologies for continuing a relatively old topic (the context is linked from the opening post above):

Please, what exactly does it do?

I imagine that including it within the URL will:

  • have no special effect when performed by someone at, for example, level 1
  • be effective when performed by, for example, an administrator
  • effectively open (not hide) a topic that is closed.
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It does not do that. Adding ?status=something to the URL simply changes the topics displayed to you. Removing it (or navigating around the site) will reset the view to default. In the case of ?status=open it will remove any closed topic from the current view, allowing you to see only open topics. Other useful statuses are ?status=closed, ?status=unlisted, and ?status=deleted, keeping in mind the latter two only work for site staff.

Try adding ?status=open to the URL of Meta. Notice that the pinned welcome topic no longer appears. If the pinned topic is already not at the top, try going to bug, switching to the latest view, and adding it there. You should notice that all closed topics disappear.

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Excellent, thank you.

It seems to me that:

  • where / defaults to Categories, /?status=unlisted is not effective
  • where / defaults to Categories, /latest?status=unlisted is effective

– and so on. I guess, that’s by design, where emphases are on categories, but if you suspect a bug please let me know; I’ll raise a topic in the appropriate category.

Thanks again.

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Those parameters only work on Latest (to my knowledge).

I do not think they were considered in the Categories and Latests view on the categories page.

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