A user, Heather_Dudley, reported that when she mutes a category, it hides from the Categories list, but muting subcategories does not have the same effect. She suggested that subcategories should also disappear when muted, making the Categories page easier to navigate. sam agreed that this seems like a bug and asked kris.kotlarek to investigate a fix. After a fix was implemented, Heather_Dudley found that it worked on desktop but not on mobile. sam assured her that kris.kotlarek would resolve the issue. The bug was eventually fixed, and Heather_Dudley thanked kris.kotlarek for solving the issue.
If I mute a category, it (appropriately) hides it from the Categories list. I like this behavior (as do my users) because it lets users opt-out of uninteresting discussions.
Subcategories should behave the same way as categories do; disappear from the categories page when muted.
With a lot of users like ours, with very intense but varied interests, they have expressed a lot of desire to hide categories they aren’t interested in to make navigating the Categories page easier and less cluttered.
I also support the expected behavior of muting/watching a category muting/watching its subcategories unless specifically unmuted. See here and here.
Quick update! This is working great on desktop, but the fix didn’t seem to apply to mobile. Report from user:
Unfortunately, subcategory muting still shows all the subcategories on mobile view. Or at least it still does for me on my android phone in Chrome and Firefox mobile.
But all the subcategories I’ve muted still show for me on my mobile phone. :c
So unmuting the ‘regions’ category to show only my home region on the main forums page (while manually muting all other region subcategories) doesn’t work on mobile, which is where I spend about half my time on the site.
Hey Heather,
Thank you for telling us about that bug, it is fixed. NaNoWriMo is deployed to the latest version so mobile users should not see hidden categories anymore
