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FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 07:23:47

Hello all
A few days ago I hid the 'Royal Chat' thread, and the 'Lilibet' thread.

Yesterday I un-hid them and posted on the former, in fact I have just posted on it.

However - I can't see it in the Active list, or in the Trending list confused

They seem to have hidden themselves, but they aren't on my Hidden Thread list either!

Can everyone else see them?
Can you please comment below to say if you can / cannot see the two Royal threads mentioned?
Thank you!

BlueBelle Thu 10-Jun-21 09:06:08

It's clunky and frustrating to have to switch to the mobile site to do all that
BUT
If you use the mobile site you have to do all the clunky stuff but in reverse

FannyCornforth Thu 10-Jun-21 09:02:45

Oh glad that it made sense and worked! Thank you for letting me know ixion
Loving the word 'irksome', it's going to be my word of the day smile

ixion Thu 10-Jun-21 08:32:47

FannyCornforth

Ixion - I know how to do it on the mobile site
Where it says 'forums - games' or whatever - click on 'games' and your options will open.
Click on 'customise' and then scroll down.
Your hidden threads should be listed and then you can unhide them

I hope that this makes sense and that it works!

Thank you FannyCornforth.

As I said, I couldn't see your response of 09.47 yesterday until I caught it appearing on 'Trending' as it was nowhere else to be seen?.
I then spent the rest of the evening investigating and experimenting as per your instructions and am now thrilled to say that I am pitch perfect!

It's clunky and frustrating to have to switch to the mobile site to do all that, but the good side is that you can click on any old thread to bring up the 'customise' option and all your previously 'hiddens' (mostly games for me and a couple of 'irksome' -to me!- threads) are displayed. You don't have to try to remember which forum the hidden thread might be in!

This has been a tremendous help and removes so much frustration for me.
Many thanks indeed!

Callistemon Wed 09-Jun-21 22:21:42

Chestnut

Sonia - I can't see a red arrow to hide a thread. I'm on a computer and this is what I see. How can I hide a thread?

You're on the desktop site, Chestnut
I prefer that too, can't stand the mobile site.

We're just old-fashioned I think ?

Now, off to do a thread search

BlueBelle Wed 09-Jun-21 22:18:12

So how come as fast as I hide the games threads on the mobile ( as discussed previously) the next day they are back again
I ve Lilibet on my active list but I expect the other royal one has fallen off the top 50 threads

lemsip Wed 09-Jun-21 22:10:13

I couldn't find it on my laptop so went to my history looked at yesterday and found it that way so it's still there

Izabella Wed 09-Jun-21 11:13:31

We thought it was us. CH (IT consultant) says there is no way I can hide these pesky games and that the site has perhaps not been tested across all platforms.

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 10:35:23

Chestnut I looked on the computer site (see what I do for you!) and no, I couldn't see a way either.
I do much prefer the mobile site - far fewer ads to start with

Chestnut Wed 09-Jun-21 10:31:11

Fanny, it doesn't make sense if you're on a computer. I wonder if I accessed the site on a mobile and made the changes whether they would then show up on the computer? It seems the mobile site has features which are not available on a computer.

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 09:47:38

Ixion - I know how to do it on the mobile site
Where it says 'forums - games' or whatever - click on 'games' and your options will open.
Click on 'customise' and then scroll down.
Your hidden threads should be listed and then you can unhide them

I hope that this makes sense and that it works!

ixion Wed 09-Jun-21 09:43:15

Ah.
Having responded above, I cannot now add this to my watch list since I accessed the (hidden) thread via the trending list.

Farewell, dear thread!

ixion Wed 09-Jun-21 09:39:34

I have made the point before that, having chosen to 'hide' a thread, I can't ever access it again.

For example, I hid this thread yesterday.
It no longer appears on any of the following - active, last hour, last day, forums.

The only way I could re-join this thread, it seems, is by either+
*waiting for it to emerge under 'trending' (as now)
*contributing before I hide
*add to watch list before I hide.

Otherwise it is lost, to me, for perpetuity.
Can Soniagransnet please advise?
Thank you!

Chestnut Wed 09-Jun-21 09:37:34

Sonia - I can't see a red arrow to hide a thread. I'm on a computer and this is what I see. How can I hide a thread?

JackyB Wed 09-Jun-21 09:31:13

This happened to me recently, too. I think I posted about it. I double-checked the time I had posted and the time of the last post on the thread at the bottom of the Active list and although I had posted far more recently, it definitely did not appear.

I found it in "I'm on".

Only when I posted a second time did it appear in "Active".

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 09:03:39

Thank you for getting in touch Sonia

But I was posting in the Royal Chat thread and it was definitely not showing up in Active or Trending when it should have been at the top of the list (as in the having the most recent post on it)

Something was definitely 'going on'

Soniagransnet (GNHQ) Wed 09-Jun-21 08:59:46

Hi - just dropping in to say that 'Active' will show the last 50. If you click on the 'last hour' section, you can see the threads that are popular within the last hour - this will keep changing but no threads are being 'hidden' by GNHQ!

We hope that puts your mind at rest. Please give us a shout if you need any more help with anything. flowers

nanna8 Wed 09-Jun-21 08:49:29

I thought maybe they’d been banned and censored by MI6 as anti government or something!

tanith Wed 09-Jun-21 08:45:07

They are back on the active thread now.

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 08:45:04

Both threads are back on full show now. Strange

Lucca Wed 09-Jun-21 08:37:42

Lila et thread is on “last day”

Blinko Wed 09-Jun-21 08:37:35

FannyCornforth

Blinko on the mobile site, the little arrow is just below your Inbox

Thanks. It must come up differently depending which device you're using. I'm on the pc and there's nothing like that. Heaven knows why, and given GN reluctance to investigate or change anything tech-related, it will probably remain a mystery.

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 08:21:49

Blinko on the mobile site, the little arrow is just below your Inbox

Blinko Wed 09-Jun-21 08:16:04

Aldom

To Hide a thread click on the v in the red circle, top right corner of the page. Select hide this thread.

Can't see a v in a red circle anywhere... I would love to hide the wretched Games threads..

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 08:11:12

shysal try hiding them

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Jun-21 08:09:33

Thank you Riverwalk (oops!)