Disabled comments, and the front page.

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Mar 4 2008, 8:08 am
Any way we can get a setting so that we don't have to look at blog posts on the front page from certain users?

What I really want is a setting so that I can click it, and it'll remove all blog posts from the front page that have comments disabled. If I can't comment on it, I don't want to hear about it.
Jun 2 2008, 3:37 pm
So, is there any word on this? In the past week or two there have been so many stupid posts on the main page that essentially exist just to be stupid. It'd be nice to be able to block the freaking things.
Jun 3 2008, 3:12 am
In response to Popisfizzy
Re-reading this old post, which probably isn't that old but I can't be bothered to look at the date. A feature that should have been said would be to block certain users that you have no intention from reading. Cut them off MY front page to make room for stuff I might be interested in.

Then again, I know that the answer is just going to be to add the people I enjoy reading from to my favorite blogs list, that way I don't have to look on the front page.
Jun 4 2008, 1:43 pm
There's a sort of technical issue to this: if I'm correct, the front page is cached -- everyone sees the same page after it has been generated, and the page is only re-generated when a new post is made.

Adding a blacklist feature would force it to generate the page dynamically whenever anyone refreshes the page, which would probably spike the CPU usage considerably. I don't know if BYOND uses a VPS or an actual dedicated server, so that may or may not be a serious issue.


Thinking more on this, it might be possible to go across both roads. Algorithmically: Check to see if the user has a blacklist. If not, use the cached page. If so, generate a dynamic page for that user. However, it would still spike the CPU (and database) usage.