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TETENAL

TETENAL

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Please let me hide Hollywood gossip from the MacRumors front page. I'm not interested.

This used to be a tech site, but now it's full of articles about which actors are hired next for stupid TV shows or whatever.
 
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Good luck with that, you used to be able to hide individual forums. With the update that disappeared, only one I have seen get the old treatment is the garbage politics forum. You can opt out of that one now perhaps if you can get enough complaints about this issue they will get rid of that junk as well. Personally I would love to have the old system and get rid of all the forums I could care less about.
 
Ha, I must be using this site wrong. I don't even really see forum titles that I'm not looking for or that don't call out to me. Maybe I'd have liked to squash the options down back in the days of dialup modems and charges for connect time. Not any more. Why spend time arranging to hide stuff that doesn't even grab my attention when I'm scrolling past it.
 
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I completely agree. The news about TV shows and movies is going to turn me away from Mac Rumors. I'd love to be able to hide it or even better if it were all contained on another page.
 
I'm not talking about the forum. I don't even know where this kind of discussion goes to in the forum.

I'm talking about the front page of MacRumors.com. It looks like a celebrity gossip magazine right now. That stuff is drowning the tech news, and I fear it's going to get worse over time now that Apple believes it's a Hollywood studio.

That kind of articles I want to hide, because I will not be interested in it.
 
LizKat said:
Ha, I must be using this site wrong. I don't even really see forum titles that I'm not looking for or that don't call out to me. Maybe I'd have liked to squash the options down back in the days of dialup modems and charges for connect time. Not any more. Why spend time arranging to hide stuff that doesn't even grab my attention when I'm scrolling past it.
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Well said.

My aged (ageing?) and bespectacled yet sadly imperfect eyes have little trouble glazing over and gliding past (and filtering out) stuff that has never really grabbed my attention.

Background noise, and irrelevant pixels.

But, hardly worth the energy of a war dance, methinks.
 
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TETENAL said:
I'm not talking about the forum. I don't even know where this kind of discussion goes to in the forum.

I'm talking about the front page of MacRumors.com. It looks like a celebrity gossip magazine right now. That stuff is drowning the tech news, and I fear it's going to get worse over time now that Apple believes it's a Hollywood studio.

That kind of articles I want to hide, because I will not be interested in it.
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Well I think that's mostly because of the pre-launch period of Apple TV+, same as pre-launch of new iPhones or an OS/iOS.... and of course the fact that Apple is more about services than it used to be.

Personally I visit the front page at will during the day sometime but it's not my brower bookmark for the site. That's pegged to the Forums. Twitter sometimes sends me to the front page though, since I do follow MR on that platform.

I think there used to be a format on the MR front page where you had to click on on headline/preview area for the piece to expand or hit into its own page link. And iirc some people here wanted to be able to read the whole thing pre-expanded on page one.

Beauty in eye of beholder. Eternal dilemma of website owner/designer honchos.
 
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MacUser2525 said:
Good luck with that, you used to be able to hide individual forums. With the update that disappeared, only one I have seen get the old treatment is the garbage politics forum. You can opt out of that one now perhaps if you can get enough complaints about this issue they will get rid of that junk as well. Personally I would love to have the old system and get rid of all the forums I could care less about.
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You can ignore individual forums again
 
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TETENAL said:
Please let me hide Hollywood gossip from the MacRumors front page. I'm not interested.

This used to be a tech site, but now it's full of articles about which actors are hired next for stupid TV shows or whatever.
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Well, Apple is evolving or at least changing as a company, as it has before as well, so the news more or less follows (or leads) accordingly as well.
 
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It would be ideal if we could ignore certain tags, ignoring forums isn't enough if we still want to see the front page articles.

I agree with the sentiment, it's starting to feel like I'm opening a tabloid instead of a tech insider site.
 
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You can ignore individual forums again
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I am failing to see how it is done. If done where it says manage in this page it is useless in all three browsers I try it with, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. It gives single option to apply to all pages listed it the popup, nothing individual is listed. Unlike before where you had list of all them to pick and choose from.

 
MacUser2525 said:
I am failing to see how it is done. If done where it says manage in this page it is useless in all three browsers I try it with, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. It gives single option to apply to all pages listed it the popup, nothing individual is listed. Unlike before where you had list of all them to pick and choose from.

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go to the forum and click “ignore”

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Just tried it. Works fab, Arnold. I must have been doing something wrong on the older version of Xen we were running until last month. I don't quite recall the old vB days. I just went ahead and ignored a few areas of the forum I rarely wander into or whole heatedly want to ignore until 2021.
 
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go to the forum and click “ignore”

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And so it does now I just need to eliminate the ones I do not want one at a time. I am thinking I may have noticed that sooner if I actually used the site that way. Go to an individual forum at a time, but I always use the new posts option, there it only shows you the ignore thread options. Thanks for the information.
 
I do understand the OP’s point. There’s already an iOS blog and a Mac blog.

Why not make a Hollywood blog or something of the sort to separate all of the AppleTV news regarding deals with producers, actors, etc. from actual tech issues/interests.
 
TETENAL said:
Please let me hide Hollywood gossip from the MacRumors front page. I'm not interested.

This used to be a tech site, but now it's full of articles about which actors are hired next for stupid TV shows or whatever.
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I agree. It's been bugging me since the launch of the Apple Watch that there were so many articles about new watch bands and now so many articles about actors and producers. I realize MacRumors is about anything Apple related but I would guess the primary audience is mainly interested in the technology.

It has been irritating enough that I've sought out alternative sites now that maintain focus on the hardware and software news. That's a shame because I have been an avid reader of MacRumors for 12 years.
 
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