quick tip: removing unwanted network entries

[kaigou]

I don't actually mind the Network page all that much, although I do find it annoying that there's no explanation anywhere about what it is or does, which would have been a nice thing to have instead of just feeling like it got sprung on me. Regardless, one thing I intensely dislike about it are the feeds. If I want a feed, I'll subscribe to it, but opting me in when the majority of the feeds come without cuts, are often image-heavy, and worst of all may have duplicates... well, that's just annoying. I considered making a suggestion that we have the option to ignore or remove the feeds, and then I realized, why bother?

In the admin/backend:
1. Click on Organize.
2. Click on Customize Style.
3. In the box in the middle of the page, click on Custom CSS.
4. Enter this line into the big box in the middle. (If your style already has a bunch in there, scroll to the bottom of the lines and add this at the very end.)

.page-network .journal-type-Y
{display:none;}

Just cut and paste those two lines.
5. Click save.
6. Check your network page. It should be all communities and individual posts now, and no feeds.

If you want to get rid of community posts as well, use these lines instead:

.page-network .journal-type-Y,
.page-network .journal-type-C
{display:none;}

Click save when you're done, and now your Network page is less crammed.

One note: this simply removes the posts that you would've seen, so if you have it set up to see 20 posts, per page, on a reading page, and 15 of the Network posts were journal-type-Y (RSS feeds), then your reading page will only display the remaining 5 non-feed posts. Wait a few minutes and as more posts come through on the Network pipeline, this will change, but in general, unless the Network pipeline is momentarily feed-free, you will never see all 20 posts. You'll see whatever's left over after the feeds are subtracted.

Comments

[branchandroot]

You never used the friends-friends page on LJ? That's what Network is--a collection of the journals your reading list reads. So, yes, it shows any feeds that someone on your reading list has subscribed to. It doesn't affect any of your subscriptions at all.

[kaigou]

I didn't say it affected subscriptions, nor was I under that impression. I just find the feeds annoying (or most annoying, although many of the comms are as well, especially when we get into the issue of xposting, bloody hell). If I want to read some of those feeds, I'd subscribe to them myself, and even the off-chance of reading some of them are reason enough to delete the network option and never even consider it again. Failing that, a workaround to turn off the feeds seemed the best compromise.