Tag Filters Apply to Sub Filter Members, not to Individual Accounts

Follow-up on yesterday’s post. As I said then,

People with paid DW accounts can filter posts by tags

Tags: Show only content that is labeled with a certain tag or tags, or only content that is not labelled with a certain tag or tags (people sometimes refer to this as “blocking tags”).

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=76&q=filter

It actually didn’t take that long to apply my “no politics!” control to all my subscriptions–less than two hours. I’ll share what I learned (because writing detailed tech instructions occupies my entire brain).

Prerequisites

( 2 of them )

Applying tag filters

( 5 clicks for each )

What Surprised Me

The any/all/none controls apply to the current subscription filter list, not to the specific account. This confused me at first, but is ultimately more flexible. For now, I have created a “no politics” subscription filter list (which happens to be my Default). I can also create an “all politics” sub filter list, with the same tag choices for each account, and the entry tagged with value ANY.

I don’t understand the red “Saving in 5 seconds” message. I got antsy and clicked away before 5 seconds were up and it seemed like my choices were saved.