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  1. Ifk Fri 24 Jul 2026 10:43AM UTC

    Pietro Maximoff, a young man with white hair, sunglasses and a denim jacket over his shoulders

    You can use a site skin to hide works that have more than a certain amount of fandoms, or works that aren't complete. And you can also use a site skin to improve the cosmetics of the site. Site skins are connected to your account, and can apply to every device (but doesn't have to).

    Alternatively, you can use a userscript to let you save the filters between sessions. It requires an extension to run, but there are a few browsers on mobile that have extensions. Such as Firefox. You can find userscripts on Greasy Fork.

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    1. RemyJustice97 Fri 24 Jul 2026 10:46AM UTC

      Drawing of a white person with medium brown hair, glasses, and stubble on a purple background.

      I've literally just gone on a site skin shopping spree and discovered you can do some very exciting things with them! When I have a moment at my PC and it's not almost 4am for me, I'll delve a bit deeper. But thank you for the advice nevertheless!

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      1. Eli0t Fri 24 Jul 2026 02:27PM UTC

        Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from the TV show Shadowhunters pressing their foreheads together

        When it comes to hiding works based on tags with a site skin, sadly it works similar to muting a user so you usually still want to actually filter out the main things that you don't want in your search results (since they show up still, you just hid them from your view) it's super useful though for hiding triggers or less common tags that you always forget to filter out. (I actively make site skin tutorials for this kind of thing. Lmk if you ever need help!)

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      2. strawberryjei Sat 25 Jul 2026 10:59PM UTC

        I'm pretty much exclusively monolingual, which made it helpful to add in a blurb to the CSS section like

        .blurb:has(dd.language:not([lang="en"])) {
        display: none;
        }

        so i get all English fics in all of my searches without having to manually go in and filtering. I'd recommend fishing around Tumblr to see what little bits of of the site you can poke and prod at. Another favorite of mine is

        p.muted.notice {
        display: none;
        }

        to mute that banner reminding you that you have people blocked and where to go to find out who

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        1. Nightcandle Sun 26 Jul 2026 05:03PM UTC

          close-up of blooming evening primrose

          Ohhh that's interesting!
          Thank you for shaing these! ❤️

          Do you (or somene else reading this) know how I need to change the code to have

          two (or more) languages included?
          I played around a bit but didn't get it to work. 😞

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          1. NeoQwerty Mon 27 Jul 2026 10:51AM UTC

            Dood!

            Depends on if your browser supports multiple selectors or not (CanIUse lets you find out and even shows you edge cases, EXTREMELY useful for CSS development) but may I introduce you to Firefox's MDN document database, which generally tells you if the feature is normally available and how to use it: pseudo-class selector :has and pseudo-class selector :not.

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            1. Nightcandle Mon 27 Jul 2026 06:25PM UTC

              close-up of blooming evening primrose

              Thank you!
              I had hoped for a ready made code example 😉 as I don't have any CSS knowledge 😄, but especially the Firefox link is great! I've already bookmarked it and will have a deeper look into CSS once I have a bit of time on my hands.
              On the CanIUse site I found that I can use ":has()", but unfortunately not how.

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              1. NeoQwerty Tue 28 Jul 2026 09:00AM UTC

                Dood!

                Scroll down on the Mozilla site! They have examples lower down. (I don't use the selectors so I can't give you ready-made examples.)

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                1. Nightcandle Tue 28 Jul 2026 08:05PM UTC

                  close-up of blooming evening primrose

                  (I don't use the selectors so I can't give you ready-made examples.)

                  That's fine! 🙂
                  I only had a quick look yesterday and didn't spot an example that would immediately answer my question, but as I said I'll take a closer look as soon as I have some time to delve into it.
                  I'll probably spend quite a few hours on learning some CCS basics next weekend... 😄

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