Identifying users above messages..?

WooleyWool · December 10, 2020, 2:06am

Hi, I’m starting to see a lot more of this on top of users who are new or just spoke after two years or so. I am personally not a fan of it, I find it distracting while browsing the sea of replies with this when I just want to read replies. Is this a new thing or has this been there for a while? If it’s been there, does anyone know how to remove it? If it’s a new thing, why is this a thing? Also, anyone else experiencing this too?

posatta · December 10, 2020, 2:24am

There isn’t a way to remove it locally as far as I’m aware. It’s a Discourse setting, not a user setting. You can remove it with custom CSS via Stylus or something, but obviously that’s not ideal. Style to hide it:

.returning-user, .new-user {
	display: none;
}

Of course, this is a bit hacky, and it still leaves a blank gap. If it helps, it helps though, I guess.

Example of the gap:

Edit: Changed the rule to use display: none instead of visibility: hidden.

WooleyWool · December 10, 2020, 2:26am

Is this a regular thing? It seems to be new after getting promoted and I never saw it when I was a member.

sjr04 · December 10, 2020, 2:27am

With Discourse admins can actually configure who can see returning user notice tl (literal name of the setting), so if you only started seeing this when you got promoted to tl2, then it is likely that the setting is configured to only show for tl2+ users.

Edit: by default this is set to tl2, so it makes sense if it wasn’t configured at all.

posatta · December 10, 2020, 2:29am

I can’t view it on a TL0 account, so I guess that would be the case. I can’t see why that would be, though.

lexidogfur · December 10, 2020, 2:33am

According to the discourse announcement, this is how you’re supposed to hide it, and it might get rid of the gap too.

.post-notice {
  display: none;
}

posatta · December 10, 2020, 2:35am

I should’ve done display: none instead of visibility: hidden, which I’ve fixed, but I don’t think you want to hide all post notices. That also hides staff notices saying stuff like “Official response from Roblox staff”

lexidogfur · December 10, 2020, 2:38am

…oops. i forgot those existed.

.post-notice.new-user {
  display: none;
}

.post-notice.returning-user {
  display: none;
}

.post-notice.old {
  display: none;
}

The post also provides methods for only hiding some notices. new-user and returning-user are probably what you’re looking for.

edit just realised this is basically the same as what you were doing before, but the difference being the display: none and keeping the post notice prefix