this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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You should ask admins to hide the community.
Why?
See my comments from the community request thread.
You would more or less freeze the subscriber count at 48 it the community got hidden. New people wouldn't see any content if they got a direct link to the community or to a post, unless they subscribed. And searching for the community also wouldn't work.
I meant hide it from local/all.
That's not possible in lemmy currently. It's either full hiding (so hiding from local/all, searches and the community unless they subscribe) or not hiding
Theoretically could be added in a pr though
That's not what I understood from dessalines@lemmy.ml comment here.
I thought this is possible now, although it may require setting this in the database directly.
You can set a community to local, which would close off the community to everyone other than programming.dev users, or you can set a community to hidden, which will hide the community for everyone. For hidden communities you need a direct link to discover the community, and you then need to subscribe to it to see any content, otherwise the community will empty. Like this:
We are taking about a feature that was (supposedly) implemented, but not exposed in the UI yet.