# Improvement to "ignored" feature

**URL:** <https://community.nomadgate.com/t/improvement-to-ignored-feature/72484>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/improvement-to-ignored-feature/72484 "2025-07-07T10:46:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gwytb](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gwytb](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/gwytb)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/improvement-to-ignored-feature/72484/1 "2025-07-07T10:46:54Z")

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I have permanently ignored a few members of the community. Certain of these posters have been quite prolific with their belligerent posts lately. Ideally I wouldn’t even notice–aside from seeing the other half of the back-and-forth, from the people they’re hectoring, which I can live with. Alas, the count of unread messages includes unread-but-ignored messages. I must reveal those messages and scroll around a bit to clear the pending messages indicator.

@tkrunning How difficult would it be to exclude ignored messages from the unread-messages count?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![tkrunning](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/tkrunning/32/9053_2.png) [@tkrunning](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tkrunning)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/improvement-to-ignored-feature/72484/2 "2025-07-07T10:53:15Z")

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Not very easy, I think.

This is the most similar request I could find on Discourse Meta (the home of this forum software):

> **[Suggested Unread Topics showing Ignored Users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggested-unread-topics-showing-ignored-users/282892/)**
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> Hello Discoursians! Long time user, first time bug reporter. I’ve recently “Ignored” (soft blocked?) a few annoying users on my home instance. Now their replies are auto-hidden. Yay! 🥳 Unfortunately, this has meant that when I read a topic...

Doesn’t seem like anything got implemented to improve the current behavior, unfortunately. And also not something I’m able to implement on my own either.

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**Author:** ![gwytb](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gwytb](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/gwytb)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 11:06am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/improvement-to-ignored-feature/72484/3 "2025-07-07T11:06:02Z")

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Ahh yes, same request, same motivation. Apparently it didn’t make the cut for implementation.

I had a quick glance at the source code. It doesn’t look like a trivial one-liner change to fix this.

Thank you for checking on it!