# Ability to hide topics?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [November 15, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872 "2013-11-15T02:37:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![carvecream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/carvecream/32/487337_2.png) [@carvecream](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/carvecream)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/1 "2013-11-15T02:37:35Z")

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Hi guys, @discourse  
is there a way to hide topics in the main topic list for a given category? I would like to hide the ones that are out of my interest zone or i’m otherwise not wanting to look at when I scroll through regularly.  
thanks

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**Author:** ![discourse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/discourse/32/21131_2.png) [@discourse](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/discourse)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/2 "2014-01-15T22:47:14Z")

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Yes this is covered in [this topic](http://discourse.mcneel.com/t/hiding-forum-categories/4651) and now complete. We can probably close this meta topic as a duplicate of that one.

Check your **user page, preferences, categories** – you can mark entire categories as watched, tracked, or muted.

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**Author:** ![carvecream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/carvecream/32/487337_2.png) [@carvecream](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/carvecream)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/3 "2014-01-16T17:18:04Z")

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hi Jeff, thanks for getting back. I don’t want to hide whole categories (I never understood why the user community here would want to hide whole categories), I just want to hide individual topics. For example someone posts about render mesh density in the Rhino for Windows category, and I’ve read all I want to read on that particular topic, I just want to hide that topic with a little click next to it.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![discourse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/discourse/32/21131_2.png) [@discourse](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/discourse)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/4 "2014-01-16T20:25:02Z")

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Ah, you can do that by using the notification button at the bottom of the  
topic. Set it to “muted.”

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**Author:** ![carvecream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/carvecream/32/487337_2.png) [@carvecream](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/carvecream)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/5 "2014-01-16T20:47:26Z")

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This does not hide the topic though, at least not for me. Is it supposed to hide it or just mute updates about it? I make this selection on a topic, go back to main list, hit refresh, topic is not hidden.

Also, if this is indeed the process for hiding topics, it would mean having to go through and open topics, scroll to bottom of posts and make this dropdown change. I thought perhaps there could be a better way.

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/6 "2014-01-21T08:27:20Z")

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> [@carvecream](#):
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> Is it supposed to hide it or just mute updates about it? I make this selection on a topic, go back to main list, hit refresh, topic is not hidden.

That is a fair point. @sam what do you think? Right now if you mute a category it disappears from the home page and /categories, does it not? Shouldn’t muting a topic do that as well for consistency?

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**Author:** ![wim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/wim/32/747482_2.png) [@wim](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/wim)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/7 "2014-01-21T12:49:57Z")

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> [@discourse](#):
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> Right now if you mute a category it disappears from the home page and /categories, does it not?

No, it doesn’t.

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**Author:** ![Peter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/peter/32/332817_2.png) [@Peter](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/ability-to-hide-topics/3872/8 "2014-01-21T13:06:01Z")

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Check this post it holds the I believe most recent news, Sam posted there a couple of days ago.

> [@Hiding forum categories](http://discourse.mcneel.com/t/hiding-forum-categories/4651/19):
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> Sorry, I will be adding that, hold tight till your next release cycle.