Old Reddit Curator

Filter /r/all with approve/block lists, word filters, user blocking, karma profiles, and reversible post sweeping

Old Reddit Filter Suite gives you a real editor for your old.reddit.com feed. Approve the subs you want, block the ones you don't, filter by word, mute users, sweep posts off the screen, and hide the karma-farm accounts — all of it reversible, all of it synced across your machines, and none of it touching your Reddit account. Everything here is local. The extension never posts, never votes, never blocks through Reddit's API, and never sends your lists anywhere except your own Chrome sync, or if you choose, your own Google Drive. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHERE IT WORKS old.reddit.com only. Approve and Block subreddit lists apply on /r/all and /r/popular — the big mixed feeds where you don't choose what shows up. Word filters, user blocking, post sweeping and karma profiles apply everywhere on old.reddit.com. ──────────────────────────────────────── THE LISTS ✓ Approved — subs you always want to see. Never hidden by a subreddit block. Switch the list off and it inverts into a discovery tool: your curated subs disappear and /r/all shows you only what you haven't already claimed. × Blocked — subs you never want to see on /r/all or /r/popular. Visiting the subreddit directly still works; this is about the feed, not a wall. Unclassified — not a list, a state. Anything you haven't filed anywhere simply is unclassified. Toggle it off to browse only your curated subs, or isolate it for pure discovery. Exact filter — whole-word, case-insensitive match on post titles and subreddit names. "game" matches "Game" but not "games". Aggressive filter — substring match anywhere. "game" also catches "games", "gameplay", "videogame". Blocked Users — the extension's own user list. Press and hold any username for about three-quarters of a second and a progress bar fills inside the link; release at the end and they're blocked. No Reddit API, no login required, and no 1,000-user cap. Their posts vanish from listings and their comments collapse the way Reddit's own blocking collapses them — expandable if you want to look. Hidden — posts you've swept away, kept in timestamped batches. Karma Blocker — named rules that hide posts from high-karma accounts. ──────────────────────────────────────── SWEEPING POSTS AWAY One click on the floating button hides every post that is fully on screen. Posts clipped by the top or bottom edge are spared, so you never lose something you hadn't read yet. Sweeps are local and completely reversible. Nothing touches Reddit's destructive hide API. Every sweep is kept as a timestamped batch: unhide any single batch, clear the whole Hidden list in one undoable action, unhide an individual post with its eye button, or just pause the extension to see everything again. Hides sync across your devices (newest 5,000), with tombstones so an unhide on one PC can't be resurrected by another. ──────────────────────────────────────── KARMA BLOCK PROFILES Karma profiles hide posts from accounts whose karma looks manufactured, and they're built in a seven-step wizard that asks one question per screen. For each kind of karma — post, comment, and total — you can set: • an absolute ceiling ("over 500,000 total karma"), or • an earning-speed rule on a karma-per-day scale, shown with its karma-per-year equivalent so the number means something, plus • a minimum-activation floor, so a two-day-old account with one viral post can't trip a pure ratio. A profile trips only when every condition you set matches, and you watch the rule assemble in plain English at the bottom of each screen. Free passes work the other way: if an account matches even one pass — karma under or over a value, or account age — that profile leaves them alone. The review screen spells out the finished rule and its consequences before you save. Any enabled profile that trips hides the post, so build several narrow profiles rather than one giant one. Author karma is read from Reddit's own public profile JSON, fetched politely at no more than one account per 350 ms and cached for a week. ──────────────────────────────────────── ISOLATION Every list has an ISO button. Isolate a list to see only what it is doing — only your blocked subs, only the posts a word filter catches, only what your karma profiles would hide. Combine several at once. Isolating a word filter highlights the matching words in the titles. It's the fastest way to audit a rule before you trust it. Karma isolation works even with karma blocking switched off, so you can see what a profile would catch before you turn it on. ──────────────────────────────────────── A ? ON EVERY CONTROL Every control in the app carries a small ?. Click one and you get a plain-language explanation, a working replica of that exact card, and a live demo of that exact function — real styles, real behaviour, no consequences. Type into the word-filter demo and watch the example posts disappear. Type karma numbers into the karma demo and see the verdict. Watch the two-PC sync animation resolve a conflict. There is nothing to read in advance. ──────────────────────────────────────── THE MENUS A floating button sits in the corner, draggable anywhere. Its top half sweeps the screen; its bottom half opens a popup with Open menu, Active, Inactive, and Disabled. The compact menu gives every list one row: an on/off switch, its name, a live count, a ?, an ISO button, and an add box that's always ready. Click any list title and it opens full-size — the complete scrolling list, search, sorting, undo/redo, clear-all, and drag-and-drop between compatible lists. All of this lives in a shadow root, so a subreddit's custom CSS cannot restyle it. The menus look the same on every sub. Three master states: Active filters normally. Inactive pauses filtering but greys out swept posts as a reminder of what you'd hidden. Disabled leaves the page completely untouched while keeping the menus reachable so you can switch back. ──────────────────────────────────────── UNDO, SORTING, SEARCH Every list has its own ↶ ↷ buttons — ↶ removes that list's newest entry, repeat to walk backwards, ↷ re-adds what you undid. Twenty-five actions deep. Every list keeps its own sort rule: alphabetical or chronological, either direction. The magnifier searches the full stored contents of every list at once, grouped by list, with per-hit removal. ──────────────────────────────────────── SYNC By default your lists ride Chrome's own sync storage, so any machine signed into the same Chrome profile gets them live, with no page reload. Merging is per-entry and timestamp-based, so two devices editing at once always converge, and deletes leave a tombstone for 180 days so a delete beats a stale add from a machine that was offline. Lists travel packed and compressed, which means large setups use well under half the 100 KB quota. If you outgrow it anyway, switch the backend to Google Drive: same data, same merge rules, stored in Drive's hidden app-data folder where it won't clutter your Drive. Sync can also be switched off entirely to keep each machine independent. Import/Export writes and reads a plain JSON file, with a merge-or-overwrite choice on import. ──────────────────────────────────────── ALSO • Endless scrolling, with new posts filtered and wired up as they arrive • Inline ✓, ×, and hide buttons on every post in /r/all and /r/popular • Approved and blocked subreddit links tinted green and red in the feed • A live readout of how much sync storage you're using ──────────────────────────────────────── PRIVACY No analytics. No telemetry. No remote code. Nothing is sent to the developer — there is no developer server. The extension makes exactly three kinds of network request: 1. Reddit's own public profile JSON, to read a post author's karma for the Karma Blocker 2. the next page of the listing you're already reading, for endless scrolling 3. Google Drive's app-data folder — only if you explicitly connect it, and only for your own list data Your lists never leave your own storage. Full privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/doubledingodevelopment/oldredditfiltersuite ──────────────────────────────────────── WHAT'S NEW IN 4.9 Changed The fade slider works in both directions now, and its middle means show all. Drag left and blocked posts fade — solid at the middle, a whisper near the end, gone from the page at the far left. Drag right and it turns around: everything still showing fades instead, up to the far right, where the only posts left are the ones your lists took down. It is a way to audit what you have blocked without unblocking any of it. Both directions behave identically — same fade, the subreddit name holding on longest so you can still tell what a faded post is, and the same click-the-whitespace peek to bring one post back into focus. Three checkpoints on the track: one at each end and one dead centre. The middle is lightly sticky, so show all is always easy to get back to; the ends need no help, since a drag that overshoots lands on them exactly. Press and hold in an expanded post's whitespace to hide it. With a preview open, holding on the empty background beside the image or around the text runs the same countdown as anywhere else on the post — red line through the title and all — and the preview folds shut as the post goes down. The content itself is untouched: images, video, embeds, links, buttons and paragraphs all still do their own jobs. Removed The hide / show text beside the slider. The slider says it now — its far-left checkpoint is what hide meant, one drag away. Fixed Reddit's media open button ignores the hold. The + / − toggle is the one thing you press to see more of a post, so it can no longer start a countdown or swallow your click; it opens and closes media instantly however long you hold it. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHAT'S NEW IN 4.8 Added Press and hold anywhere on a post to hide it — its whitespace or its title. A thick red line draws through the title as the roughly three-quarter-second countdown runs, then flashes green as the post goes. Everything inside the post keeps its own job: vote arrows, the button row, expandos, and the username, where a hold still blocks the author instead. Drag more than a few pixels and it stops, so selecting text in a post can never hide it. Hiding a post silences it. A video or audio playing in the post's preview stops the moment it hides, instead of playing on to the end. Plain post titles (Settings → Browsing, on by default). Subreddits dress their titles with emoji and with flair "tags" their own stylesheet paints in custom colours, borders, even images standing in for the words. Emoji are stripped from titles and tags alike, and every tag reads the same quiet way — a small grey chip — instead of each subreddit shouting in its own palette. The tag keeps its words. Big feeds only: the front page, /r/all, /r/popular and multireddits. Inside a subreddit or a thread, posts look exactly as that subreddit built them. A hide/show button beside the fade slider in the reddit header. It names the action it will take next, remembers the fade you were using, and glides back to it. Changed One fade slider replaces the two hiding styles. Blocking and Transparency are gone as named things: at 100% a hidden post leaves the page, at 99% and below it stays as a ghost in its slot at that fade. Dragging repaints live and carries to every open tab. Click a ghost to peek at it, click again to put it back. Peeking never changes what is hidden — a post you are peeking at is hidden the whole time. Hiding is always the hold. The floating button opens the menu on a single click, and reports one thing: green while filtering is running, red while it is not. The toolbar icon opens Settings directly. With images-in-comments on, the bare i.redd.it link disappears once its image actually loads. On Google Drive sync, your Hidden list reads the same on both computers. Post titles now travel with the IDs, so a post hidden on one machine shows its title and subreddit on the other, sorts by when you hid it, and turns up in search by name. On Chrome sync titles stay device-local, as before — Drive has no 100 KB ceiling, Chrome sync does. Titles are still never fetched back from Reddit. The synced payload is about a tenth smaller. Timestamps are rounded to the quarter hour on the wire while your own copy keeps exact times. Removed The third master state. The switch is on or off, nothing in between — and the two markings that only existed in the middle state went with it: swept posts no longer grey out, and blocked users' posts are no longer struck through. Asking "show me what would be hidden" is the fade slider's job now. Anything sitting in the old middle state comes back on, filtering. The inline eye button, and invisible whitespace hiding with it. Hiding is a deliberate press-and-hold with a visible countdown, so a stray click can never hide a post. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHAT'S NEW IN 4.5 Added - The Hidden list shows you what you hid. Titles and subreddits are captured the moment you hide a post, each entry has its own x to bring that one post back, and global search finds hidden posts by name. Titles stay on your device and are never fetched back from Reddit; posts hidden before 4.5 or on another device show their ID until you unhide them. - A small ? on filtered posts explains the hide — every condition that currently applies, not just the winning one: your own hide, a blocked subreddit, word filters (naming the words), a blocked or karma-tripping author, or the Approved/Unclassified toggles. After you unhide a post, the ? stays only while an active rule still claims it — so you can tell a hand-hidden post from a word-filter offender at a glance. - Images posted in comments can show inline (Settings > Browsing, off by default). Bare i.redd.it / preview.redd.it links grow the actual image beneath them, capped at 512px, still linking to the full file. Changed - Renamed to Old Reddit Curator. Same extension, same ID, same data — only the name changes. - Two hiding modes, in Settings > Browsing > Hiding style. Blocking (the default): hidden posts disappear from the page and the eye button hides them — exactly as before. Transparency: hidden posts stay in place as ghosts you fade with a 0–100% slider (adjustable by 1%); the subreddit name resists the fade so you can always tell whose ghost it is, thinning as the post thins and vanishing with it at 100%. Click any showing post's whitespace to hide it — a faint line between posts marks the click areas, and a dead zone around buttons stops near-miss hides — click a ghost to see it fully, and click again to re-ghost it. Ghosts stay fully interactive: links, votes and expandos work at any fade, and an opened media preview always shows solid. - A small button beside your username switches hiding modes in place, and the toolbar icon now takes you to /r/all with the manager already open. - Hidden posts are kept forever. The newest 2,000 sync between your devices; everything older stays in an unlimited archive on the device that hid it. Nothing is ever un-hidden to save space, and the Hidden count is a real running total again. - Works everywhere on old.reddit.com. Your front page, multireddits, and sort tabs now behave like /r/all — while a subreddit's own pages still deliberately show you everything. - Import/Export moved into Settings, beside that panel's close button. - The eye button sits to the right of Reddit's expand button, and the inline ✓ ✗ 👁 buttons are 20% larger. Removed - The "Purge legacy Neutral" button in Import/Export — leftover Neutral entries were already inert and clear themselves out over time. ────────────────────────────────────────