Like the title says, I accidentally blocked someone. I tapped the three dots under someone’s post and then accidentally tapped again as “block user” fell under my thumb. This user doesn’t seem like someone I want to block, so I would like to unblock them. I found the “blocklist” under my profile, which says it lists blocked instances, communities and users; but (while I haven’t blocked any instances), I only see communities. That said, it’s not allowing me to scroll through the blocked list, so possibly the blocked user is lower in the list. If I navigate to the user in question, I see how to block them again, but no option to unblock them.

How do I find a blocked user and how do I unblock them? Thanks in advance.

  • morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 days ago

    Just going to use this thread to say it would be nice to have separate pages for the three block lists. I have blocked ~20 instances, ~1300 communities and ~800 users with this account. Navigating those lists can be unwieldy. Ideally they’d be in reverse chronological order, so I see my most recent block at the top.

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      Out of curiosity, if you don’t mind me asking, may I ask if there’s a common thread causing you to block those entities?

      I don’t disagree with the rest.

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        If a see a community and think “under no circumstances will I ever want to see a post that is posted here” and for users “under no circumstances will I ever care what this person has to say”

        Anything more specific is not ubiquitous.

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        For me, I blocked about a zillion communities before we had the ability to block instances. I did it so my main page wasn’t absolutely inundated with porn. But I didn’t want to disable all NSFW posts because I don’t mind seeing NSFW memes or topics.

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    I noticed that I can’t scroll through the blocklist if I start where the communities are listed (the red X in the picture). If I start on the left side (blue square), I can scroll without any issues. Does this work for you?

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      It does! Thank you!

      Unfortunately, this does not appear to include blocked users (unless I scrolled past them, but I don’t think I did).

      I really like Connect, it reminds me of RiF which was my favorite way to experience Reddit, but I think it needs some work. No disrespect to the developers.

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        Yeah, there should be a list of blocked users after the list of blocked communities. If I recall, I have had to swipe the app away and re-open it before I see updates to the blocklist.

        Do you at least see the section for blocked users?

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          Thank you for continuing to try.

          I don’t, but I haven’t blocked anyone else. Maybe one of the times I tapped “block user” it was actually “unblock” ever if the menu didn’t adjust.

          If I browse to the user, it works, but I’m not sure if that indicates whether they’re blocked.

          Thanks again.

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            The only thing you can do with blocked users is unblock them. It doesn’t even say unblock; you just click the username and it unblocks them. And yes, the blocked users list is the bottom of the three.