"Hide" The Sandbox

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hotcrystal0
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"Hide" The Sandbox

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This is another attempt of mine to encourage more academic discussion.
The idea is that on the main forums page, The Sandbox won't be visible. It'll still exist, just hidden from that page. The links viewforum.php?f=14 and viewforum.php?f=12 should still work as normal.
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x = 192, y = 53, rule = B3/S23
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Re: "Hide" The Sandbox

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viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6806 "How to Hide the Sandbox (discussion)"
viewtopic.php?p=198845#p198845 the problem with the idea
viewtopic.php?p=211391#p211391 related discussion

hotcrystal0 wrote: May 7th, 2025, 5:41 pm [...] The idea is that on the main forums page, The Sandbox won't be visible. It'll still exist, just hidden from that page. [...]
  • The Sandbox should be visible (and should exist).
  • The so-called "roleplay" threads shouldn't exist (and hence shouldn't be visible).
The Sandbox isn't for everything. It's part of the same forums.
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Re: "Hide" The Sandbox

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I was originally a Sandless user because I hardly want to engage with the Sandbox at all, but kept running into the problem of attempting to view important citations - praosylen's original p23 partial for example - being met with a permission error.

To fix this, rather than using the built-in user group, assuming you have uBlock Origin installed, you can instead apply this filter which hides it from the front page, while still allowing you to view individual posts via links:

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