Im assuming you are the same person who asked on r/AO3 the other day and I got it wrong and answered about muting a series on accident? I still don't know the answer 😅. Try to reach out to support at the form at the bottom of any AO3 page at the link labeled "Technical Support & Feedback"
Ah yeah I am the one who made the original tutorial for hiding tags. Sorry about the confusion, I also run the (unofficial) subreddit and someone asked this exact question like 1-2 days ago and I had to direct them to ask support when I wasn't able to find a solution.
The hidden search operators does have a search function that allows filtering out all collections from a search, but idk how to apply it to a specific collection since collections don't have ID numbers Im aware of, and also that solution doesn't really let you do it via site skin even if it did have a way to filter for a specific collection :/
You’re welcome! Feel free to reach out over on reddit if you ever have more questions. We do have a pretty good community over there that helps with these kinds of questions a lot
So I don't think you can do it with a workskin, but there is a way to find the ID of some collections!
If you can find a user with at least one work in a collection, you can go to their works page, and click "works in collections". If you go to filter that, it'll list the collections they have the most works in, and inspect element includes the collection IDs.
I've also tried to experiment with guessing collection IDs, based on collection creation date, but that's horribly inefficient and I was able to get the info I needed the other way.
Super fun. So its not possible to find the id of an anonymous or unrevealed collection at all or one without any works in it >.< (I did also try checking various pages and didn't find any other pages with that info besides the one you found).
And yeah, still no way to do it via site skin :/ but at least there is the sometimes possible workaround with regular filters i guess... if you can get the id
For an anonymous and unrevealed collections, you can get the ID if you can add your own works to it, since your own anonymous works are shown on that page.
I just checked and filtering on a range of collection IDs also seems to work, like collection_ids: <1000. I was able to find the ID of the "anonymous" collection that way, by narrowing down the range.
If it's not open and there's no works or bookmarks in it, I think you're stuck but you're not too likely to need the ID then.
Still kinda annoying of a way to get it to begin with but at least there are some workarounds to try to narrow it down a bit in the cases where its anonymous or unrevealed and not open.
I don't know how AO3 filters/sanitizes its site skin CSS but in normal CSS you can use a specific data selector (you'll have to google up how to target URLs via CSS, I've only used that thrice a few years ago since I needed workaround link targetting) to affect an item that contains a specific link. Theoretically if AO3's site skins allow it, using the newly introduced :has selector, you can hide a work container if it contains a link with the collection's URL.
Disclaimer: Liable not to work if AO3 strips complex selectors (I've never had to target a work containing a certain link URL on AO3 so I don't know if it works here), a lack of :has could possibly get worked around with some complex selector shenanigans.
Yeah, I know. I wrote this (for the record, it doesn't strip the selector). The issue is that work blurbs don't contain a link to the collections they are in on work search pages
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