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Block a certain author
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Feb 2, 2025
Blocking certain authors so that they wouldn’t come out in recommendations and users will not see any of their works in the search pages (let’s say I’m boycotting their works)
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Hello! Just cleaning up some of our older feature requests - this was announced as released in our May newsletter (https://hardcover.app/blog/hardcover-report-for-may-2026) 🎉
Being able to block authors helps with the social side of the site: if I'm following someone whose activity frequently puts an author I don't want to see in my feed, my only option right now is to unfollow them. I'd rather just block the author and keep the HC user.
Yes, this would be so useful! Like, if I've read a couple books from that author already and I know I do not vibe with their writing, it would be very helpful especially to clean recommendations up.
Brilliant for boycotting. Beyond that I could see myself using it to filter out some really big names I know I'm not interested in to clean up my recs for a specific genre. I love this idea!