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Before people running this start complaining to @sox and @k00b about the site being slow…

This fires on every DOM mutation (often multiple times per load) and queries the whole document each time. With many live comments and huge threads, this can be a problem.

At the very least, the observer logic should be debounced and only act on newly added nodes.

thank you for sharing your code.

I realise one bad side-effect of LLMs is that there's increasing pressure for code to be highly polished before sharing, and thus possibly greater pressure to keep snippets and tweaks private. I'm not familiar with much/any of your work, beyond knowing that you are [were?] one of the main SN devs, so you might be a little immune to that pressure.

I must admit, I do consider the simple implementation a bad idea, or at least, an excessively coarse solution to a granular problem. e.g. when I muted DarthCoin once, I only did temporarily because I was pissed enough that wasting time and energy on useless arguments became a real risk; if I didn't eventually see comments from him when viewing muted comments, I might have forgotten to unmute until someone mentioned him.

Op @ek why don't you attach and show attached LN wallets?
Clearly you are capable but maybe you dont believe in verifying you are on board with and maximising your use of and support of LN here on SNs?
Genuinely mystified why you would not attach or deliberately conceal your LN wallet attached status.

Fixes courtesy of:

• runAfterHydration: GPT, Claude, Gemini and GLM (all said the same, lol)
• node.style = "visibility: hidden" instead of node.remove(): Opti, because the removal gave me errors on comment.

window.addEventListener('load', () => {
  function runAfterHydration(callback) {
    requestAnimationFrame(() => {
      requestAnimationFrame(callback);
    });
  }

  runAfterHydration(() => {
    function removeCollapsedComments() {
      document
        .querySelectorAll('div[class*="comment_collapsed"]')
        .forEach(node => {
          if (node.textContent.startsWith("reply from someone you muted")) {
            node.style = "visibility: hidden";
          }
        });
    }

    removeCollapsedComments();

    const observer = new MutationObserver(removeCollapsedComments);
    observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
  });
});

Does your script hide the comments from muted users that stay collapsed until you click on them? It could be a toggle in the SN settings, and the name is really good.

Fight code With code

I don’t remember the lifecycle of mutation observers, do you need to clean them up somehow?