Hide Threads on Bogleheads front page

Allows you hide a thread on the Bogleheads front page by clicking an "x" button that appears on rollover of the right side of each row

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You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

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You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Hide Threads on Bogleheads front page
// @namespace    https://www.bogleheads.org/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Allows you hide a thread on the Bogleheads front page by clicking an "x" button that appears on rollover of the right side of each row
// @author       ChatGPT
// @match https://www.bogleheads.org/*
// @exclude https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/*
// @exclude https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/*
// @exclude https://www.bogleheads.org/blog/*
// @license MIT
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Select the table with the ID of posts_table
    const table = document.getElementById("posts_table");
    if (!table) {
        return;
    }

    // Select all rows in the main thread list
    const rows = table.querySelectorAll("tbody tr");

    // Load the list of hidden thread titles from local storage
    const hiddenThreadTitles = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hiddenThreadTitles") || "{}");

    // Iterate over each row
    for (let i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
        const row = rows[i];

        // ignore header rows by skipping rows with less than 5 td elements
        if (row.getElementsByTagName("td").length < 5) {
            continue;
        }

        // Select the first link in the row
        const link = row.querySelector("td a");
        if (!link) {
            continue;
        }

        // Get the text of the link
        const title = link.innerHTML;

        // If the link text is in the list of hidden thread titles, hide the row
        if (hiddenThreadTitles[title]) {
            row.style.display = "none";
        }

        // Create a span element to hold the button
        const span = document.createElement("span");
        span.style.float = "right";
        span.style.marginTop = "-0.5em";
        span.style.opacity = "0";
        span.style.display = "inline-block";

        // Create a button element
        const button = document.createElement("button");
        button.innerHTML = "&times;";
        button.style.background = "none";
        button.style.border = "none";
        button.style.cursor = "pointer";
        button.style.fontSize = "smaller";
        button.style.height = "1em";
        button.style.lineHeight = "1em";
        button.style.width = "1em";
        button.style.position = "relative";
        button.style.top = "5px";

        // Add the button to the span
        span.appendChild(button);

        // Add the span to the row
        row.appendChild(span);

        // Attach a hover event listener to the span
        span.addEventListener("mouseover", function() {
            // When the span is hovered over, show the button
            span.style.opacity = "1";
        });
        span.addEventListener("mouseout", function() {
            // When the mouse moves out of the span, hide the button
            span.style.opacity = "0";
        });

        // Attach a click event listener to the button
        button.addEventListener("click", function() {
            // When the button is clicked, hide the row
            row.style.display = "none";

            // Add the title of the hidden thread to the list of hidden thread titles
            hiddenThreadTitles[title] = true;

            // Store the list of hidden thread titles in local storage
            localStorage.setItem("hiddenThreadTitles", JSON.stringify(hiddenThreadTitles));
        });

        button.addEventListener("mouseenter", function() {
            row.style.backgroundColor = "#f2f2f2";
        });

        button.addEventListener("mouseleave", function() {
            row.style.backgroundColor = "";
        });

    }
})();