# What happened to "blur spoiler"?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [January 11, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958 "2024-01-11T16:19:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/1 "2024-01-11T16:19:21Z")
It has disappeared as a menu option. You now have to type in the tags by hand. This change sucks.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/2 "2024-01-11T16:21:42Z")
It’s there for me.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/3 "2024-01-11T16:25:12Z")
Click the gear wheel, the option is there.
Highlight the text and click “blur spoiler”.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/4 "2024-01-11T16:26:15Z")
I’ve never tried to use it before now.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/5 "2024-01-11T16:26:47Z")
Sometimes I have to scroll down to see it. Sometimes the whole list is visible when I click the cog. But it’s there.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/6 "2024-01-11T16:28:22Z")
Thanks, I found it now.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/7 "2024-01-11T16:29:18Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Click the gear wheel, the option is there.
> Highlight the text and click “blur spoiler”.
Not here.
[ ](https://i.postimg.cc/3RLXypGK/Screenshot-20240111-112737.jpg)
Eta: wait, it is there if I touch the menu area and slide the options up. So it is just now showing a limited set when there is no reason to not display everything at once.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/8 "2024-01-11T16:34:18Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> > [@running\_coach](#):
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> > Click the gear wheel, the option is there.
> > Highlight the text and click “blur spoiler”.
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> Not here.
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> [Screenshot 20240111 112737 — Postimages](https://i.postimg.cc/3RLXypGK/Screenshot-20240111-112737.jpg)
Is here.
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/Fk4XS19.jpg)
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/9 "2024-01-11T16:36:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> wait, it is there if I touch the menu area and slide the options up.
Yeah, it does that in mobile view. The menu list size is restricted, and Blur Spoiler isn’t visible unless you scroll it. That doesn’t happen on desktop.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/10 "2024-01-11T16:37:05Z")
> [@TroutMan](#):
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> Yeah, it does that in mobile view.
Not until today it didn’t. Not for me. (I haven’t use the SMDB on anything other than a cell phone for years, never used Discord on a desktop.)
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/11 "2024-01-11T16:47:20Z")
I use a larger font on my phone, and I’ve had to scroll to see all options before. I’d guess there was a recent stylesheet update that forced scrolling for smaller fonts too, so you’re only seeing it now.
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### Author:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/12 "2024-01-11T17:43:45Z")
Let’s see if I can do this on my first try.
> **Summary**
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> Not what I expected.
Second Try. Duh, had to pick Blur Spoiler instead of Hide.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/13 "2024-01-11T18:09:38Z")
They clearly put out an update on Discourse recently, or at least updated it on this board, just within the past couple of days. Because yesterday for the first time I noticed that when I highlight text there is a “copy quote” option I’ve never seen before. It’s appearing both on my desktop browser and on my phone.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/14 "2024-01-11T18:18:04Z")
I have a pretty decent amount of astigmatism. I don’t need your newfangled gewgaws.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/15 "2024-01-11T18:22:10Z")
What if you want to see blurry colors?
🤢 🥵 🥶 😈 🫵 🫁 🚵♂️
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/16 "2024-01-11T18:28:24Z")
I never realized it existed as a menu item. Cool!
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/17 "2024-01-11T19:45:38Z")
this is a test
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/18 "2024-01-11T21:42:31Z")
The change is not brand new.
Here’s a sub-thread of complaint and explanation from ~2 weeks ago. I suspect the difference is when an individual device’s cached copy of some scripts update to current. And I suspect there’s an interaction between device screen size, text size, etc.
> [@Test thread — to test things out. Do not lock!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/472):
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> I’ve lost the ability to blur spoilers.
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> > **Summary**
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> > Testing…
Here’s another thread on point from early Nov.
> [@Can the Blur Spoiler setting be moved back up under Hide Details?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-blur-spoiler-setting-be-moved-back-up-under-hide-details/992454):
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> I noticed there’s now a Build Poll setting option added to the other options, and it’s sitting right under the Hide Details, which means the Blur Spoiler is sitting at the bottom now - I keep accidentally hitting the Build Poll instead of Blur Spoiler, and I have to scroll down to see it. It seems it’d make more sense to have the Blur Spoiler sitting right under the Hide Details, and maybe place the Build Poll at the bottom instead? Not sure if this belongs in Site Feedback or here…move if nee…
I suspect this thread belongs in Site Feedback since it’s a Discourse technological question, not an rules or mods question.
The OP here may just now be seeing it, but it isn’t new to the rest of us.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/19 "2024-01-11T21:58:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> The OP here may just now be seeing it
I post a lot on current running TV shows and therefore use the spoiler tag often. So it isn’t something that I revist only occasionally and just now noticed. Whatever change couldn’t have reached my phone more than a couple of days ago.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-blur-spoiler/995958/20 "2024-01-11T22:03:30Z")
> [@AHunter3](#):
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> I never realized it existed as a menu item. Cool!
Same here. I just always typed in the {brackets} and text.
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