Change the way hidden communities work (or implement a different way of removing communities from /all)

[Demigodrick]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

When using the API to hide communities from /all, it also has the effect of hiding the posts from a user's profile.

This happens even if you're subscribed to a community, you still can't see that user's posts on their profile from that community, which makes following a particular person hard.

Similarly, it also makes discoverability of hidden communities tricky too.

Describe the solution you'd like.

It would be ideal if there was a way to just hide the communities from /all, but still allow the rest of the features for the profile and the community. I don't want certain NSFW to spam the all /feed, but at the same time I don't want to completely kill those communities for my users who want to see them, or interactions between users because the community is hidden from /all, but there doesn't appear to be a middle ground option here. Just a way to hide from /all without affecting any other content or functionality would be great.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Alternative way of hiding communities from the /all feed that doesn't also hide the communities from users if searched for.

Additional context

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