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Is it possible to blur text in articles' titles and text? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm part of a few communities where we discus TV shows and it's important to be able to hide spoilers. Be it on the title, the body of the text, or even blur images that are attached to the article.

Is it here a way to do this on Kbin?spoilers,

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

May I suggest something ancient like ROT13? Bookmarklets are easily made to be able to decypher such content, or at a pinch it can be copy-pasted to a tool elsewhere. e.g. Spoiler for some film or another; ROT13: Arb jnf n cbgngb gur jubyr gvzr.

Advantages: Still looks like text. Reasonably identifiable as some kind of letter cypher, which will allow the reader to guess that it might plausibly be something like ROT13 even if unlabelled.

Disadvantages: Old enough to confuse new people. Eventually someone will learn to read it without tools and get spoiled anyway.

Edit: Also not ideal for International users, but I assume there are other cyphers where ROT13 won't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Base64 works as well, there are easy encoders/decoders like this one which can work in a pinch.

You can have something like Base64 spoiler: Sm9obiBkaWVkIGluIHNlYXNvbiAyLg== which would decode to John died in season 2..