Oh hey! A dev! Hello fellow dev

The hide posts indeed just makes it load forever, probably due to the issue you mentioned. The blur posts option is indeed elsewhere, and enabling it blurs stuff ok :D

I really like Thunder since it reminds me (after some slight tweaks) of baconreader (rip)

Weird. I turned on the option but now my feed never loads until I disable it. Besides, it should be “blur” posts, not hide! It’s confusing…

The only feature I miss really, really hard in Thunder is blurring nswf posts. It had the feature before! Then lemmy changed a bit and it never got re-instated.