The times of the “@[insert username] blocked you” web page look like over. X proprietor Elon Musk introduced a brand new change to the platform’s blocking function permitting blocked customers to see posts of the accounts that blocked them.
Blocked accounts nonetheless received’t have the ability to work together with these accounts however they’ll have the ability to see their posts. A supply from X instructed The Verge the brand new blocked entry function is being carried out as a result of customers can already see and work together with accounts which have blocked them by switching to a non-blocked account.
Musk has wished to disable the block function on X for awhile now. Greater than a yr in the past, he first expressed his disdain for blocking on X (or technically, Twitter) apart from direct messages. He wrote that blocking would turn into “deleted as a ‘function’” in addition to saying “It is unnecessary.”
Final Could, X’s Engineering account introduced it might implement the blocked viewer change to the platform with out together with a stable implementation or rollout date. The put up stated the change could be carried out to provide customers with blocked accounts the flexibility to “determine and report any potential unhealthy content material that you just beforehand couldn’t view.”