But Daniel, hidden topics WEREN'T excluded from TIO before. They honestly, definitely, 100% weren't. Hidden threads have been for a long time, but never hidden topics.
Plus, as mentioned, some topics - MNers with SN, and OTBT being the ones I am aware of, these cannot be unhidden to appear in Active which means that they also won't appear in TIO.
I don't like getting loads of emails so I'm not signed up to email alerts which means that I now can't follow that support thread at all which given it's a support thread for ADHD is rather ironic because it means I'm extremely unlikely to remember to go and check the section!
Lastly, if I'm going to have to unhide all my hidden topics from Active are there any plans for another way to view reduced topic versions of active, like letting users pick a list of "Favourite topics" to just view active threads from those specifically?