Follow feature where 😾

[BORB]

@hazeleyes

It will get updated over the next few hours, however, then you’ll be able to search for your friends.

(Also, hi, Borg!)

Hi bageleyes, thanks bageleyes!

@idmonfish

Hi @BORB

Hi cinnamonfish!

@idmonfish

one of the core devs basically says he doesn’t see what problem it solves for forums - his point is that primarily forums are about reading and information not personalities.

I can definitely see his point, but in my personal opinion, I think forums is also a good way to make friends, therefore there’s got to be some personality involved. The following feature would be a nice stepping stone to making a new friend, or just more interaction. I also believe as I said in my original post, it can cause “competition” and you can try to make quality posts in order to get more followers. You can see examples of this in the forums ran by SEMC. The people that write quality threads naturally have more followers that write threads that have little detail. I know it’s all up to the developers of Discourse to decide if they want a following feature and it seems unlikely due to their posts, but one can hope!