Questions tagged [follow-post]
For questions about the 'follow questions and answers' functionality, where you receive updates about a post as if you were the post owner.
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Seeing the follow questions popup on sites I have more than 15 rep [duplicate]
When the follow questions/answers feature was rolled out, it included a popup notifying users about it. There was a feature request asking for it to be globally dismissible, and Yaakov Ellis mentioned ...
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How do I stop the "follow" prompt from appearing on every single page?
Recently this new (to me?) button appeared, I assumed I would see it once and when I dismissed it that would be that. Instead it appears on every single page I've visited for the last few days - it's ...
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Find that it fails to unfollow a question sometimes recently
I am originally following a question (Spring JPA Auto Flush) . Then I click the Following status link in the question to unfollow it. A popup then display saying that You’re no longer following this ...
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Unfollowing a post by clicking on the [following] button does not work on WebKit browsers (all iOS browsers and Mac Safari) [duplicate]
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With some browsers on macOS and iOS, unfollowing a question or answer dows not work anymore by clicking on the [following] button below the post.
The test results (below) strongly indicate ...
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How can I get notified only for new answer posts for a followed question? [duplicate]
I know I can follow a question, but I was wondering if it is possible to only get notified if there is a new answer posted?
I would like to avoid notifications of comments, especially if I follow a ...
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What are the differences between the question and answer follow buttons? [duplicate]
I just realized that the original question has a clickable follow button and also if someone answers a question that has a clickable follow button.
If I want to follow the original question, I ...
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Make the number of follows for a post available to the post creator
When I asked whether there's a way of knowing how many members are following one's post, I was told this:
For the most part, you can't. Follows have never been publicly available.
https://meta....
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How do you find out how many members are following your post?
Is there a way of knowing how many members subscribe to a post's updates? I understand it's called "following":
You can follow any question or answer (that you did not author) by clicking ...
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Editing (or live-refreshing) a post that you follow resets the text of the Follow button
I followed a question, then started editing it. After I saved the edits, it returned to the post (as usual) but I noticed that the text of the Follow button has been reset to "Follow" ...
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Cannot unfollow a post that is also bookmarked from profile summary page without unbookmarking first
I have a post that I have both followed and bookmarked. (I was doing some unrelated testing).
When attempting to unfollow the post from my profile summary page I was presented with the option to &...
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Why do "bookmark" and "follow" behave differently for logged-out users when both are non-privileged features?
When a user is logged out, there are some elements that they can interact with:
And this is how they behave:
Upvote/downvote: show a "join the community" pop-up with the required ...
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The ability to unfollow all
Looking at the occasional new post to an old question that I've followed, I realise that most of the posts I'm getting pings from I'm no longer interested in.
Having been over-enthusiastic at pressing ...
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Completed review item does not show whether you voted or followed the post anymore
When you navigated back to a review queue item, at least in the First Posts queue, we used to be able to see whether we up- or downvoted, just like on the normal Q&A page. This is no longer the ...
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Add notification for when a followed question accepts an answer and when a followed answer gets accepted
I follow the questions that I answer, and oftentimes I would check back at the question I answered most recently to see if their OP accepted an answer. If so, I would be able to review the accepted ...
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Do I automatically follow (edits, comments, etc) to wiki answers I've made that I later made community wiki? [duplicate]
I think I remember a few times some of my CW answers were edited but I wasn't notified. Not sure. But I guess since there isn't a 'follow' button below such answers, I still do follow them?
If this is ...
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