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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Notification when a followed post is deleted
I follow and bookmark quite a lot of posts, so I can find them easily, re-read them etc... but I usually follow them so that I can be notified about actions on that post. There are inbox notes of ...
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Allow users to view the exact date and time they followed a post
When I visit the 'Following' tab on my profile, I can only see the date and time of the last activity but it doesn't show the date and time when I followed the post.
Users should be able to see the ...
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Allow following site elections
A couple of new elections have popped up that I would like to keep tabs on, and I'm still missing being able to get updates to the election post in my inbox.
We had an election happening on English ...
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Allow for more granularity of notifications for followed posts
Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of the follow feature.
I use it a lot but I ran into a problem that I'm not always interested in edits + comments + answers + anything else at the same time. ...
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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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Please notify users who are following a question when a bounty starts or ends
When a followed question is edited or closed, it triggers an inbox notification for those who follow it. However, I just noticed that starting a bounty does not trigger an inbox notification, nor does ...
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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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Group notifications of followed topics (e.g. like comments on own posts)
When the feature was announced: The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
I replied a year ago with some concerns, of which, the grouping of notifications. I did not get ...
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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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Allow tag changes to notify when following a post
When a post is followed, and an edit only changes a tag, say status-review → status-declined, no notification is sent to the post follower. This may have to do with the threshold for edits ...
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Enable following questions locked with historical lock
Following questions locked with the historical lock is currently not possible.
Since the historical lock is not set in stone, and it can be removed at any time, there is no reason to prevent following/...
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"Seguir" string switches to English when you follow a post on Portuguese SO
Over at Stack Overflow in Portuguese, when you click the "seguir" button (Follow) to follow a post:
It switches to the English "following":
Instead of showing "Following&...
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Follow popup won't clear (without refresh)
The first time visiting a stack with the new follow mechanic, you get the "Get updates on questions and answers" popup.
If the "follow" link is clicked, there is strange behavior. Clicking the X on ...
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When a suspended user clicks on "follow" on a question, it says "Following" even though suspended user cannot follow questions
Example:
This was originally closed as a duplicate of a different bug report reporting that suspended users cannot follow posts, as it was believed that that was the issue and this would be made ...
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Follow button glitches when a new answer is loaded up via AJAX
I just noticed a bug with the follow button preventing you from following a post. It has been asked before here: "follow" link glitches to "You’re no longer following this question"...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to follow questions/answers?
Apologies if this has been asked before, I looked but couldn't find any mention of it.
We can now follow questions and answers, which is great. Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate the feature, ...
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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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Anonymous users get no notification when attempting to follow a post from a review queue
When checking out the review-queue item created by an anonymous edit of mine, I noticed that clicking on the "follow" link does nothing. No console messages, no confirmation, no pop-up. ...
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Duplicate inbox message about answers to a bountied question that is also being followed
I received two notifications in my inbox about the same answer being posted.
As you can see, one is due to the fact I followed the question a couple of days ago. The other I recognize as being due to ...
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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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Questions only option doesn’t fit for following posts section on mobile browser
On my iPad with Google Chrome as a browser “Questions only” option doesn’t fit into block for following posts section.
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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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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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