While we are at it… these are Buttons, that are really needed.
Functionality:
If you hit the “follow”-Button on a post, you will receive notifications like when you commented the post - but without commenting it. Nice to keep track of things that are interesting to you, but you won’t have to comment and cause a notification to all others, that are receiving notifications for this post.
The unfollow-button removed this subscription. This works regardless how you followed. If you write a comment, you “follow” the post. If it’s your post, you follow it - just like it works now.
Why I need the “unfollow” Button:
I had some posts, that had some comments. So far, so good. But then the discussion drifted away in a direction, I really didn’t want to read the comments. I would have “hidden” the post, but this is not possible with own posts. I didn’t want to delete it, because if they want to discuss - they should do so. But I wanted to no longer receive notifications.
For this szenario the unfollow-button would be the apropriate thing to use.
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@Dennis
Okay, maybe you could explain what the load issues were? Maybe there is another way to implement it… I don’t want the idea in general to get lost just because it was hard to implement / to get up to speed.
The like has a different behavior since this information is shared with other users.
As I understand the proposal (and would like to see myself), the follow action would let you track posts of interest to you while keeping this private.
I would rather have a follow/unfollow toggle than a like button. I often use the like button as such. Since these options should have different behavior, I would like to have both available.
