Following users

Stay up to date with the ideas, comments, and votes of other users

When you follow a user, their activity appears the Ideas stream in your Profile area. When they follow you, your activity appears in their stream. Manage who you are following, and see who is following you in your Profile.

Follow a user

To follow a user:

  1. Click on their name or profile image from anywhere in the community to bring up their profile summary.

    Profile Summary of a user named 'Alun McLean' with statistics, photograph, and edit buttons

  2. Click the Follow button underneath the user's profile image.

The ideas and comments the user posts will now appear in your Ideas stream.

Unfollow a user

Stop following a user from their profile or yours.

From their profile summary:

  1. Click on the user's name or profile image from anywhere in the community to open their profile.

  2. Click Unfollow below their profile image.

From your profile:

  1. Click on your profile image in the navigation menu, and then click Go to Profile.

  2. Select the Following tab.

  3. Click the Unfollow button next to the user to stop following.

    Following tab showing two users, each with an Unfollow button

Your followers

To see which users are following your activity in the community:

  1. Click on your profile image in the navigation menu, and then click Go to Profile.

  2. Select the Followers tab.

From the list you can choose to follow ones that are already following you, or unfollow existing users.

Followers tab listing three profiles, the first has Follow option and the others have Unfollow