Followers & Friends

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I don’t know if it is possible to add functionalities to the forum, but if it is, I have two wishes/idea’s:

  1. Followers
    You can follow others via their profile.
    You can opt in to receive notification whenever someone you follow starts a new topic or posts a public message. Would be amazing if these notifications were fully customizable (as in for each person different settings).
    The amount of followers is displayed on the profile and therefore people with more followers will likely have a good community reputation.

  2. Friends
    Another idea for community binding is friends.
    You can send a friend request to anyone. If he/she accepts, you become friends, and you will both be featured in each other’s friends list on the profile.
    When creating a private message, a friends list will appear so that you can easily select a friend to write a private message to.
    Similar to followers, you can opt in to receive notifications when your friends create new posts.
    You can turn off the ability for others to send a friend request, or you can limit it that only people you follow can send you a friend request. This is for anti-spam, especially for popular accounts.

Both features also enables more potential badge ideas, for example:

  • Your first follower!
  • Reach X amount of followers
  • You follow someone/ X amount of people
  • Your first friend
  • Reach X amount of friends
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Damn what a great job

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That is a very good idea, I’ve already seen some people here that I follow on Reddit.

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Loved the idea :bulb: if possible to implement ; would be cool :sunglasses:

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Great job, i like this idea. Wonderful

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great idea’s well done Webmaster Sili :cowboy_hat_face:

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Hehe…

I know they use a template: Discourse
So my guess is that such feature needs to be added to the template, which will probably take some time…

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great idea, maybe it will be implemented :star_struck:

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you spent a lot of time thinking about this good post

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Great idea! I could see how this will improve the forum

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I like your advices a lot!!

They are really helpful :smiley:

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Great job :clap: , continue move on

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It is such a good idea!!!

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yea its a good idea btw :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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It would be interesting if we had it here

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The Idea sounds good and more filling n lively for the forum.
Hope the dev team of this forum take this in consideration for the upcoming updates

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Kind explanation! Thanks!

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Wen friends feature ??? :handshake:

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This would be a very good idea and will make the forum more interactive and exciting.

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That’s a great set of ideas—expanding forum functionalities could really boost engagement. One feature I’ve seen work well on other platforms is a “quick reply” option with rich formatting. Also, maybe even light analytics tools for post engagement could help members tailor their content better.

On a side note, I’ve noticed some users talk about growth strategies like how influencers sometimes buy Instagram followers to gain initial traction—obviously controversial, but shows how people look for features or tactics to accelerate visibility. If we add functionality, we should think about how to support ethical, organic growth too.