The connections list learns to follow back
Your Followers tab now tags the people who follow you, and connection lists offer Follow back instead of a plain Follow. No profile hop required.
You open someone's Followers tab and the handles tell a story. Beside each person who follows you sits a small gray "Follows you" tag, and their button reads Follow back instead of Follow. Hover a name or a handle and the browser shows the full text. Click the button and it flips to Following without leaving the list.
Credit goes to richardkeep, who moved the follow bookkeeping onto one shared path for all four tabs. Those tabs are Followers, Followers you know, Following, and Mutuals. For each person the server now answers two questions at once. Do you follow them, and do they follow you? It still sorts the newest follow first and serves 30 people per page.
There is one catch. The Follows you tag only appears on the Followers tab. Open Followers you know and someone who follows you gets a Follow back button, but no tag explains why. And on your own Followers page the tag lands on every row, since by definition everyone there follows you.
Key files · #1354
- app/
Queries/ UserConnectionsQuery.php - resources/
js/ connections.tsxpages/ user/ - resources/
js/ follow-button.tsxcomponents/ - app/
Http/ UserFollowersController.phpControllers/ - app/
Http/ UserFollowingController.phpControllers/ - app/
Http/ UserFollowersYouKnowController.phpControllers/ - app/
Http/ UserMutualsController.phpControllers/ - tests/
Feature/ UserFollowersControllerTest.phpControllers/