Who to follow gets the X
Every suggestion in Who to follow now carries a small X. Click it and that developer drops out for good, on every device, while the next name slides up.
Top storyTook the lead from Replies break formation in your inbox #911. You can now click an X beside any Who to follow suggestion to remove that developer for good on every device, with no undo. Held off 2 challengers since.
Open the sidebar and three names wait under Who to follow. Hover one and, beside the small follow icon, there is now an X. Click it and the row folds shut, the next person slides into the empty slot, and the other two do not budge. No menu, no confirmation, no mute.
Credit goes to harris21, who added the X and taught the server to remember it. Each press is stored as a pair of accounts in a new table, wiped when either account is deleted, and only you can see your own list, inside your data export. Every page load ships three visible suggestions plus three spares, so a slot refills without a round trip. Burn through the spares and it fetches more. Dismissed names drop out of the pool the box draws from, which already skips muted people and anyone you follow, and the picks still reshuffle once a day.
There is one catch, though. There is no undo and no list. Dismiss someone by accident and that box never shows their name again, your only record is the dismissal list in your data export, and you have to hunt them down on their profile to follow them by hand.
Key files · #880
- app/
Queries/ SuggestedUsersQuery.php - app/
Actions/ CreateSuggestionDismissal.php - app/
Http/ SuggestionDismissalController.phpControllers/ - app/
Http/ CreateSuggestionDismissalRequest.phpRequests/ - database/
migrations/ 2026_10_20_120000_create_suggestion_dismissals_table.php - resources/
js/ who-to-follow.tsxcomponents/ - resources/
js/ follow-button.tsxcomponents/ - routes/
web.php