Follow boards and people in the Forum to build a more personalized feed and quickly return to the discussions that matter most to you.
The Following tab gives members a personalized Forum feed based on the boards, clubs, and people they follow. This makes it easier to keep up with relevant conversations without browsing the full Forum.
What appears in the Following tab
The Following tab includes posts from:
club forum boards connected to clubs the member has joined
community forum boards the member follows
people the member follows
Posts are shown in newest-first order.
If the same post matches more than one of these sources, it still appears only once in the feed.
How the Following tab works
The Following tab only shows posts the member already has access to view. Following a board or person does not give access to restricted content. Members will only see posts they can normally access based on the community, board, club, space, and post visibility rules.
Pending review posts follow the same visibility rules used elsewhere in the Forum. Authors can see their own pending posts, and moderators can see pending posts they are responsible for reviewing.
Visitors who are not signed in do not see the Following tab.
Use the Following tab
To open the Following tab:
Go to the Forum home page.
Click Following.
This opens a personalized feed of posts from the boards, clubs, and people the member follows.
If a logged-in member is not following any boards or people and has not joined any clubs with forum boards, the page shows an empty state with an Explore button. Selecting Explore opens the full boards list.
If the member already follows boards or people, or has joined clubs, but there are no matching posts yet, the page shows the standard empty state.
Follow a board
Members can follow a community forum board directly from the board page.
To follow a board:
Open the board page.
Click Follow.
The board will now be included in the member’s Following feed.
To stop following a board, open the board page and click Unfollow.
Club forum boards do not have a separate follow action. Joining the club is what adds that club’s forum posts to the Following feed.
Follow a person
Members can follow people from member profile pages.
To follow a person:
Open the member’s profile page.
Click Follow.
The person’s posts will now be included in the member’s Following feed when those posts are available to them.
To stop following someone, open their profile and click Unfollow.
If a followed person is no longer available in the community, their posts no longer appear in the Following feed.
Manage followed content
Members can manage their saved Forum activity from the Watching & Following page.
This page includes three tabs:
Watching Posts
Following Boards
Following People
The Following Boards tab shows the boards the member follows, including joined club boards that are currently available to them.
The Following People tab shows the people the member follows.
Selecting a board opens that board page. Selecting a person opens that member’s profile.
Changes that update the feed
The Following feed updates automatically as a member’s access changes.
Examples include:
leaving a club removes that club’s forum posts from the feed
losing access to a restricted board removes that board’s posts from the feed
unfollowing a board removes that board’s posts from the feed
unfollowing a person removes that person’s posts from the feed
Record board followers in the dashboard
Admins can also track board followers in the dashboard.
The community boards table includes a Followers column that shows the number of followers for each community board. This column can be sorted in ascending or descending order.