Following Content in the Forum

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. Members can also see new posts from their follows in the notification center and receive a consolidated email with relevant Forum activity.

The Following tab includes posts from:

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.

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.

To open the Following tab:

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.

Members can follow a community forum board directly from the board page.

To follow a board:

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.

Members can follow people from member profile pages.

To follow a person:

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.

Members can manage their saved Forum activity from the Watching & Following page.

This page includes three tabs:

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.

The Following tab in the notification center shows:

Selecting a notification opens the related Forum post. Each notification is marked as read or unread independently.

Marking a notification as read does not remove the update from the member’s email notifications. New comments and replies on watched posts continue to appear in the Comments tab.

Members can receive a single email summarizing new Forum activity from:

The email can include new posts from followed people, the number of new posts in followed boards, and recent comments on watched posts. Selecting an item in the email opens the related person, board, post, or comment.

The community’s administrators choose whether these emails are available and how often they are sent. Available frequencies are every three hours, daily, or weekly.

To manage this email:

Turning this setting off stops the consolidated email. It does not unfollow any people, boards, or posts, and it does not remove updates from the Following feed or notification center.

Set the email frequency

When email notifications are enabled, admins can select the email frequency:

The Following feed updates automatically as a member’s access changes.

Examples include:

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.

Dashboard admins can control whether members receive email notifications about the people, boards, and posts they follow.

To configure these emails:

Weekly emails are selected by default. Daily and weekly emails are sent according to the time zone configured in the dashboard.

This community setting controls whether the email is available to members. When it is turned on, each member’s New activity from your follows preference determines whether they receive the email.

Email Communications must be enabled before this setting can be turned on. These emails count toward the community’s email usage.