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Is it possible to follow a user on AskBot?

asked Feb 26 '11

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updated Oct 07 '11

Evgeny gravatar image Evgeny flag of Chile
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Maybe this is a feature request - I'd like to be able to follow or subscribe to specific users. I.e. be kept abreast of questions and answers that certain users make. Seems like this could be a good "social" feature for the platform. Also it would be another interesting metric in one's user profile - how many followers someone has, etc.

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Agreed, this was requested before - on todo list now. It is hard to tell when it will be done, feel free to get involved - by either coding or helping to hire someone do it. We have a team shaping up, but it will still probably have some time to get up to speed. Evgeny (Feb 26 '11)
cool - sorry I missed the earlier question locomo (Feb 26 '11)

Since this feature has been implemented, can this question be marked as resolved.

rags (Oct 07 '11)

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answered Oct 07 '11

Evgeny gravatar image Evgeny flag of Chile
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updated Oct 07 '11

Done a while ago.

We've also created a django app django-followit, which is available for reuse on pypi and github.

To use it, just add to your models

import followit
follow.register(MyModel)

and add to the urls.py

(r'^followit/', include('followit.urls')),

Then run

python manage.py syncdb

More models to follow can be added later and the follow function activated by re-running syncdb.

To follow or unfollow, post to the urls described here.

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