Your profile now says who follows you

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If you followed somebody on Skydex, it worked. The edge was written, the count went up, the person got a bell notification, and their activity started reaching your Following filter on the live feed. What didn't happen was any of it becoming visible. Open your own profile and there was no sign that a follow graph existed at all.

That's the gap this fixes. Every profile now carries two counts under the name, followers and following, and clicking either one opens the list of people behind it. It renders on your page and on everybody else's, in the public profile and in the in-game profile card.

Why it was missing

The backend was never the problem. Follows shipped complete: the edges, the counts, an endpoint listing your followers, another listing who you follow. The client had matching functions for both lists too. They just had no caller anywhere in the app.

The only thing reading any of it was the Follow button, and the button is hidden on your own profile, because you can't follow yourself. So the person with the most reason to care about their followers was the one person guaranteed never to see them. On somebody else's page the button did print a number, but a bare number next to "Follow" doesn't tell you whose page you're about to appear on.

Meanwhile the graph kept filling up. There are fifteen follows in the database right now across thirteen accounts, the oldest from mid-August. Some of you have followers you have never been shown.

Small decisions inside it

A zero prints as a zero. It's a real answer, and hiding it would just move the confusion somewhere else. It isn't a link though, because there is nothing to open, and a button that opens an empty panel teaches you that the panel is broken.

Each row is the person's avatar, their display name, and a link to their profile. The lists are capped at a hundred and say so when they hit it. Names come from the account at read time rather than being copied into the follow row, so somebody who changes their handle shows up correctly the next time anyone loads the list.

The follower count and the Follow button sit inches apart on the same page, so the button hands its new number straight to the count when you click it. Two numbers about the same thing disagreeing on one screen is worse than having neither.

Nothing changes about what a follow does. It still feeds the Following filter on the live feed and still sends one bell notification to the person you followed, once per follower, no matter how many times you toggle it.

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