Where is the "follow user" option in the new Community?

[VXLozano]

I'm sorry if someone has asked it, or if it's somewhere in neon lights and I've been blind to it, but I cannot find a way to follow people (to have notifications when they publish something new).

Is it something related with the banner in the "following" page?

Welcome to new SAP Profile beta
Currently this service is being developed and therefore some functionality is not available or disabled.

I missed my yearly International Editable SALV Day because Haul Pardy has a new ID, and I want not to miss anything else.

Edited: someone decided to replace the quote with a spoiler thing that does NOT work sometimes (or never, I don't know)

[kirankumar440]

I am also looking for the same since I started using this new SAP Community forum.

But, could not find any solution for it so far.

Thanks

Kiran K

[kirankumar440]

++ @MirkoFriedrich 

[Xenia]

Hi I use a workaround for that (via RSS feed, but hopefully the follow function will be brought back soon...):

1. go to users: https://community.sap.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/user 

2. search for the user, you would like to follow

3. klick on respective users posts:

4. klick on "Options" -> "subscribe to RSS":

5. use the feed URL for your RSS reader:

[kirankumar440]

Hello @Xenia thanks for the Workaround steps.

a)Could you please explain the step5 with some more details ? Once we get the URL ? what are the next steps ? can you please add the steps with screenshots ?

b) Also , if any new content gets added , will that work ? or we get notifications for only existing contents of that user?

[Xenia]

Hi @kirankumar440 ,

a) this depends on your OS and the RSS reader of choice... I suggest looking at open source RRS readers or alternatives, that fit your need and see on how to configure them, but this should be quite easy

b) if you use the respective link (as in pic 5) you'll get all the posts from the respective user (just verified this looking at my feeds)

[MichiFr]

So, workarounds and RSS feeds aside, why has the follow feature been removed at all? Sounds not reasonable for me.

[VXLozano]

I assumed it's because the whole Profile section is a WiP... since ¿2020? Without a proper profile system, you cannot follow profiles, I guess.

SAP has other priorities for the community, probably, and they'd perceive the "follow" feature not as useful as rounded boxes in the thread view or other fancy things some of us don't care about, but probably the mainstream do.

[MichiFr]

Unfortunately, SAP re-invents their so called community every now and then and drops well accepted features and add adds new ones at random times, no straight path recognizable. 

This goes along with loosing links from search engines and with (SAP-)Wikis here and there.

I wonder if responsible SAP managers know what happens under their feet, guess they don't care as long as there is enough revenue.

Guess what, that's life and fortunately SAP is not the main part of it 😉

[ohgiworking]

Couldn't agree more... How can SAP expect a greater expert community without giving everyone a choice to follow those GOAT users? As a newbie, I want to follow updates from great users in this community. And GOATs need to be recognized and rewarded in the long term based on the growth of their followers.

In communities like GitHub, the number of followers is very helpful for one's career. But in SAP, this feature doesn't even exist...

This is really frustrating for me. It seems like SAP doesn’t care about this community, even though the users here work hard and have helped the practice of SAP A LOT.