Been searching all around both on the Github repo and here on the community site, and can't find much of anything that describes the purpose behind following users. So I follow people, and people follow me... what gives? What's it for?
What I'm looking for is a way to drum up a "custom global feed," or a view where the user can just see a feed of posts/topics from users and categories that they follow. It seems that is the role the inbox/unread view is attempting to fill, no? If so, what are the thoughts on beefing that idea up a little bit to allow that view to pull in content from users that I follow as well, rather than just categories?
When you follow someone you get a notification when they post a new topic. There has been some discussion about this on GH and internally as well see https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/3128.
If you ignore categories, they don't show up in /unread, maybe another setting could be to only show topics from categories and users that you follow.
Yeh, I follow @julian and @psychobunny just for extra stalker points.
And now I follow @baris too, mwuhahahaha!
I agree that a special route showing activites from your followed individuals would be interesting... perhaps a plugin? 
@baris said:
If you ignore categories, they don't show up in /unread, maybe another setting could be to only show topics from categories and users that you follow.
Yes that was trying to get at. I would very much enjoy that functionality. I would think if I follow someone I am interested in their activity on the site to help me discover things that are relevant to me. I would like to see my followees' posts regardless of topic, etc. Seems to me like it would be part of NodeBB core eventually.
Yeah, this is one of my goals, a feed page. Its actually been in the design document I built for the Persona theme but one step at a time 
EDIT: kind of hard to believe that persona has been out for so many months. Barely even half of what I originally designed on FW has made it in so far. For example, there's an "easter egg" currently on live (mobile) that we're testing out at the moment, if you can find it 
@julian So, now there's a setting that prevents chats from getting to you unless you follow that user trying to chat with you? 
