OK, this is really stupid, and lots of other people have big-deal things that they want to see changed, and I get that.
But what I really hate, what I really really hate, is when I'm not sure if I'm following someone, and I go to their main page, and it shows me the "follow" button and I hit it and it unfollows them, because there's a little lag in updating the button and I didn't wait long enough.
And then two minutes later I see it in my Steemworld notifications and go "that's not what I meant to do" and go back and follow them again.
And every time I do I think about whether they get follow/unfollow notifications and what they think I'm trying to do over here.
I've run into that issue, didn't know if it was just me or if others had encountered it.
I think if Steemit did give notifications of follows and unfollows, a lot of mindsets on the platform would be different. Small things like being followed, likes, unfollows, etc. can easily uplift or break most people on the interwebs.
I'm actually surprised there isn't a rant tag.
It's #steem.
Funny...
Oh, and for what it's worth, probably switch to SteemPeak.com now before you get too used to Steemit. It's a new and much better front end, you see and do all the same things, but it has nice things like notifications.
I'm trying to switch but my old brain is really used to doing things here and resisting.
Thank you @tcpolymath for the SteamPeak recommendation.
Thanks for the heads up, I just bookmarked it to browse it a little later. Is SteemPeak created by the dev team for Steem, or is it just another service?
The dev team for Steem mostly builds the Steem blockchain. They also run Steemit but the blockchain is their focus. Every action you take here - posting, commenting, voting, managing SP - is a blockchain action. Steemit the website is just a way to display them.
There are other people who have built other ways to display the same blockchain, and SteemPeak is one of those. (So are busy.io, d.tube, and a bunch of others.) They're basically all skins for the same system.
Ah that makes more sense, thanks for the information, I appreciate it! I'll look into the various other skins you've mentioned and what their added benefits may be. :D
Funny...I have had that happen to me as well, and it drives me nuts...especially problematic due to my 'button' being partially obscured!?
Wow I thought I was the only one who experienced this. There was this one time that I pass through on one friend's account and his profile shows "follow" I pretty sure that I followed him then after few secs it shows that I unfollow him. Then I realized that it was because of the site's lag. I didn't mean to unfollow, i mean it was unintention but i still felt quite sad.
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