How Unfollow and Remove Work

This page explains how Unfollow and Remove work on Front Page and how these actions affect the connection between two users.

Users can manage their community connections infrom twoother ways:users’ profile pages.

Mutual Community Connection:

• Unfollow – Stop seeing another user’s posts in your feed.
• Remove – Remove someone from your followers list or leave a community connection.

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Before Any Action

Before any action is taken:

• User A follows User B ✅
• User B follows User A ✅

Both users are mutualpart followers and can seeof each other’s posts depending on their account privacy settings.

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Scenario 1 – Viewing a User Profile

Users can open another user's profile to view their posts and access connection options.

communities.

Figure 1: User Profile Page

This figure shows a user's profile page where posts, photos, and other content are displayed. From this page, users can interact with the profile and access additional options such as follow settings.

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Scenario 2 – Unfollow a User

Unfollow allows a user to stop following another user’s community.

Example:

User A follows User B.

If User A choosesClicks Unfollow on User B’s profile:

Result:

• User A will no longer follow User B.
• User A will stop seeing User B’s posts in:
  • Home/Vista feed
  • Community feed
  • Recent Posts
  • Loss access to unfollowCreating posts in User B’s community
• User A can still view User B’s Public posts from User B’s profile page.
• User B, will still follow User A if they canpreviously dojoined soUser A’s community.
• User B is removed from theUser profileA’s menu.
  Joined Community list.
• User A is removed from User B’s My Community list.
• No notification is sent to User B.
  

Steps:

1. Go toOpen the other user’s profile pagepage.
2. Click or tap the 3-dot ellipses menu.
3. Click theor three-dot menu (⋮).
4. Selecttap Unfollow.

Figure 2: Unfollow Option

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Result

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Scenario 3 – Leaving a Community / Removing a Connection

If a user decides to leave a community or remove a connection, a confirmation message will appear.

Steps:

1. SelectOpen the Leaveuser’s Communityprofile or Remove option.
2. A confirmation dialog appears.page.
3. Click or tap the Confirm3-dot ellipses menu.
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4. Click proceed.or tap Remove.

Figure 3: Leave Community Confirmation

This figure shows the confirmation dialog that appears when a user chooses to leave a community. The user must confirm the action before the connection is removed.

Result

• The connection between the users is removed.

What Happens

• The action happens without sending a notification to the other user.
• Access to content will depend on the privacy settings of the account.