# Showing activity from followed users in the sidebar

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-activity-from-followed-users-in-the-sidebar/240229>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** follow, sidebar\
**Created:** [September 27, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-activity-from-followed-users-in-the-sidebar/240229 "2022-09-27T19:57:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-activity-from-followed-users-in-the-sidebar/240229/2 "2022-09-27T21:05:46Z")

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I had this in mind with some earlier sidebar mockups — at one point we had a separate `Users` and `Groups` headings in the sidebar (the idea for V1 was that these would just be links to `/u` or `/g`).

 ![Screen Shot 2022-09-27 at 4.57.46 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/1/2/e12dcb14bd8d34f95629a1c2464395c209a8e2ec.png)

We’ve since consolidated and put these links under the Community section, but the idea was that these would eventually be extended by plugins to work similarly to the categories/tags sections.

So for “Users” we’d show the users you’re following, have a little count to show when they’ve posted content, and on click you’d see their new activity. We’d also have a `All following` link at the bottom to see the consolidated list (`/my/follow/feed`).

Personally I’d like a little more optional flexibility for follow notifications through this too — at the moment you get notified when someone you follow posts new content, but it would be nice to have the option to not get a full user-menu notification, but just a count in the sidebar.

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