New Follower Notification


For a while I haven't seen any 'New Follower' notifications even though the number of followers on the Contacts page has gone slightly up. Is there a setting I may have accidentally turned off? I can't find any. I am using an account type 'Personal', sub type 'Soapbox' (so follow requests are automatically accepted and not shown) and the server is on the stable version 2022.10.

Do these notifications work for others?

Is there a way to sort the followers on the Contacts page with the newest first, instead of alphabetically? That would help too.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan Thanks for confirming that it is an issue on my side. I'll try some different settings, see what happens. I just did a test with unfollowing/following from another server (Friendica and Pleroma) and no notification appeared.

When I observe the logs on a quieter Friendica server and do the unfollow/follow on an account there, all seems normal and no notification appears. The only slightly related remark is an INFO level "Not an item based notification, quitting". But that is before the NOTICE log message that successfully processes the follow.

I'll see if I can invent some other settings to try. For now I assume that my tests are unsuccessful because these are already existing profiles/contacts.

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