Apologies for clogging up a forum post, but I’ve been told by 5 people that they are no longer getting my observations on their feed (or are not getting the email with my recent observations). I’ve searched through the bug reports, but I can’t seem to find a similar experience.
One person even asked “Why did you mute me?!?” I sure don’t think that I did!
I’ve looked through my ‘followers list’ and the 5 people that have reached out to me are still on my list: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/sambiology/followers
I don’t follow Sam, but it does seem as if there may be an issue with notifications over the last few weeks. I messaged at least one user I had tagged and they claimed they had not received a notification of the tag. Unfortunately, I don’t have more concrete evidence, but would be interested to hear if there were any discoveries on this issue.
This should be fixed, at least for Sam’s case and ones like it. It had to do with our not handling Sam’s hiding of someone else’s content well and thus “hid” his content from his followers. Since only curators, staff, and site admins can hide content, it should only have potentially affected followers.
@rymcdaniel since you’re not a curator I don’t think this is what caused the issue you reported.