Unable to "Trust" but not "Follow" another user

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Platform: Windows 11

App version number, if a mobile app issue:

Browser, if a website issue: Chrome (current)

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:

Account settings → Relationships

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Description of problem:

Step 1: Follow a user from their profile page.

Step 2: Go to Account settings → Relationships. Both “Follow” and “Trust …” are checked for that user.

Step 3: Uncheck “Follow”. “Trust …” is also automatically unchecked! Re-check “Trust”. “Follow” is now also rechecked! Not what I expected since I have previously managed to uncheck “Follow” without changing “Trust”.

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I’m not seeing that:

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I have to manually check the “Trust with hidden coordinates” box, which is expected. Turning on trust should be a specific intentional act.

I’m not sure I’ve ever tried to unfollow someone who I trusted. I’m pretty sure we haven’t made any changes to how following and trusting work in a long time.

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I have this in my Relationship settings and it works.

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Currently, even if only “Follow” is checked when I go to that page, I can’t unset “Follow” after checking “Trust”. Doing that also unchecks “Trust” again.

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In addition to the above, even when I do check either box, the “Save Settings” button does not become active.

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I trusted someone the other day and can verify that the “Save Settings” box didn’t become active, but the trust worked anyways and has been saved to my profile. I didn’t mess with following the user, so I can’t comment on that.

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Yes, trusting/following should not trigger the Save Settings button to become active. It just happens automatically.

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After thought: It appears that one of the four possible combinations is not allowed, i.e. Follow:false, Trust: true but I already have this combination for two “friends”.

The code is so difficult to follow that I can’t find where this logic is implemented.

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I am having the same problem. So is it possible to ‘trust’ somebody you don’t follow? For example, I don’t want to follow somebody and get updates of every observation they post, but I want to trust them to see obscured coordinates of mine.

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No, it’s not possible but that’s intended. It’s not a bug.

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That can’t be correct as I’ve managed to achieve that for two “friends”. See the image in my earlier post.

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I think I’ve found out how it can be done, currently.

  1. Go to user’s profile page.
  2. Follow them
  3. Go to Relationships in your Account Settings and trust the user
  4. Go back to the user’s profile page and unfollow them
  5. Go back to your relationships page and see that you’re not following but still trusting them
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That worked, thank you.
Perhaps the solution should be updated?

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Maybe, though since staff noted this isn’t intended behavior maybe they want to change this functionality? I personally could see a use for trusting but not following, so I would prefer this workaround to still exist (it seems like only users wanting to use it would fine it and it wouldn’t lead to much confusion).