Did the "FOLLOWED" symbol change color? If so, why?

Do the same thing with the "like" statistic.

Looking at the EOS forum, in the 5D4 thread, the top "like" has 66 likes!
(and wow is this a GREAT way to browse for amazing images!)

Say what one wants about the "like" feature, the members at POTN have very good taste. Being able to see an entire threads "like" ranking will take you to the most amazing posts in very short order.

Yes, the Like feature can be helpful, but I find it also killed a lot of the interaction. Take the WWPW thread. Now people mostly Like images instead of saying nice things about it and it is killing the thread. Before we had a Like button we all would comment. Now somebody posts an image and it is liked a few times but nobody comments. I'm no better. But it's sad. The thread was a lot more alive in the past. I miss the interaction and feel it as a loss.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #18630550
I wouldn't ever read a manual, either.

What I prefer is something that isn't done much any more.

I would like it if everything clickable said, "CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO POSTED" or, "CLICK HERE TO SEE YOUR POSTS TO THIS THREAD".

Or even a generic "CLICK HERE FOR MORE OPTIONS" or "CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION" would be very helpful. . And I'm not just talking about POTN - I am talking about every site everywhere.

It's mostly about screen estate usage and also about the "importance" of the feature. If all items would have text link "click here for like statistics" and you would really use it couple of times a day max, it would be really annoying to have that text there all the time. But notifications etc need to be in text in my opinion, as they are important and updating information.

There are more clickable items that you may not know (no one reads changelog posts ):

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In page like https://photography-on-the.net …hread.php?t=828​679&page=2 you can see just over the pagination links an image loader progress info. When the page has fully loaded it says

"27/27 photos loaded. 6,163 posts, 411 pages"

Click that "27/27 photos loaded". You'll get a mini image browser on bottom left of page, which shows thumbnails of all images (embedded) on page. It was initially meant for mods to quickly see if there are any broken images on page, but there is more:

If you click a thumb in that list, the page jumps to that image.
If you click a thumb 1 and then do CTRL+SPACE you get to the next image on page.
There is a "Next Page" button, too.
If there are no images on page, the popup is not shown.
After initially opened, the popup opens automatically in all pages with images, until you close it - then it stays off until activated again. The open/close status is stored in a cookie, so it is for each browser separately.

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You can click "FF" also in notifications popup to un-follow a thread. You can click "FF" or "FOLLOWED" in search result list (title search) to un-follow a thread (there is a dialog display bug there if the thread is on top of list).

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In member page https://photography-on-the.net/forum/member.p​hp you can click paragraph titles"Latest Threads", "Latest Posts", "Most Liked Posts", "What Else Goes on" to get all pages displayed in one popup.

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In member page like https://photography-on-the.net/forum/member.p​hp?m=3, click the "Best of trophy" to get in a member gallery with only best of images.

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If you are in a gear gallery like https://photography-on-the.net …y.php?camera=83​8&lens=928 and you click a thumb, there is gallery link of top of the image you arrive to.

VIEW NEXT in gallery "Canon EOS 70D with Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary"

If you click VIEW NEXT, you'll get the next image in that gear gallery.
If you click "Canon EOS 70D with Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary" You'll get back to that gallery index page.
After you have clicked such thread page image link once, the next pages will have URL which you can bookmark or share, with that gear gallery info like
https://photography-on-the.net …63257&camera=83​8&lens=928

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In any thread page with a gallery image, like https://photography-on-the.net …595&mg=383088&i​=i39735990 there is a "next photo" link on right side of the gallery browser.
In that gallery browser there is a settings menu (three lines, the usual menu icon), and the text "XXXX in gallery" next to it is a link to that member's gallery page.

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In gear page like https://photography-on-the.net/forum/gearinde​x.php?id=274 you can click each rating item (title or the bar) for detailed info. In that detailed info you can get more detail by clicking each black value bar.

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In notifications popup, each forum name is a link to the followed+own page for only that forum.

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In thread pages, when you see a Best of trophy, like https://photography-on-the.net …24&mg=330198&i=​i259472531, click that for a mini prev/next (newer/older) browser for Best of gallery.

Pekka wrote in post #18630598
There are more clickable items that you may not know (no one reads changelog posts ):

I tried to read it a couple of days ago. . I really did!

But that kind of reading requires me to actually have my brain working and to force it to think about each sentence. . I just don't have the mental discipline to do that.

It's like reading instruction manuals for things, or following along with tutorials ...... if I can't just "get" something with a cursory initial effort, it just doesn't ever happen. . I guess that's the difference between me and people who are real successful - they make their brains think until they figure something out, and I just let my brain wander off to wherever it likes to go.

When you break things up the way you did here, it really helps.

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CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18630547
This is beyond awesome! Maybe "Awesomer"

Don't tell me that a Type T-2000 admin didn't know about this feature! Are you feeling all right? Do you need an upgrade to T-2000.1?

Tom Reichner wrote in post #18630550
I wouldn't ever read a manual, either. . . .

Several years ago a lot of these informative "CLICK HERE FOR ________ " buttons started to disappear and they were replaced with weird little graphics and symbols that don't tell me anything (like three dots in a row - what the hell is that???). . How in the freaking hell am I supposed to know to click there? . And even if I know to click there, how am I supposed to know what will pop up before clicking?.

Not reading manuals may possibly have something to do with your professed difficulty using technology. A lot of electronic stuff has its own internal logic, which flows from the way the designers thought and doesn't necessarily match the way I think. As a result, I don't find it intuitive. Studying the manual can help with such mismatches. "Aha, they put this thing in that menu because they think of it as a subcategory of that other thing."

Three dots (an ellipsis) have the same meaning as when they appear in text. They mean "There's more. Something is left out." Click to see whatever was left out. The dots are sometimes used as a way of providing a menu in outline form but showing only the first level of the outline; you click to get an item at the next level. You don't know what will pop up before clicking. (If you knew, you wouldn't need to click.) You know what kind of thing will pop up but not the exact items.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #18630587
Yes, the Like feature can be helpful, but I find it also killed a lot of the interaction. Take the WWPW thread. Now people mostly Like images instead of saying nice things about it and it is killing the thread.

I know. Well, I don't believe it's really killing the thread. There are still comments and many contributions.