Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-126761-20190715213037/@comment-28083312-20190717211258

If I may make an assumption, the follow view in Discussions was rather seriously broken due to an issue where every single post had to be loaded at once, so if you’ve followed 1,000 posts the follow view was essentially unusable, as it not only took ages it load that much content, but a page with that much stuff on it can easily crash any browser. For that reason my guess is that the follow view didn’t see much use, not because it was useless, but because it was broken.