User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Followed pages - a new way to stay up-to-date on your favorite wiki pages/@comment-961279-20100627143532

Here's an update:

If you have a web browser like Opera that can block pictures on a web page, use that to block the Wikia Spotlight pictures. That reduces the amount of time it takes the Followed page to refresh. You should also turn off any widgets you are using so there's that much less for the server to rebuild each time you unfollow a page. Once you have the list the way you want it, you can turn the widgets back on.

The minus symbol that you click on to unfollow a page is finnicky. A lot of times it takes wiggling the mouse around to make it appear. This happens with Opera and Firefox. A list of pages with simple checkboxes might work better and would provide feature request #1 that I asked for earlier.

Bug report: If you are following a file or a page with a & in the name, you cannot remove it from your Followed pages page. You have to click on it to go to that page, then click on "Following" at the top of the page to unfollow it. I do not know if this applies to all special characters like that bug did with the Lightbox from earlier this year, but I can confirm that the ampersand will prevent you from unfollowing the page from your main list.

Related problem: If the page or file with the & in it has previously been deleted, you will have to create it again before you will get the option to unfollow it. If you're an admin, you can then delete the page right away, but regular users won't have that option.