Revise placement of 'Unfollow' on mobile width

[akutch]

The Problem

💡 Proposed solution

On creator posts, we remove Unfollow, and only leave option to Follow

Folks will be able to Unfollow others directly from their profile. This behavior will allow us to avoid accidental Unfollow clicks, as this is more of a destructive action than Follow IMO.

⭐ As a bonus, I propose anywhere a Creator username is listed, we make that link to their profile. Starting with the 'thread' page title.

Rough mockup

Don't mind the spacing

Following	Not following
Unfollow link is removed	Follow link remains (blur for privacy/no hurt feelings)

Supporting evidence 🕵️‍♀️

This causes a bit of user pain, as emphasized in this post:

[ItsAditya-xyz]

Agreed with making the thread tab a link to user's profile.

and as far as removal of unfollow button is concerned, i think if unfollow button is removed, the follow button should be removed as well otherwise the UI will look weird (imagine following a user from post and suddenly that button disappears).

or maybe we can wait till we have profile hover feature in frontend.

[tijno]

Haha great to see this change proposed.

I have had this exact issue since day 1.

Re proposals:

1 - yes link thread title to profile, but include some icon or formatting to make it clear its a link to a profile?
2 - IG has the follow link next to the profile name, where bitclout has the coin price. It shows the unfollow link in the ... menu - this seems sensible. Maybe the follow link can go below the profile image? I dont think it should be moved to the ... menu - following is too important an action.

[akutch]

Both great suggestions!

1 - note the underline on the username in the thread title
2 - pretend I do not follow maebeam in the "after" screenshot
3 - not included in the mockup, but Unfollow will be added to the ... menu

Before	After

Thoughts on this?

[tijno]

Just a consideration - swap coin price and follow/unfollow.

Price under name is more prominent and follow button to right of name is in line with user experience on IG where its to the right of the name too (with unfollow in the ... menu)

[maebeam]

I'd like to see a mock with coin price and follow swapped. Could look good

[akutch]

I’ll put that together this afternoon. Thanks!

[tijno]

@maebeam quick edit in browser to give you an idea.

[maebeam]

I was thinking coin price below the avatar