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Following people

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You can follow people on GitHub Enterprise Server to receive notifications about their activity.

About followers on GitHub Enterprise Server

When you follow people, you'll see their public activity on your personal dashboard. For more information, see "About your personal dashboard."

You can unfollow someone if you do not wish to see their public activity on GitHub Enterprise Server.

Following a user on GitHub Enterprise Server

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
  2. Under the user's profile picture, click Follow.

Unfollowing a user on GitHub Enterprise Server

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
  2. Under the user's profile picture, click Unfollow.

Viewing followed users on GitHub Enterprise Server

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.

  2. Under the user's profile picture, click following.

    Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A link, labeled "9 following", is outlined in dark orange.

Viewing followers on GitHub Enterprise Server

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.

  2. Under the user's profile picture, click followers.

    Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A people icon and a link, labeled "8.4k followers", are outlined in dark orange.