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Following people

You can follow people on GitHub Enterprise Cloud to receive notifications about their activity and discover projects in their communities.

Who can use this feature?

Members of an enterprise with managed users can only follow other members of their enterprise.

About followers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud

When you follow people, you'll see their public activity on your personal dashboard. If someone you follow stars a public repository, GitHub Enterprise Cloud may recommend the repository to you. 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 Cloud.

Following a user on GitHub Enterprise Cloud

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

Unfollowing a user on GitHub Enterprise Cloud

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

Viewing followed users on GitHub Enterprise Cloud

  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 Cloud

  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.

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