question about Mastodon UI/UX for follow requests 

I'm debating creating a feature request issue for how follow requests work with notifications on Mastodon. This post is just wanting to get opinions of if this is working well or not as-is.

When someone requests to follow you who you do not follow, their request shows up as a small notification near the bottom of the sidebar under Follow requests.

When you are already following someone and they request to follow you, it shows up as a full notification for you. That is much more obvious and notable.

So I guess my thought is if it is better to unify the experience there and not make follow requests hard to notice, or if it's better to have them off to the side if you aren't following the other person already.

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re: question about Mastodon UI/UX for follow requests 

@david are you sure? I thought they'd changed it to always show in notifications, maybe the first one just fell out?

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re: question about Mastodon UI/UX for follow requests 

@noiob maybe? But this has always been the case for me and I just rarely noticed it since I didn't have to worry about follow requests much in the past

re: question about Mastodon UI/UX for follow requests 

@david @noiob i believe it is, for some unknown reason, a toggle

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