i wonder if someone already suggested this, but it would be so useful to be able to see the number of new posts from each person since last visit on the following view. sometimes someone posts 1 new thing but sometimes its 7 things and currently there's no way to tell... so despite being much easier to see new posts (especially by infrequent posters) its also easy to miss something
is that something that could be done with third party tools (tampermonkey or w/e) or would it be a full-on feature request?
I wrote this specifically looking to avoid making API calls, so there are a few caveats:
- All it does is detect that there's at least one new post using the information available. So no way to show how many posts have existed since then :<
- If the script has never "seen" the user you're following before, it avoids putting a dot next to them.1 As a result, people who you newly followed or who weren't loaded into the list previously won't show an unread dot.
- Detecting unread posts on refresh is liable to break if @staff sneezes in the "refresh" button's general direction. This isn't something that could be solved with the API, so much as React being React.
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It's either this or every "new" user has a dot. Maybe it'd be worth having that be an option? I'm not sure how (or if) Greasemonkey et al support that sort of thing.

) Namely, it wouldn't account for a post that was deleted; i.e. "-1 new posts."