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What exactly happen when users Follow a site
I read many articles about what happens when we follow a site in sharepoint online, i found those main 2 benefits:- 1. The sites will appear under the "Following" section on the SharePoint home page...
Thuyavan nailed it, it's basically mostly used for having short links to sites when browsing via any app such as onedrive etc. and copy to move to etc. for followed sites. The reason your news still shows up after removing is it takes time for the index to update and remove those news articles. They may stay up as well because they are sites you've visited when following etc. since the news feed is tailored to sites relevant to you not just your followed sites.
If users Follow my site and it makes it a quick link for them. How do I convey to them that I have done some edits to that Sharepoint page?
- Hi - I had the same question.
- In addition to all the points mentioned above, when a site is followed, SharePoint Online sends email notifications on changes made to the site content. That's what we are noticing. Is there any way to limit/filter of the email notifications?
Found this article - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-your-sharepoint-email-notification-preferences-5bd63d8a-d43e-48cc-82b3-03a7687d5dc4?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
but it does not say anything about content changes on site pages...
