Cannot view following activity on the home page.

Lol someone else reported this months ago and no replies by any staff. Wonderful.

Does this happen with different browsers as well? And if you have any add-ons/plug-ins installed, have you tried disabling them to see if that fixes the problem?

It's a server issue. I don't know how the backend works for this place, but I'm guessing the browser requests for the following activity feed keep timing out so it falls back to the global activity feed as a fail safe.

Just commenting for added visibility, as I've already shared this in the discord server but might help with further testing by affected users. I've been experiencing this issue intermittently for years, and from what I've been able to test, I can make the following assumptions:

• The issue is account-based. When it has been occurring, it will trigger on any device I test with my account, regardless of browser or network configuration. When confirming the issue is occurring on this account, if I log into a secondary test account, the issue is not present there.
• During typical usage (for me), a global feed request takes less than a second to fetch, where as a following feed request takes around 6-8 seconds to fetch. Once a feed is loaded, an automatic refresh of either feed takes less than a second to fetch in the vast majority of instances.
• The fallback to loading the global feed instead of the following feed appears to occur whenever the following feed request takes longer than 10 seconds to fulfill, with the full follow-feed request, time-out, and subsequent fallback global-feed request taking a total of almost exactly 10.36s nearly every single time.

I really hope this can be remedied sometime soon. It seems to be getting much more frequent & longer-lasting in recent weeks than ever before, and it's really been taking a toll on my ability to use the social features of the site. No offence to y'all out there, but global just ain't for me.

anyone found a solution to this? global is just too overwhelming its unusable

Same.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Same for me

i've been getting the same behaviour here for the past week or so when it used to be much less common in my experience, though the fact that it happens at all should be enough of a concern. it's more likely for me to be met with the global feed instead of the following feed nowadays, which kills my experience as a heavy user of the following feed

Echoing others. Happens basically daily at this point. Please fix~.

Been having this for ages, no clue what's up.

The feed is so broken for me. Takes 10-15 seconds just to load the feed and then it's on global 75% of the time. Been happening daily for a couple weeks now and seems to get worse by the day. Happens both on mobile, desktop, and different browsers.

I started having this issue this week, I can no longer see the activity feed of the people I follow. I've been using this site for years without issue, so I also don't know what changed. I'm not using any new browser extensions.

EDIT: sometimes it works again, sometimes it doesn't. What seems to help is to filter on list progress only.

Same here for a quite some time. Website struggles a lot to load the following feed. Sometimes loads, sometimes not and then switches to global. If loads it usually will switch again to global anyway after a while because it tries to refresh feed in the background and fails, which is frustrating.

Just started happening to me, it's really annoying

unfortunately, gotta ditto!! this is my fav site & i love my homies...if there's anything i could do on my end to help fix it, LMK..WAUGH!! this is so sad

I miss my old friends in the following tab

The "search bug" isn't even that bad, this breaks the homepage experience completely.

This is now completely broken for me. Months of this issue now tried for last 15mins to click on following. Just reverts to global. So Anilist is back to being just a backup list. It seems quite clear this isn't going to be fixed anytime soon or at all since it only seems to affect a small ish number.

Same here! The following page is not working properly on PC or mobile!! is really sad that i can like my friends post :c

I've got the same issue, it takes multiple attempts to see my following page

i had a similar problem a few days back, i could switch to the following tab but it was empty, no posts not even my updates showing up

I’ve been having this issue for a few weeks after using the site for years with no issue. I’m only able to get my following tab to load maybe once every other day at this point. It’s affecting my enjoyment of the site, I hope it’s fixed asap.

been having this issue for a week or so now, using firefox on macos and windows

Same issue happening to me, the only way it worked in the phone app (for me) was to scroll down to AniList.co, tap the three dots and tap "open in browser" then after that on the three dots again click desktop site. I stumbled upon it unintentionally, it's not convenient but works if you're desperate, hope it works for whoever is reading this
Ps. The browser I used was chrome

Same I’ve tried everything and it’s still not working

Seems like they fixed it? At least for me it's landing on following by default.

alas still happening :(

At this point I've cancelled my dono until this is fixed. It's been happening off and on for the last few months but I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen my following feed in the last week. Disabling add-ons, trying other browsers/devices, etc. hasn't worked and it seems like it's getting worse. No desire to see the global feed at all, just want to see what my mutuals are up to... Hope this gets fixed soon but it doesn't look like it will be. :/

Same here. It's killing me!

How this isn't a pressing issue is beyond me.