[FEEDBACK] Follow
Introducing Follow on the Hugging Face Hub
Probably the most requested feature ever: it's now possible to follow users on the Hub!
Your default home feed now aggregates the activity of everyone you follow in chronological order. To follow someone, use the follow button on their profile.
This will allow you to see their most recent public activity, such as pushing a new model, updating a dataset, creating a space, and any other activity.
Note that it's still possible to switch to your personal feed and see only your personal activity.
We think this feature will encourage more curiosity, collaboration, and fun among Hub users. And maybe even help you build new relationships along your ML journey.
Don't hesitate to share your feedback or any questions you might have :)
And guess how I ended up on this post! 😁
Hi,
Is there any way to follow orgs?
Is there any way to follow orgs?
Hi, not for now. As an alternative, you can use the "follow all" button in the org members modal.
Now you can follow an organization :)
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How about a badge for (org or personal account) followers count that we could add to a GitHub repo README and any other place we'd like ? Like there's "stargazers count", "pip install counts" and al.
@Aurelien-Morgan do you use https://shields.io/? or another type of badge?
How about a badge for (org or personal account) followers count that we could add to a GitHub repo README and any other place we'd like ? Like there's "stargazers count", "pip install counts" and al.
For individual users:
https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhuggingface.co%2Fapi%2Fusers%2F<YOUR_USERNAME>%2Foverview&query=%24.numFollowers&logo=huggingface&label=followers
Example:
Not sure about orgs though, since the API doesn't show follower count. You can get a list of followers but shields.io doesn't support parsing that API.
@julien-c , https://shields.io/, yes. @mrfakename , thanks for the info. Didn't know. I'd love to have an org followers counter though. I have more follower on https://hf.co/retrain-pipelines than on my personal. And hope to boost that org account in the near future so, if I could advertise that number on github, it would look super cool.
In order for org follows on shields you would probably either need a proxy server to count the JSON or have HF add follower count to their organizations API
@Aurelien-Morgan
@mrfakename
thanks for the suggestion! We've updated the organization endpoint to return numFollowers as well: https://huggingface.co/api/organizations/huggingface/overview
Here is how to get a badge for huggingface organization:
Looking forward to see these badges popping out in projects!
Other examples of badges for repos (here for QwQ-32B):
Ok, you're on a sprinting spree
@Wauplin
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Those are gonna spread like crazy, no doubt.
If you're interested in numbers of Follows (both orgs and users), you might also like this Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/julien-c/follow-history
Here's a graph that shows DeepSeek is doing something cool 😁
Can you Explain to me what's going on?
@Wauplin
Any way to make it work with private repos (models & datasets) ?
I think it would be nice for corporate orgs (with access control) where teams like each-others assets.
@Wauplin
Any way to make it work with private repos (models & datasets) ?
I think it would be nice for corporate orgs (with access control) where teams like each-others assets.
You can pass an access token to the API (if running privately) but if the badge was exposed publicly it would leak your token.
What I suspected. Thanks.
Another potential option would be setting up a proxy server that passes a token to the HF API and exposes only the likes/follows publicly, but it would be a lot of work
indeed. not an option either.
Thought you
@Wauplin
may like to know that I'm gonna put your latest changes in that matter to good use with the upcoming release of retrain-pipelines
(grateful)