Problem

People want to become members of a site, and site owners want a list of people who has followed.

We currently have a confusing situation where there is always a subscribe button at the top of every site.

Solution

Create a "Follow" button that replaces both Subscribe buttons.

The follow button:

Creates a contact for the site that you follow

Enable syncing subscription (desktop only)

Enable notifications (future)

Once following, your button now says "Following" and is a dropdown. The dropdown allows you to:

Toggle Syncing (desktop only)

Toggle notifications (future)

Unfollow - deletes contact

Everyone who has added the contact of an account will show up in the "People" tab for the site, visible from the top-level of the document.

For now, we will remove email functionality so the user doesn't have to input their email address again and again.

In a future project, we will enable email notifications for all sites that you follow, by default. After following, you may disable notifications.

In the future (not in this project), a site owner will have a setting for "open membership"

If the site is set to open membership, the button will say "Join"

If open membership, the list of followers will say "Members"

No backend changes, less than a week of frontend changes.