See where the people you follow read
Updated Nov 10, 2026
Show my followers when we read the same site lets the people you've approved as followers see what you read on a site while they're on it, and shows you the same about them. It sits under Keep my reading history and needs it on. If it's off for you, you don't see anyone else's reading either.
- Open Settings, turn on Keep my reading history, then Show my followers when we read the same site.
- Read as usual. An article counts after you've spent 10 seconds on it. Recording works with Annotate extension 0.10.0 or later.
- Exactly what people see is in What your followers can see.
Your controls:
- Hide this site and Hide this page in the rail stop a site or a page being recorded. Hidden sites are listed under Your hidden sites in Settings, where you can remove them.
- People you follow here in the rail shows which people you follow have read on the site you're on, and what they read.
- Pause for 1 hour stops recording for an hour.
- Turning Show my followers off hides all your reads from your followers at once, past ones too, and deletes nothing. Turning it back on only shares what you read from then on.
- News from people you follow, by email will send a short note in your reminders and on Fridays at 8am your time, only when there's something new. Coming soon. It needs Show my followers on.