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Search & Discovery

Closegram has a general user search (with filters) and a family of recommendation engines for surfacing new people to follow: "suggested users" (the simple "who to follow" list, with a "Followed by" mutual-connections label when someone you follow already follows them), "people you may know" (with match reasons), "similar users," trending users, nearby users, and an algorithm-selectable recommendation feed. The compact "Suggestions for you" strip on the Explore page lets you dismiss individual suggestions; its "See all" link opens a dedicated Discover people page with all of these grouped into full sections. This page also covers bulk relationship actions (following, unfollowing, blocking, or removing many users at once, plus bulk-processing follow requests) from Settings → Bulk actions.

Each property has its own checkbox marking whether that specific piece is fully implemented and functional end to end (frontend + backend) — update these yourself as work lands; this page won't overwrite them.

  • Search users by name/username, with filters
  • Interest-based suggestions — interestSuggestions matches accounts by shared interests (topped up with broader suggestions); interests are editable in Settings → Interests (updateInterests, user.interests)
  • Suggested users ("who to follow"), each card showing a "Followed by [name] + N others" label when applicable

Recommendations​

  • "People you may know" (mutual-connections match score and reasons)
  • Similar users (shared interests / activity similarity)
  • Trending users
  • Personalized recommended users (selectable algorithm)
  • Dismiss a suggestion (X button on the Explore page's recommendations strip)
  • Discover people page (/discover-people, reached via "See all") — recommended, similar, people-you-may-know, trending, and nearby users grouped into full-page sections
  • Hide yourself from other users' suggestions — Settings → Privacy → Show in Explore toggle (Account privacy page) now persists through the dedicated hideFromSuggestions/showInSuggestions mutations rather than the generic updatePrivacySettings field, so toggling it off also invalidates the caller's cached recommendation results immediately instead of only after the cache naturally expires

Bulk relationship actions​

  • Bulk follow / unfollow multiple users at once
  • Bulk block multiple users at once
  • Bulk remove followers
  • Bulk accept/reject follow requests
  • Bulk operation history/status/cancel (getBulkOperationHistory/getBulkOperationStatus/cancelBulkOperation) are now backed by a real bulk_operation table — each bulk action records its real counts and status. A live progress bar isn't needed since bulk actions run synchronously and report their result inline

Note: hashtag search and trending are a separate system — see Hashtags & Trending. The nearby-users section on the Discover people page reuses the same opt-in location data described in Location & Nearby, which remains the primary reference for that feature. Contact-based suggestions and "people you may know" sourced from imported contacts are covered in Contacts & Suggestions.

See the technical reference for GraphQL schemas, routes, source file links, and per-field wiring status.