User Count Missmatch

[lordmatt]

Quick summary

When I call Activitypub\Collection\Followers::get_all_followers() I get 196 rows.
The followers tab for the blog shows 9 followers; blog only is set.

That's a massive difference.

The bonus followers appear to be via friendica.

Site owner impact

More than 60% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Minor

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No revenue impact

[lordmatt]

The issue came to light as I call Activitypub\Collection\Followers::get_all_followers() and users to get a total count to display on the sidebar. There's a huge block of no avatar members not accounted for anywhere else: you can see that here: https://endless-rooms.isbrill.com/

[pfefferle]

This is a deprecated function, the function you should use instead is Actors::get_all (see the phpdoc). These functions are not meant to be used to show a users followers though. Actors::get_all returns all actors that are known to the blog, including @-mentions, replies, followers & followings.

The function you should use instead is: Followers::get_many( $user_id ).

[lordmatt]

After figuring out that Activitypub\Collection\Actors::get_all() returns a blog object with a private id of 0, I guessed that Activitypub\Collection\Followers::get_many( 0 ) was what I wanted, and it did indeed give me the blog followers.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.