[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Modify the way "Friends" are added (#3310)

[Tom Hughes]

Well there are two approaches to "making friends" in use - the facebook model that requires agreement and the twitter model which doesn't. Though I think even facebook has one way follows as well now.

We chose to go with the second model.

Friending on OSM doesn't really do anything anyway - it's entirely harmless to the other party (you in this case) because other than sending you a notification it doesn't change anything for you.

All it really does is "bookmark" somebody so that they are included in a list of people that you can narrow down the trace and changeset views to just those people.

Probably the real answer is that we just shouldn't send notifications, and should maybe rename the feature as "follow" rather than "friend" to better reflect what it really does.

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