Activity Bar not updating

[annabanana311]

My Activity Bar on the side of my spotify is not updating. It used to show the recent listened-to tracks from the 3 friends I followed. Now, it seems stuck and is not updating. Each one of my friends have been sitting on one song for quite some time. And I know that they have been listening to other music; I see their activity on facebook.

Yes, I "follow" these people on spotify. I've tried restarting Spotify. I've tried "unfollowing" one of my friends and then re-"following" them, but to no avail. I loved being able to see what my friends were listening to, and now it's really annoying that their feed is not updating.

Thanks

[Taylor]

Hi, and welcome to the community!

As well as restarting spotify, Try a Clean reinstallation of it. It might just be a slight glitch.

Anthony 🙂

[annabanana311]

After deleting every spotify related file from my mac, I reinstalled it and the activity bar is now a bit fuller. I'll see if it continues to update. Thank you for your help!

[WilmaLaarman]

I have the same problem: a friend of mine, is a follower. He used to be able to see my activities, but now not anymore.
We tried everything to solve it:
He is marked as a "follower" on spotify. He tried restarting and reinstrallation of Spotify, tried "unfollowing" and then re-"following"  but to no avail. I would like to being able to let him see what I am listening to.

I follow him and I am able to see what he is listening too...

What should I of he do to make it possble for him to see my activities on spotify again?

[WilmaLaarman]

Problem is solved: one more time reinstallation of Spotify did work!!!

Happy again...

[WilmaLaarman]

And again the problem is here; my follower friend  is not able to see my activities again.
Reinstallation of spotify (again) did not work this time.

I follow this friend myself . On my computer I can follow my friends activities...

Please let me know how we can solve this!!!

Wilma

[Jamie]

WilmaLaarman - First off, please ask you friend to double check that he is following you, as this could be the reason why you are not appearing in his activity sidebar.

[WilmaLaarman]

I just asked my friend: and he double checked and confirmed that he is following me.
What can I or he do now?

[Jamie]

Next up, please open up your Preferences and ensure that 'Share my activity and what I listen to with my followers on Spotify' is checked.

[WilmaLaarman]

Checked!

[WilmaLaarman]

And again the activity bar is not updating.!!!! For days it remained the same.

So a friend I follow and I we both removed spotify and reinstalled it on our computers. That did not help. Today we removed and reinstalled again.

We checked we are followers, and follow...

I also don't see any activity of other people I folow.  The activity bar stays empty... 

How can we solve this problem now???

Wilma

[Peter__]

Hey guys 🙂 

Spotify social issues are being investigated by the team, since it seems to be a pretty common issue of late!

If you could add your details to this topic (operating system and Spotify version number (Help/Spotify > About)) I am sure they would be very grateful. 

Peter