[FIXED] [GALLERY] Followers & Followed People are gone/ Low Follower cap

I moved this to the bug forum. Could you please edit your first post and add the following info. Thanks

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:
Which language are you playing the game in? 
How often does the bug occur? 
What is your current game version number? 
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? 
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 
What happens when the bug occurs? 
What do you expect to see? 
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? 

@crinrict  I have added the info requested 

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.98.127.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them including kits
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Look at my gallery id. mrsr99tso It says I am following 9 simmers. It was a lot more than that but not near the 100 limit.
What happens when the bug occurs? When I go to try and follow them, I get the message I've reached the amount of people I can follow.
What do you expect to see? To be able to have the ability to follow my friends and for them to be able to follow me. The people I was following are no longer showing that I follow them
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. 5/30/23 and gallery maintenance

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There is an issue with the followers. I can't follow anyone and the people I was following no longer are there. Also the few followers that show up have asterisks on their name.

I just realized that the patch said "Gallery Newsfeed is not feeding anymore" I am assuming that is the issue. I just need to make sure that is what the problem is.

Thank you for making this bug report Ina. I'm having the exact same issues with my following number. I can thankfully still see most everyone I was following but I currently have 0 followers. It's taken me 7 years to grow a wonderful group of followers and friends in our gallery community and now, most of them have been removed from my account. I have had a few friends tell me that even though I can't see them in my following tab, they are still there and see when I share something. While I'm grateful that there are some still there even though it says 0, I know most are gone because my likes and download totals have dropped significantly. 

I've talked with many simmers now who are either struggling with a severe loss of people whom they can follow, a drastic loss of people who follow them or in some cases both issues are occurring. 

Also, concerning followers, while I do seem to have most everyone I was following still showing for me in my following list, I have one account that I'm now following that is completely unfamiliar to me. It's like the gallery randomly followed someone for me. I've heard this report from a couple of other gallery friends too.

Please fix this concern asap ~ 

Sincerely,

GLovely1 ~ Lisa

I have the same issue. I have 0 followers and a decreased number of people I follow. I'm not going to post anything new to the gallery until the issue is resolved. I really hope Maxis communicates with us. I'd like to know if they are aware, working on it, and have an approximate timeline. Even if they don't know how to fix it right now, it would be helpful to hear that they are working on it. 

I also have this issue. I am now only allowed to follow eight people.  Thinking the cap might have been seriously downgraded from the 100 it used to be, I took out six that aren't posting new content.  Now I am limited to two. 

Hi, since gallery finished the maintenance I just found out that my following list was gone. The worse thing is I can't follow any new creator...My internet connection is good and I can download creations from gallery. I've tried to recover the EA app, re-login the account, but nothing happend.