general questions Pattern of the follower window?

[Snow 7,009]

 Just to satisfy my curiosity, I notice that when viewing the full list of followers it is in alphabetical order, but what of the window that is on everybody's profile?

 

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(first letters)
F, R, K, R
L, S, S, B
A, S, B R
(no way that is alphabetical right?)
some of those users haven't been on in months so I know it inst activity, I know it isn't brohoof or content count...

Mind you I do not have any problems with this, just wondering as the list never changes and I am really curious as to what pattern it is following?

[Rikifive 24,155]

All I know is that, it's kind of a mystery at the moment, unless the tech pony will check what the code tells.  

It's not the alphabetical order for sure. I've checked my followers and it seems, that it's not the member's id (sorted by the order of joining to the forums, i.e. the one displayed in the address bar, mine is 38649, for example. Yours is not far from mine as our date of joining is quite close- yours is 38841) either. My guess was the date of following, where it displays the first followers ever, though it seems to be not the case either.

Perhaps that's an other kind of ID, that the software gives to members.. but.. I have no idea.

By the way it was asked before, so perhaps you'll find some more information there.

 

[Ken 108]

In the past the follower list would be randomized before being displayed but that got lost with the update. Now, i'm not even sure myself. I guessed its the order in which they followed the user either from newest to oldest or vice versa, but i never checked to confirm it.

This was something i wanted to fix before being rudely interrupted by health issues and not being able to do much. I'll probably fix it in the next few days or even sooner.