Players want an opt-in friends view for event performance

Problem

A Featurebase submitter wants to add friends to their account so they can see how friends are doing in events and view their overall performance. Today the likely workaround is manually searching public profile/event-history surfaces, which is fragmented and may conflict with player privacy expectations.

Source: Featurebase post 6a1b70864c83df18ffb76d88 (Friends Add) by Justin T, 2026-05-30, 1 upvote: https://cardeio.featurebase.app/p/friends-add

Product Skepticism Notes

• Actual problem: players lack an opt-in way to follow friends' organized-play activity and performance.
• Evidence: one Featurebase request/upvote so far; needs more demand before backlog acceptance.
• Status quo: manual lookup through public player/profile/event-history surfaces.
• Decision needed: whether this is a one-way follow, mutual friend request, team/group surface, or no social graph; must align with HYD2-7399 privacy controls for player event history.
• Adjacent work: HYD2-7152 is a broader player social/team concept, but this request is narrower around personal friends and performance visibility.

90/10 Shape To Consider

A first slice could be an opt-in friends/following list that links to permitted player profile/history/performance surfaces, with no chat, UGC timeline, reactions, or publisher-controlled team features.

Success Criteria

• [ ] Product decides follow vs mutual-friend behavior and default discoverability.
• [ ] Players can add/remove friends or follows with clear consent rules.
• [ ] Friends/following view shows only profile, event history, and performance data the target player's privacy settings permit.
• [ ] The feature cannot bypass HYD2-7399 event-history privacy decisions or API filtering.
• [ ] UI copy makes clear what friend visibility grants and what remains private.
• [ ] Analytics/support tracking can distinguish friend-discovery demand from broader team/social-feature demand.