Change Post.IsFollowing to a pointer and set to nil for responses to updates to Posts (#17774)

app/post.go

@@ -649,6 +649,11 @@ func (a *App) UpdatePost(c *request.Context, post *model.Post, safeUpdate bool)
 
 	rpost = a.PreparePostForClient(rpost, false, true)
 
+	// Ensure IsFollowing is nil since this updated post will be broadcast to all users
+	// and we don't want to have to populate it for every single user and broadcast to each
+	// individually.
+	rpost.IsFollowing = nil
+
 	message := model.NewWebSocketEvent(model.WEBSOCKET_EVENT_POST_EDITED, "", rpost.ChannelId, "", nil)
 	message.Add("post", rpost.ToJson())
 	a.Publish(message)

app/post_test.go

@@ -2080,7 +2080,7 @@ func TestCollapsedThreadFetch(t *testing.T) {
 		require.EqualValues(t, []string{user1.Id}, []string{l.Posts[postRoot.Id].Participants[0].Id})
 		require.Empty(t, l.Posts[postRoot.Id].Participants[0].Email)
 		require.NotZero(t, l.Posts[postRoot.Id].LastReplyAt)
-		require.True(t, l.Posts[postRoot.Id].IsFollowing)
+		require.True(t, *l.Posts[postRoot.Id].IsFollowing)
 
 		// try extended fetch
 		l, err = th.App.GetPostsForChannelAroundLastUnread(channel.Id, user1.Id, 10, 10, true, true, true)