I did the following and it is working for me (Elgg 1.8.1): - Ignored step 5, since I have no such directory either (mod/thewire/views/default/thewire/forms) - followed the instructions in a comment to the post you referred...

I think Cerceau makes a good point. Jane Hart is a huge influencer both on the educational and on the training areas and she has promoted Elgg a lot. The list results from the voting of users, so it will probably reflect what Trajan says....

I might be getting it wrong, but I think there are some problems with these notions of "friends" and "friends of" in Elgg. These relatioships are not reciprocal, and they could, for the sake of clarity, be understood as "following" (the people whose...