Introducing Activity Feed Improvements, Including Member Status Updates

Today we're pleased to release a set of improvements to the Activity Feed feature on Ning 3.0 networks.

The updated Activity Feed allows members to view older items in the feed, and to view new items that have appeared since they loaded the page.

We've expanded the capabilities of Social Feeds so that you can have items automatically added to the Activity Feed via RSS and Twitter.

We've added a status feature, so that your members can leave status updates in the feed, and we've added link parsing for status updates, so that if a member adds a link, for example, to YouTube, the video is embedded and playable directly in the feed. Link parsing and embedding works with a wide variety of sites, including: YouTube, Dailymotion, Vine, Flickr video, Twitter, Soundcloud and Bandcamp. We'll also provide a preview of content for any link to a site that supports the OpenGraph standard.

With this release, members can also comment on status updates and individual photos directly in the feed.

In order to see and activate the new options that are available for the Activity Feed, head to the Activity Feed Settings page in the Social Site Manager.

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ceri shaw July 29, 2014 at 4:06pm

Looks like further tweeking is happening....just lost status updates and more button functionality again....hope they get this nailed down soon :)
- ceri shaw > ceri shaw July 29, 2014 at 4:36pm
  
  And they're back.....this is fun!
  - ceri shaw > ceri shaw July 29, 2014 at 4:42pm
    
    Gone again...I give up.
    - ceri shaw > ceri shaw July 29, 2014 at 5:43pm
      
      Tab container issue resolved for now....fingers crossed it's permanent this time......feed still not working :(
    - Donna MacShoe > ceri shaw July 29, 2014 at 4:47pm
      
      But wait.......if you act now.....you'll receive......(as the commercial goes)
ceri shaw July 29, 2014 at 4:02pm

Also we need the post to Facebook and Post to Twitter buttons back! The 3.0 feed still doesn't have all the features 2.0 has.
Strumelia July 29, 2014 at 4:01pm

Hopefully it's just temporary, but everything is loading extremely slowly on Creators for me now- the MORE button is working but takes forever (like 15-20 seconds), as does any page refresh or going to the Next page in a thread, going to profile pages, clicking to see me Friend List, clicking to see the "new items" in the activity feed, etc etc.
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  - Strumelia July 29, 2014 at 4:09pm
    
    Hey John, maybe Ning will take the next four months now to develop an update to the update to the activity feed.
ceri shaw July 29, 2014 at 3:52pm

One minor problem....status updates appear to be posting twice????
soaringeagle July 29, 2014 at 3:44pm

guys muh of what you see as not working maybe server instability

thouvgh the server issues are probably related to the update

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