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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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          • Thanks Mike for verifying.

            People may not think this is a big deal but it is. I was one of the first to point out the lack of automatic follow even to one's own posts on ning 3, fat lot of good that has done as not enough people are obviously troubled by that to have it fixed,  and I am pointing out this shortcoming now as  a BIG deal. Without this feature my Activity Feed will be even more stagnant than it was before a ''More'' button. I would therefore choose to go back to the old Activity Feed over this new one if it is not going to be changed. And before anyone labels me as ''negative'' this is not negativity. This is honest assessment. I am very disappointed. this may actually be a deal breaker for me. The email notifications glitch is still not fixed 3 months after i first pointed it out. I am fed up.  I am a positive upbeat person, not a negative one. But sorry i cannot be in the sunshine group of people who only come on here to gives tips to fellow creators and praise to ning.

            • Okay one more piece of rant before I take a long walk.....

              (Moral of story...do NOT make an Irish woman angry!!!!)

              As it stands members could join and crap all over your site in Comment Walls on Groups and you would never know because 

              1)The Group does not get moved up in Group Hub so you cannot see there has been activity there..

              2)The fact of the comment having been made does not appear in any Latest Activity anywhere...(oh great!)

              and 3) our old friend, even if it is YOUR Group you or anyone else will still get no flipping email notification of any activity, and especially not on a Comment Wall (God forbid! where there is not even a ''Follow'' button option!!!)

              hahha! It's laughable! I mean how can we now even abide by the terms and conditions we agree to under Ning to moderate unsuitable content!? I could have porn posted all over my site in Comment Walls and never find out unless i do a scour. Hah! try that on a big site (which mine is not....but i am still not scouring) So this latest boo boo makes us all open to violating terms and conditions....

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              • As it stands members could join and crap all over your site in Comment Walls on Groups and you would never know because 

                1)The Group does not get moved up in Group Hub so you cannot see there has been activity there..

                2)The fact of the comment having been made does not appear in any Latest Activity anywhere...(oh great!)

                and 3) our old friend, even if it is YOUR Group you or anyone else will still get no flipping email notification of any activity, and especially not on a Comment Wall (God forbid! where there is not even a ''Follow'' button option!!!)

                hahha! It's laughable! I mean how can we now even abide by the terms and conditions we agree to under Ning to moderate unsuitable content!? I could have porn posted all over my site in Comment Walls and never find out unless i do a scour. Hah! try that on a big site (which mine is not....but i am still not scouring)

                You've raised some very good points, Anam.  This could be a big problem on many networks.  What's makes it even more problematic is that 3.0 does not have Moderator roles (and likely won't for a loooong time to come yet), so you couldn't have a team of mods watching over things who are able to detect and delete spam or other abusive content.  I'm also assuming 3.0 does not have the ability for you to appoint 'group moderators' or 'group leaders' for individual groups, like 2.0 has?

                • I don't know if Ning has moderators or not Strumelia to be honest, as i m still only getting the hang of things. But even if it did how can one moderate what one cannot SEE? I can go on my site right now and not have a clue if a comment was left on a comment wall in any one of 21 groups and this is on a tiny site. imagine on a big site?! But basically i do NOT UNDERSTAND why comments in Groups are not included on the feed. it seems mad to me. i am so frustrated about this. But I do thank you most sincerely for responding here as i feel like a bawling baby who everyone is blocking their ears to. This will not work at all the way it is. Mark my words. :(

                  • I think there has to be more to come on groups.  Groups are also not searchable on a Google Search box...so there are some tech issues as to the public roll of the groups, even if you do have them marked as public.

                    • The Comment Wall being hidden is the problem. It is not hidden by the way on Ning 2, plus comments there move the group in the same way as new discussions added on Ning 2. I don't get it, why it is not an option to add it. A lot of activity takes place on Comment walls for me....but i get it that it is not affecting many people here and so that puts me in my lonely invidious position. Ah well. C'est la vie :)

                      And by the by Comments one makes on Comment Walls in Groups do not even show up in one's own 'My Activity' tab on one's own page, so they are truly invisible unless stumbled upon.

                    • its just the comment wall that is hidden forums photos etc works fine in the main activity feeds ,check your group settings to see if its set on private that may solve your problem

                    • I am honestly glad to see that everyone else is pleased. i am terribly disappointed with comments on Groups  being hidden. I have asked Ning in a ticket to change the options in settings. If they don't help out here (and they have not responded yet) i will archive my site content to my wordpress site and close up. It is just not feasible for me. I am quite sad.

  • New update works good now. Thanks for working the bugs out...time for some CSS tweaks ;)

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      • rss feeds might take a lil whike to update im thinking

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