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 god.. its showing life again...
still as buggy as crap though,,
nothing from Monday night to yesterday shows up when it came back. nothing posted today went into it. And there are still no fixzes to absence of Titles in feed. Oh flip. i was kinda hoping it was down for updates.
Both of my sites' Activity Feed is now completely blank. Is that because of this update? Is there a way for me to get it back? There was tons of valuable information in those feeds.
You won't lose it - it's a problem at Ning's end, not that they have acknowledged it. It will reappear at some stage by itself. Can't imagine it will be before 8am Pacific time, though....
Tim
Thanks, Tim. Appreciate it! Just wish they would say something it about it so I don't waste my time trying to figure out how to get it back.
Beth
maintenance until 2016 sorry to trouble you
My ticket to Ning...
My ticket (the second I've filed on activity feed) since migrating...
The best bit - the response - no acknowledgement - no apology - absolute joke
What gets to me and surely they should know this. they cant go home and leave things broken, we all live in different time zones and our networks are up and in use 24 hours a day..
The feed was down for at least 8 hours before they even knew about it.. and it was down for around 10 hours altogether and it was probably around 12 hours before anything started showing up on the ning status blog...
what would have happened if this happened friday night,
The support maintenance and checking on running systems on this evidence is worse than poor, its bordering on amateurish