Activity Feed Roundup!

[Nick Barr]

Hi all, with 60+ (!) pages of comments on our thread about the Activity Feed release, I know it can be tough for Creators to keep track of the latest news. So I wanted to send around this roundup.

 

Did you know:

As a Ning Creator, you have the ability to control what displays in the Latest Activity module. Don't want to show profile comments? Don't want the Status box? That's your call. To change the settings, just click "Edit" on the Activity module, and then click "Set what activity gets displayed."

Top bug reports:

Some reports of the Like Button flickering on hover in the Activity Feed.
This is now fixed!

Some reports of improper formatting on Blog & Forum Modules.
We're on it, look for a fix next week!

Comments on private profiles are visible on the Main Page.
We're on it, look for a fix next week!

Some reports of inconsistent font sizes on the Main Page.
We're investigating!

Top feature requests:

• We've heard the request for more control over how much text displays in the Activity Feed. We'll have an update about this soon!
• We also want to continue to strengthen the Activity Feed module. Our next step is to integrate the super-useful but rarely-used Quick Add dropdown into the Activity Feed, so members can add content like photos or blog posts directly from the Main Page. 
• Finally, we want to make the Status feature better by introducing notifications on comments, now that you're able to comment on Statuses. We're still figuring out the best experience here.

We'll have more updates in the coming days, so stay tuned!

[Anthony]

I think you left out one feature for the activity feed...We need more than 20 updates, for big site updates move fast. An option to see what took place in the last 24 hours would be suitable.

Maybe an invisible scroll bar which allows visitors to scroll back to the last 24 hour of updates.

[Sean Blackwell]

Great suggestion!

[Speed Racer]

or even a "see more" button

[EAM]

me likey!

[Casey Fritz]

I've been asking and others have been as well...I haven't seen one single reply from a ning rep on this question yet

[Nick Barr]

This is absolutely something we want to do, but also requires a good bit of work under the hood. It actually requires changing the way we fetch activity from your Ning Network.

 

It's on our radar, but not scheduled for the immediate future because we have quicker, higher priority features and improvements we want to get out.

 

Thanks!
Nick 

[Champion]

Nick, we really need this - it would be great if somehow it can make it from the radar to development. Users are already complaining that they miss so much. We need this.

[Spyro]

Nick, One more thing. When people comment on items would be great the comments to be visible in the homepage. At least the last 2 comments so other people can join. I mentioned previously but this reminds me sort of facebook style. 

 

BUG. (i think so) I still get a Favorite button on the homepage in Groups Activity, when someone joins a groups. However, I have disable the Favorite button on groups but it stills appears on the homepage.

 

Any Ideas?

[Chris]

The same is true for photos, it looks like the LA is ignoring what you've enabled and disabled liking on.

[Nick Barr]

Thanks, we'll investigate this.

[Chris]

Also Nick, disabling "liking" on status updates is missing in /main/likesettings/edit. I know most people will want it, but if you've using "promote" or something completely different it might not be appropriate for status updates.

[Agosthina]

Hey Nick,

 

I understand what you mean, but please see what you can do to move it faster.

 

Thank you!