Major Issue with the New Activity Feed

[AC]

Hello,

Just wondering if anyone else is also having the same issue as me. The Latest Activity Module is placed in the center column of my website and with the new changes that have been implemented, the thumbnails consisting of member profile images have now shifted into the 1st column (left most). 

My website URL: www.mumgum.com

Can someone please help ASAP to resolve this.

Thanks.... Arjun

[Eric Suesz]

Hey, Arjun! I can see it on your network, and it does seem odd. Do you think you would be able to send us a ticket from your Support link? We have a few bug reports we're collecting so our team can tackle them, and that will help us get it in our system so we can take a really close look at your network. We're working on those now, so if you can do that, that would be really helpful. Hope it's not too much of an inconvenience.

[Bùi Văn Hải]

I think NING should have a way for ning creators to customize numbers of words/ characters appear in each latest activity, and the size of the font...

[AC]

I was able to fix my issue by commenting out the following from my css code:

.xg_widget_main_index_index .xg_module_activity .feed-story {background: url(http://mumgum.net/icons/dottedsmall.png) repeat-x !important;    padding-top: 10px !important;}

So the issue seems to be fixed for now......however in the future its probably best practice that you allow ning plus and pro subscribers to test any feature modifications on their test network first......this would drastically reduce impact to live sites as there would be ample time to troubleshoot any issues that arise.

Your thoughts??

Thx..... Arjun

[Eric Suesz]

Hey, lima. I don't think they should work that way. Is it possible for you to submit a quick ticket about this?

[Eric Suesz]

Thank you!

[Salim]

This fixed mine:

 

.feed-story {
   margin-left: 0;
   padding-left: 58px;
}

 

BTW, i'm still using the old theme not design studio. Don't know if works with the new themes.

[Kyla Fairchild]

The old activity feed was perfect for us. The new one excerpts too much text from each comment and the type is too large. Is there a way to select to have it how is was before without the actual comments showing up in the feed? It now takes up way too much space on the home page.

The type is also too large on the headings in the activity feed. Is there a way to make them all small the way they were before?

 

On a separate note, we ended up with another problem with the way photos in featured blogs display on the home page at the same time the new activity feed showed up. Now the photos are showing up larger (too large) when featured, and the text won't wrap around the photos in the blog roll or when featured on the home page. The text extends out of the right hand corner of the photo.  What caused this to change and how do we get it back to how it was before?

In this screen shot below the text would have been in the space to the right of the photo before whatever you did today changed it.

 

[Franco Mercalli]

We are experiencing both problems reported by Kyla as well.

[Hugh]

I agree Kyla. It's ugly. Entries on new posts have up to 8 lines of text included + 5 further lines of info (heading, time, etc). That's 13 lines! Way too much. Replies appear to have four lines - less of an issue but still too much.

Also headings are different sizes for new posts and replies - yeuck!

So here's a clip of our LA feed ths AM:

 

 

Some entries appear to have a slightly squashed or different font. I don't have Chrome, but apparently our site now looks horrible on Chrome. I'm waiting for a screenshot. I'm sorry Ning, but you do give the impression that you let your developer boys tinker around and get the thing into the showroom without ever having taken it out of the garage beforehand.

[Hugh]

OK, so attached what Chrome is doing to us - seems to be adding grids and squeezing stuff like the block of 6 videos into the left most sub-column.

[Nick Barr]

Hi Hugh, sorry you're seeing issues here. Are you using Chrome on a Windows machine? I'm trying to reproduce the issue but haven't been able to so far. 

 

We'll keep trying but in the meantime your best bet is to open a ticket so our Advocacy team can investigate further. Thanks for your patience!

 

Nick

[Alexander]

Hugh, I may be wrong here, but I think the size of the font in the Activity Feed is related to the Design Studio theme. There may be a way of opting for a different font and smaller size in the Design Studio (Customize/General/Body Text).