Your improved Activity Feed: Now Live

[Nick Barr]

Want to see what it looks like? Read the Help Center article.

I'm excited to announce that the new Activity Feed, which we've previously talked about here and here, is set to go live early next week.

Here's a recap of everything that's in this release:

• Members can post a Status from the Main Page
• Members can comment and like photos, videos, blog posts, and statuses inline from the Activity Feed
• The Activity Feed has a cleaner UI that makes it easier for members to interact with content in the feed
• Videos are playable inline from the Activity Feed, and photo thumbnails are larger

Please note that all of these changes will automatically take effect on your Ning Network when this enhancement is released to everyone next week. There will not be a switch to revert back to the old version.

We know many of you are excited to get early access to this feature, and we'll be selectively enabling it on networks throughout the week. If you'd like early access, please fill out this form.

These improvements will increase engagement across the entire Ning Platform and will make the Activity Feed a much better feature. We've already heard a lot of great ideas around how we can make the Activity Feed even better, including an option to See More items, see new items that have come up since you loaded the page, and the option to add photos, videos, and other content directly to the Activity Feed. We're considering additional improvements based on all of your feedback and are excited to hear more feedback as we roll out the new Activity Feed!

[Chris]

Yes. Goes nuts. Flickers like a very flickery thing.

[Chris]

Can't figure it out - it doesn't seem to be onmouseover, might be onmousemove or a CSS expression for the :hover class? Either way it's odd.

[Claire]

yes! flickers on and off and you cant press it.. :-) and also ive just had a member join a group, and when you press the comment button on the activity feed you cant comment on the feed itself, it takes you to the group wall..

[Claire]

solution.. you have to keep clicking it like a mad thing till you catch it just right...

[Carlos Johnson]

Instead of trying to click on the actual "LIKE" button, just go to the the thumbs up image. it will stop.

[Nick Barr]

We'll look into it. I'm having trouble getting it to flicker — can you let us know what browser you're using? Might need to file a ticket so we can dive deeper into the issue.

 

Thanks!
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[Claire]

im using firefox 4

[RF]

I don't know if I can post this here and sorry if I can't cause this is a bit off topic I think, but, there is a new FF out, firefox 5, maybe upgrading would help? though honestly the new FF is not that great, :( I wish I could go back to the old one.

[Chris]

I'm on safari (latest) os x 10.6.7 also Chrome (latest)

 

It flickers as you move the mouse over the word "like". Thinking about it, it might be because "like" is shortened to "+1" so the mouse is suddenly no longer over it. It's worse if you use a long word like "promote" or "favourite".

 

I mentioned it yesterday too...

[Chris]

Also Firefox 4

[Chris]

And Flock 3.5.3

[Chris]

Also flickers on IE8 on XP