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!

[Mike]

It does appear to affect font size across the board on your latest activity feed.  It seems to control the relative size that all fonts in this family use.  I have mine set to 14 which makes all of the text large enough to read as it was too small before.  If your LA is not in the main column and is in one of the skinny columns, you may have to use the CSS code below instead:

.activity-feed-skinny, .content-comment, .status-update {
      font-size: 14px;
}

 

[Mike]

Sorry, I don't.

[Kyle]

Thanks, Mike!

[Kyle]

Mike,

 

Have you noticed that the text for certain activity items is larger than others?  I have my feed in the center column and when people join a group or a blog is featured, the blog text or group description is posted to the activity feed.  This text is larger than when people comment on content.

 

Eric et al, is there a reason for this?  It looks messy with several different font sizes in the feed.

[Rev. O.M. Bastet]

It's in the skinny-right column version, too. Looks weird.

[Eric Suesz]

Late getting back to you, Kyle. Agreed. Still working on that one.

[Kyle]

Good to hear.  Thanks, Eric.

[Rev. O.M. Bastet]

Ditto. Glad to hear the font sizes will be consistent! In every display format/location of the LA. Thanks, Eric!

[Safire]

Love this!

 

Thank you!

[Eric Suesz]

Hey, Roberto. You should see it in the Features Layout section. Look for it on the left and drag it onto the area on your Main Page layout where you want it to appear.

[Chris]

Go to your main page and click the little "edit" immediately above the activity feed. Select more than zero items to be displayed. Then click "Set what activity gets displayed" and make sure some stuff is turned on. Then make some noise, wait up to 10 mins and see if anything appears.

[Eric Suesz]

Great! Glad to hear it.