Cafe Announcements 📣 Testing new feature: Social Feed

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[MikeMorrell]

Just got back to testing the 'social feed' feature after a couple of weeks and I got confused (which I didn't at first!).

The source of my confusion? The difference (in icons) between the 'social feed banner' and the 'social feed button'

Banner

Button

So with the forgetfulness of a 71-year old after a 3 week break, I clicked (in any thread) on the 'banner icon', expecting my 'view' to change into 'social media feed view'. Of course the 'banner icon' led me to somewhere completely different.

So my main tip is to change the 'banner icon' to match the 'button icon'.

My (limited) experience so far is that the 'social media' (nested) feed is a great option for threads that are 'nested' (responses to responses).

Mike

 

[Pete Thomas]

Just got back to testing the 'social feed' feature after a couple of weeks and I got confused (which I didn't at first!).

The source of my confusion? The difference (in icons) between the 'social feed banner' and the 'social feed button'

Banner
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Button
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So with the forgetfulness of a 71-year old after a 3 week break, I clicked (in any thread) on the 'banner icon', expecting my 'view' to change into 'social media feed view'. Of course the 'banner icon' led me to somewhere completely different.

So my main tip is to change the 'banner icon' to match the 'button icon'.

My (limited) experience so far is that the 'social media' (nested) feed is a great option for threads that are 'nested' (responses to responses).

Mike

Yes, the logo (that was) in the banner and navigation was my own. I hadn't even noticed that the tab (by default) had the font awesome stream icon. So I have kept that there(as people maybe be more familar with a stock icon rather tyhan my own creation).

I had actually put it on my todo list to change the navigation icon to the stock font awesome stream but hadn't got rount to it until you pointed out the inconsistency. So I've now done it hopefully

 

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[Pete Thomas]

I did have the impression that notifications weren't quite working for posts via the social view...

I think this may have been the case and should now be fixed.

 

[Pete Thomas]

For anyone who is interested in using the social, it is now available as a preference in your user account. This means that you can choose to view all posts/threads as a social feed view.

Previously to view social feeds you had to click on the menu icon. If you choose SF as a preference all thread or post links, e.g. forums, alerts and emails ought to open in social view. You can still revert to classic view as a preference and go to classic view temporarily via the button on a thread.

If interested please note that this is a beta version so may not yet have all functions available and there may be a bug or two, in which case please report here.