No dashboard activity feed?

parmenti posted 14th of January 2010 in Community Voice. 12 comments.

For all the great functionality that dolphin 7 has, I really can't believe that there is no activity feed in the dashboard. The spy module is simply not adequate and in fact I find the information provided there mostly useless. Where is the activity feed of the likes of facebook? Aren't activity feeds what are really helping social networks grow? When you log in you should immediately see what other members have been up to. photos added.. videos.. blogs.. marketplace listings.. events... basically everything. A good activity feed is really the only way to ensure that members are connected with less minimal effort on their part. I really hope a developer or boonex staff will chime in and let us know that development of this is on the way. I want to become a prime license holder but I don't think I can get myself to do so until this is implemented and implemented well. Dolphin 7 has a lot of potential but the likes of phpfox and social engine, among others, already have great activity feeds. You've made an attempt with the 'wall' feature but it has to be expanded and brought to the dashboard as well.

Please leave your comments.. I'd love to see the communities input on this.

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houstonlively•14th of January 2010

What would be the point of having an activity feed in two places? I don't get it.

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parmenti•14th of January 2010•to houstonlively

The activity feed on your profile only shows YOUR activity.. the activity feed in the dashboard shows ALL your friends OR the sites activity... drawing you in to conversations... peeking your interest on what other people are up to. Getting you involved in ideas and conversations you may have otherwise never seen. Do you use facebook? That's the number one reason facebook got where it is.. because they were the first to really have and master the activity feed. phpFoX is on the road to doing this see more

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Profesize•14th of January 2010

On Facebook you only see updates of friends right? I would think that getting your members to subscribe to the profiles that they want to keep updated on would be the best method, though I have to admit that I haven't really tested it out to the max.....but it might be what you are looking for.

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houstonlively•14th of January 2010

"Do you get the picture now? "

No. While I agree that the wall needs to evolve quite a bit, an activity feed in the dashboard makes no sense to me,

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CALTRADE•14th of January 2010

That seems like a good place for an activity feed to me. Where should the activity feed go?

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houstonlively•15th of January 2010

Forget everything I said. I'm having a brain malfunction today, I was thinking of an aggregate wall on the profile, but that won't work. It has to be two separate feeds, and the dashboard is where it should go.... although I think there could be a better name for dashboard.

So..... In a rare, complete reversal of opinion, I completely agree with the top post. As a self imposed punishment for my idiotic train of thought, I have given myself a minus on both of my posts.

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parmenti•15th of January 2010

ha... don't beat yourself up about it houstonlively. I'm glad you're on board though.. we really should try to push this point.. Can anyone suggest the best place to make this request heard? I'm not new to social networking but I am unfamiliar with boonex's site and structure here. Let me know and lets try to get this feature included in the first subversion or so :)

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houstonlively•15th of January 2010

I think the brain's working a little better today. The best place to put it would be to add it to trac as an enhancement. I'd be happy to do it, but would like to see a little more input from others first. It should not be that difficult a task, because it seems as though the basic functions to get the data are already coded. More input from others might be helpful, but this should be entered into trac before some Boonex employee gets the idea to sell a mod that does this.

One of the features see more

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AlexT•17th of January 2010

There is already friends' activity in Dolphin : Spy -> Friends

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houstonlively•17th of January 2010

Alex, the spy module doesn't even come close to what we're talking about. What are we supposed to do with the Spy feature, other than sit there and look at it? We are talking about an interactive activity feed that is an aggregate of you, and your friends walls, all in one place.

The easiest way for you to understand, would be to go join facebook, and see for yourself how a well designed activity feed works.

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houstonlively•17th of January 2010

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parmenti•18th of January 2010

It's good to see we're definitely both on the same page now houston :) Has anyone heard any murmors that this is in development?

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