I'm actually glad this feed is simpler than Facebook. Organized by time is organized enough for me (and I have a soft spot for things that are chronologically organized).
I just made a few updates to the Feed. Not sure if people will like 'em or not because it does make the Feed a little more cluttered, so if you don't like it, just let me know.
The new updates are: 1. When you make a post on someone else's wall, it'll show up in your feed. This is not true for replies; only for original comments. What's been happening is that I'm seeing a lot of people having conversations with one another, but they keep flipping between walls. So user A will post on B's wall, then B to reply will post on A's wall. With this new update, B won't need to go to A's wall to reply. Instead, any replies he makes will show up in A's feed.
2. Likes now show up. Whenever someone you're following likes something, it'll show up in your feed now. Just a way to see what you're friends are reading.
3. This is a behind the scenes update; I've cached pretty much everything to do with the Feed. This actually didn't speed anything up, but I'm going to keep it just because it reduces the load on the server (and anyways, reducing the load in one area will speed things up in other areas of the site). What's important to know is that new blog entries, literary works, and likes won't show up in your Feed until up to 30 minutes after they are made. But, 30 minutes is the max.
Jiggity wrote:The addition of likes to the feed has already been helpful and cool, so kudos.
Yeah, I was worried about it being cluttered last night, and I still do think it's cluttered. However, seeing the likes has already led me to a few good literary works that I might've missed otherwise.
