The Customize Feed option "[big]Content source priority[/big]" has now been added.
You can slide this option towards: [b]• More from Groups • More from Users[/b]
to affect where most of your feed content is coming from.
A configuration like this one (below), may in the interim, provide you with a feed that is a bit closer to the previous "Following" feed:
(The current options are still far from perfect. Still being worked on and improved, as we continue to receive more feedback.)
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[big]Smart Feeds v2[/big]
Possibly more importantly, we are looking into a Smart Feeds (Customize) v2, which will revamp the set of Customization Options available, and how they affect your feed.
At present, there is a lot going on with the options, where most of the slider settings shift priority of content from one source to the other.
We are looking into a possible change to this, which may be more understandable and easier for users to operate, and also, provide you with more refined control of your feed content.
[b][u]The current Customize Feed options:[/u][/b]
[b][u]Customize Feed v2:[/u][/b] [i](currently under consideration / planning)[/i]
With the v2, there will be more direct control of each source of content, that appears in your Feeds.
[i][u]For example[/u][/i]: A user can use the settings:
[b]"Users you Follow" to Maximum[/b] and [b]All other options to Minimum[/b]
to essentially get a [b]close replica of the previous "Following" Feed[/b].
As this will Maximize "Following" as the source of your content, while Minimizing or Erasing the other sources from appearing in your feed.
Conversely, if if a user prefers to see [b]"All Users", similar to the previous Default/Global feed[/b], they could use the settings:
[b]"Other Users" to Maximum[/b] and [b]All other options to Minimum[/b]
to get a feed that is mostly Globalized, and NOT specific to your Following, Subscribed Groups, Relevant Users/Groups.
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Do feel free to let us know, if you believe the "Smart Feed v2" may provide you with better understanding and control of your SW Feed.
Thanks and kind regards! [i]-The SW Team[/i]
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I really don't get this, I only see the last comment made by friends, as soon as they make another comment the previous disappears from my feed. At the same time I can se I have no new post, nor comment in a time span of 5 hours.
These [i]SmartFeed[/i] are a nightmare to me, and far from [i]smart[/i]. All I want is the ability to choose for myself to see [b][i]ALL[/i][/b] posts by any member I haven't blocked, muted or they have me blocked, and on top of this [b][i]ALL[/i][/b] comments made by friends and preferably also from the people I interact with most frequently on the boards.
The boards have simply turned into a mess in my eyes. I don't get the content I am looking for.
Even with settings that supposedly mimic the original "global feed", I encounter situations where I see a post in the feed from 7 minutes ago, then I refresh the page and that post is now gone and the latest one I see is from 20 minutes ago. That post was not deleted, I can find it if I search the username. But why should it disappear? The algorithm seems to think I have already "seen" it, but I didn't even get a chance to respond to it yet. I don't like the feed changing every time I refresh it. I want to see all the most recent posts in order of when they were posted AND comments from people I interact with. But there's no way to see that, since the sliders control posts and comments simultaneously. So if I lower the "relevant" slider all the way, I see posts in order, but now I no longer see any comments at all, which is not what I want.
