The Customize Feed option "Content source priority" has now been added.
You can slide this option towards: • More from Groups • More from Users
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.)
Smart Feeds v2
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.
The current Customize Feed options:
Customize Feed v2:(currently under consideration / planning)
With the v2, there will be more direct control of each source of content, that appears in your Feeds.
For example: A user can use the settings:
"Users you Follow" to Maximum and All other options to Minimum
to essentially get a close replica of the previous "Following" Feed.
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 "All Users", similar to the previous Default/Global feed, they could use the settings:
"Other Users" to Maximum and All other options to Minimum
to get a feed that is mostly Globalized, and NOT specific to your Following, Subscribed Groups, Relevant Users/Groups.
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! -The SW Team
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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 SmartFeed are a nightmare to me, and far from smart. All I want is the ability to choose for myself to see ALL posts by any member I haven't blocked, muted or they have me blocked, and on top of this ALL 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.
