🛠️ Smart Feeds v2 Now Released ☀️ Secondary Custom Feed 🌓 Coming Soon 📢
We are happy to announce that our [b][u]Version 2 of SW Smart Feeds[/u] has now been released[/b] and is available to all users! 🙂
We believe that these recent improvements made, should allow users better control of their Default Home Feed. In addition, each user should be able to accomplish their preferences more easily.
The variety of customizable options should benefit our user-base as a whole, where each user can have some greater control over what is shown in their feeds, rather than all users being subjected to one or two feed formats only [i](as it used to be - which may benefit some, but also inconvenience many)[/i].
We also intend to have a Secondary / Alternate Customizable Smart Feed, located next to the default Home Feed.
This will allow users to specify up to TWO highly customized Feed Layouts/Profiles, per their liking, where they can easily switch between these two, Custom-defined Feeds, in just One Click!
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We hope that these improvements to SW will provide a better experience to everyone. 👍
Thanks for the feedback and support. Kind regards! [i]- The SW Team[/i]
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@helenS This configuration should get you as close as possible to what you are asking for:
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If you feel that your feed is still "too slow", it can benefit to move some of the other sliders, like the first 2-3 sliders, to "Level 2".
Having those content sources at "Minimum", can actually almost entirely exclude those sources from appearing in your feed results.
So if "Faster Speed/Recency of incoming posts" is your priority, it may help to use this setup:
Also moving "Comments & Replies" to Maximum, can further push more recent content into your feeds, however, that depends on if you wish to show Comments in your Feed, or prefer it to remain Posts-Only.
@Andrew Not trying to be rude here, but the answers about how to tweak the sliders to get the desired feeds are wildly inconsistent. I wanted almost the exact same thing as @helenS did (just also wanted comments from friends - and only friends - in the feed along with everyones posts)... and the suggestion @Nuno came with earlier is entirely different from this.
I think this actually highlights just how unintuitive this system is when even responses from staff to almost the same problem become so very different.
@Nanori The only difference between HelenS' request and mine was comments from friends. Everything else identical. All posts from everyone, treated equally in the feed, and everything entirely chronological. Shouldn't need 4 out of 6 sliders being quite different for that.
[quote]It could also help to slide the settings of "Users you Follow" and "Groups you Subscribe to", to at least the level of "2". By moving them to "Minimum" (as you have in your snapshot), you almost entirely exclude those sources from your feed results.[/quote]
If you feel that your feed is still "too slow", it can benefit to move some of the other sliders, like the first 2-3 sliders, to "Level 2".
Having those content sources at "Minimum", can actually almost entirely exclude those sources from appearing in your feed results.
So if "Faster Speed/Recency of incoming posts" is your priority, it may help to use this setup:
Also moving "Comments & Replies" to Maximum, can further push more recent content into your feeds, however, that depends on if you wish to show Comments in your Feed, or prefer it to remain Posts-Only.
@Andrew I appreciate your help each time. But unfortunately your suggested settings don't work either. I set them the exact same way and only see posts from 1+ hours ago now (except for the very first post). Changing the first 3 sliders doesn't change this either.
@Andrew Andrew – thank you for your help. 🌷 I've changed my settings accordingly. It's difficult to compare before and after though, because it can't be done individually for each devise that I have, as the settings are stored remotely. Anyway – let's see what will happen!
