For users preferring the ⏳ Old Chronological Feed layout: ❓

Are you aware that you can adjust (Customize) you're Post Feeds settings, to have almost the same experience as the Old Feed?
[i](Asking, as we have been seeing users complaining about this for a long time.)[/i]

We even made it easy for users to do this:

[b]Home Feed > Customize Feed > Presets > [u]All Users, Time Based[/u][/b]

With that setup, you should see even more recent posts (Chronologically) than what is shown in the "New Feed".

(For those who simply wish to see "as many posts as possible" - Your feed content will be more "Random" and Less Relevant, however.)

Users are very free to set this as their "Default" if they wish to,
otherwise, it can also be set as their secondary, Custom Feed.

We've done as much as we can to offer users lots of options and flexibility, to see the home feed in a way that is more comfortable to them.

It doesn't seem true that we are "forcing users" to only use the site a certain way,
and "not listening to user's concerns".

On the contrary, I'm not aware of any other social networking site that offers users as much control and customization of their own feeds, as we do.

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We understand that the feed settings may still be confusing to some,
we do have plans to improve ease of use and user control.

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ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

I already have the post order set to the far left, time posted.
My complaint is that I cannot keep going back and seeing older and older posts. At some point it just keeps showing me ones I have seen before. Why??

Andrew · Admin

@ServantOfTheGoddess

Thanks for the feedback.

Is it that you are scrolling in the feed for a very long time, past 100 posts, for example?

Based on our data, most users don't usually scroll down that deep in the feeds without navigating away, at least not often.

I believe I understand a bit of what you may be experiencing, and what might be the cause.

We'll have to take note of this issue, and see how it can be improved in the near future.

ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

@Andrew
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Based on our data, most users don't usually scroll down that deep in the feeds without navigating away, at least not often.[/quote]

That is true. But once I've navigated away, I'd like to come back to the feed and continue looking chronologically backwards, at older and older posts, until I come to the next thing I'd like to navigate away to. This doesn't seem to be possible in my experience. It would be awesome if you could fix it.

Andrew · Admin

@ServantOfTheGoddess

Thanks for the additional feedback.

I don't think the "Old Feed" offered this experience, though? (asking to understand better)

This newer Smart Feed, does cause posts already "viewed in feed" to fall off (a bit),
thus allowing newer posts you have not yet seen, to become visible the next time you visit the feed.

With the old feed, you'd just keep seeing the same static order of posts, from Newest to Oldest, each time you revisit the feed (+ any new posts, to the top).

ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

@Andrew I have not kept track of the various changes in the feeds but I don't think this is a new issue, no. But I would have hoped that setting the feed to "time posted" would have solved it. I would just like to keep going back and seeing older posts once I've already seen the newer ones.

Andrew · Admin

@ServantOfTheGoddess

I believe we will need a new setting to accommodate this.

Often times users wish to have completely opposite feed functionality.

Right now, many users don't like the fact that posts "disappear" or fall off of feeds, once they scroll past it.

On the other-hand, users like yourself, seem to prefer that posts immediately fall away, once you scroll past them in feeds.

We may need to create a new setting to facilitate these differences in preference.

We'll try to see if we can make some improvements to these issues some time soon.

ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

@Andrew Thank you for all your efforts!