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What’s up with the History List?

There are several posts appearing in my “History List” that I had never seen before seeing them on there, and still haven’t opened as I have little interest in them.
Why are these in my “History List” when I never even saw them, let alone accessed the post before? 🤔
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Andrew · Admin
There are currently 3x ⏳ Private History Feeds:

Visited Posts - https://similarworlds.com/history-posts
Seen in Feed Posts - https://similarworlds.com/history-infeed
Visited Users - https://similarworlds.com/history-users



You may be referring to this one:
Seen in Feed Posts - https://similarworlds.com/history-infeed

This feed in particular, is meant to help users find posts that they may have "Glanced" in feeds, but didn't click before navigating away.

Sometimes, a user may want to navigate backward to find a post they previously glanced, figuring in hindsight that it might be interesting to check out.

The "Seen in Feed Posts" History page, is meant to help in those cases,
so that users don't need to worry much about not being able to find something they previously saw.



(More options and enhancements are planned and pending for these History feeds.)
DragonFruit · 70-79, M
@Andrew Must be that....why is that the “default” when it’s basically like the “New” feed minus the absolute newest posts? Also....Why do you pin some of your changes for a day and leave us in the dark about others? A bit of a tutorial on this would have been helpful. I’ll see if I can figure out how to access one of the other feeds, as I feel that particular one is basically useless.
DragonFruit · 70-79, M
@Andrew OK, I changed it to “Visited Posts”, which at least serves some purpose for me.
Andrew · Admin
@DragonFruit
I understand your points.

As for that feed being the Default, there are actually 2 Defaults:

Using the Header Menu:
Social > History
takes you to the "Visited Posts" history feed, by default.

So that default link, is actually accessible from any page on this website.


When you are actively in the post feed,
the History link seen in the feed, defaults to the "Seen in Feed" version.


We figure that based on user's browsing and movement habits, the way those defaults are placed, may be more adequate for most.





As for feature release updates,

We have an endless amount of tasks for a team of 2 admins, developing and moderating everything on SW.

As soon as we released that new feature, we moved on to other urgent tasks that need attending to.


Also lot of these smaller features may be straightforward for many, and not requite a large announcement to draw in all user's attention.

Still, we are happy to address users questions and concerns, when we come across them, and once we have some spare time to do so.
DragonFruit · 70-79, M
@Andrew Fair enough.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Andrew oh my! And here I thought that group was for actual world history! 🙃😈😆

Perhaps a rename is in order? Like SW-History or Site history?

In any case I'll endeavor to remember this.

I believe I recently did make a history post under this group!
Andrew · Admin
@DeWayfarer
They aren't groups. 🙂

The links/pages we are referring to, did not exist until today.


You can try visiting them if you haven't yet:

Visited Posts - https://similarworlds.com/history-posts
Seen in Feed Posts - https://similarworlds.com/history-infeed
Visited Users - https://similarworlds.com/history-users
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Andrew thank you, already have and bookmarked. 😉