1 Topic by slinky

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Topic: Limit what shows in recent activities

Vlad, the recent activities feed is a great new feature... very cool!!!!

There are two problems I have with it when using it for a dating site and I think there needs to be a setting to control these items:

1) When a user sends another user an item, this cannot be displayed in the general feed. On a dating site, I don't want Janet to know that I just sent a gift to Jane and to Linda. I want all my communications private. The only thing that I might share is that I uploaded a new picture, changed my profile text, etc.

2) Others mentioned it here, if albums are private then you need to be able to not have pictures in those albums be accessible. Personally I prefer private pictures to private albums. Most people don't use albums on a dating site (unless you want to make this more social networking) and they prefer to have a picture private/public. Right now if you use the feed, my understanding is that the new pictures uploaded to private albums can be accessible via the feed.

2 Reply by slinky

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Re: Limit what shows in recent activities

Thanks. Actually I am going to remove the feed entirely from my site. I realize that the feed also states who posted on whose guestbook, who sent gifts, etc. People want their privacy on the site. This will go over well on social networking plays and horribly on dating sites. It's the danger that other people (girls/guys) will know what they are doing and whom they are contacting...

Still vlad, it's way cool. I may use this for another application but, for now, will have to turn it off.

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Re: Limit what shows in recent activities

Hey guys,
There is a beautiful parameter you may pass calling {activities:} extension.
Look at ext.activities.php for details. You can give it these values, separated by "|"

default: 'friends', 'blogs', 'albums', 'pictures', 'audios', 'videos', 'events', 'gifts', 'guestbooks', 'comments'

// also available 'blogs_comments', 'events_comments', 'pictues_comments', 'videos_comments' (in case you would want to display exact comments)


So open your account_home.tpl, find {activities:member_id=member_id,timeframe="45",limit="30"}

Change to:
{activities:member_id=member_id,timeframe="15",limit="10",actions="blogs|albums|pictures"}

This will display last ten activities done last 15 days including blogs, albums, pictures actions only.

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4 Reply by slinky

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Re: Limit what shows in recent activities

radioact... you are awesome. This is fantastic information. I'm not sure if I'll delete it entirely but this surely is a fantastic bit of information.

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Re: Limit what shows in recent activities

Thank you, Mikey

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6 Reply by MudiO90NbvC

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Re: Limit what shows in recent activities

Thanks for this. It works perfectly.

7 Reply by cbbanescu

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Re: Limit what shows in recent activities

Great modification radioact!  Going to implement it also.  Thanks a million!

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Re: Limit what shows in recent activities

Thx radioact !!!
Another Q: is it possible to put the picture first (like on facebook), i tried the regular code but that didn't work.

And if I'm correct:
When you remove the tag member_id=member_id it's like the same if you remove the friends tag from the code?
Because it shows all activity then?

Last edited by godyn (2010-06-30 11:01:52)