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Jeffery
Jeffery Apr 23 '12
Hey folks, just curious. Is there a way to combine the wall and newsfeed?  It's kind of weird that they are separate.  Most other networks like facebook, socialengine, phpfox, all have one feed.  


Anyone know?

Den Team
Den Apr 23 '12
Would you give some examples of such combine?
Jeffery
Jeffery Apr 23 '12
I mean mainly on the user profile. You have to have the newsfeed AND the wall so people can posts the user has made and all people to leave comments on the profile. They should be one. Like on the dashboard or main page you have the newsfeed where you can also post stuff. Why isn't it like that on user profiles?  I hope this clarifies.  If need I can take screenshots to show what I mean.
DeFender
DeFender Apr 23 '12
agree
Joseph
Joseph Apr 23 '12
yeah a great example would be fubar.com the main home page is the dashboard and the profiles allow posting of comments to the newsfeed like a dashboard and when someone does that you get a notification that you have a comment
Jeffery
Jeffery Apr 23 '12
just like facebook, socialengine, phpfox, all of them.  This is the only network script that I've seen that doesn't do that.  Kind of weird. But it seems that it should be fairly simple. I'm not a big coder so I'm not sure.
DeFender
DeFender Apr 23 '12
the index page in this case have to be different for users, because users could see their friends posts and comments. fb, socialengine, phpfox and free jcow has this, but I think that oxwall team will create much better solutions.
DeFender
DeFender Apr 23 '12

Quote from Jeffery just like facebook, socialengine, phpfox, all of them.  This is the only network script that I've seen that doesn't do that.  Kind of weird. But it seems that it should be fairly simple. I'm not a big coder so I'm not sure.
it is simple, but ... one moment, if you have too much code changes, after update the ow, you'll have many problems.
Jeffery
Jeffery Apr 23 '12
Yeah, but I modify my site so much anyway, once we get an update I'm going to have to go back through an re-change things. I don't know. I suppose I could live with it, it just seems weird to me and kind of makes the profiles a little cluttered looking.
Michael I.
Michael I. May 13 '12
Thank you for a reasonable report, Jeffery. We will review it with our development team.
Akim
Akim Jun 9 '12

Combine Wall and Newsfeed

I have a question for developers. Why isn't realized this feature in 1.3.2 version?

Michael I.
Michael I. Jun 15 '12
Because we realized it after 1.3.2 build had been released.
Staaz
Staaz Jan 28 '15
what code line would i have to edit to make the main page show also personal changes like in groups etc. ?

i understand the difference between main and dashboard but in my point of view people dont like the need to click around to gather information. the lazy people i know want all on one site.

ross Team
ross Jan 28 '15
Staaz if you mean like the posts in the group newsfeed should be displayed in the main newsfeed. This is a custom code modification. Create a post in the custom code modification section of the forum as we do not provide assistance with code modifications.

Probably some community member will assist you with that

Or you can hire a programmer to do that for you. You can find a programmer here: http://www.oxwall.org/market/specialists

Also you can make a suggestion on uservoice: http://oxwall.uservoice.com/forums/13756-ideas-for-oxwall