Talk:Fb:feed
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The News Feed should have a unique ID like the Wall and Discussion Board do. There will be certain apps that compartmentalize users into groups, rather than having to create hundreds (or thousands) of separate apps. In that case, users won't want to see the news from the other sub-groups.
For example, imagine an application that is like Yelp, but very localized. You could add the application, and then specify which "community" you want to be a member of. There are two ways to implement this: one is to create hundreds or thousands of applications, all the same except for the region. (This is what Water Cooler does: an app for Cubs fans, an app for Sox fans, etc.) The other way to do it is to have just one app, and let people choose which community they belong to when they sign up.
The first case might make sense if you only need a dozen different applications, but as affinities become more specialized, the second approach makes more sense. In that case, you would need to be able to associate a news feed with each individual community within an application, not just with an application.
I've created a bug to track this:
http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3497
The tag does not seem to wrap the text, which makes it hard to place within an app. Ideally it would wrap to fit any size div, or take width as a parameter. Cool tag otherwise.
It would be nice if the double line at the bottom of the feed wasn't there, or alternatively could be toggled off.
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[edit] Specific User ID
It would be nice if the option to provide an ID for a specific user were present. Then, apps could provide stories about an individual user, rather than all friends of the person logged in.
The CSS in Safari is broken, the first feed item is always to right of the title, which is hidden behind white space. FF is also pretty messed up when the feed is empty.
[edit] Display dates and Display comment with story
Is there any plan to parameterize the element so we can direct it to display date info with the short stories?
Also this tag presents stories without the user's comments if they added to the feed story. Is there some plan to allow including the user's comments on the story?
- Not at this time, but I'll share your suggestion internally. Thanks, Pete (563683308 14:42, 9 June 2009 (PDT))
[edit] Both one-liners and feed stories displayed
When I'm using the fb:feed tag, I get both the one-line stories and the longer feed stories for each template bundle. Is there any way of only displaying only one of those (or any such feature planned)?
- Could you please file a bug so we can investigate? Please provide the URL where you're using this tag. Thanks, Pete (563683308 13:37, 21 August 2009 (PDT))
[edit] stream.publish
I use stream.publish to add newsfeed stories, but when I use the fb:feed tag, it says there are no events to display. Anyone know how to get it to work?
