wondering about the feeds

when i click the "friends only" button in the feeds it only shows the last 4-6 posts that have been made and only those that have been set to friends only.  my friends posts that have been made global do not appear in the friends only feed. 

i'm wondering if this is the way it is supposed to work or if it's a bug.

combing through the global feed to find my friends' stuff is nearly impossible and a lot of stuff is being marked global b/c every time you post you have to change it back to "friends only". maybe other's dont have to change it back but i'm having to do it. 

 Naksken:

yeah i think the default should be friends,  it shouldn't be easy to accidentally post publicly, also i think that if you're friends with someone, and they post globally, it should appear in your friends feed just the way their friends only stuff appears in your global feed.  I plan avoid the global feeds to avoid spoilers.  

the spoilers are gonna be EVERYWHERE.  i think the default should be friends only too, as you know i post stuff about myself and my family on my feeds b/c it's a carefully curated group of not the dangerous  kind of weirdos.  i do NOT want to post a pic of my kid on the global feed accidentally!

@arega, i made a few posts last night , i think they are all global, (so good luck finding them lol) and if i want a post to be friends only i have to choose it before i post every single time i post.  when you choose the "friends only" setting it doesn't stay there., the default, like you said, seems to be global. 

Yeah, I hope this gets fixed, because it's a problem for my MDL feeds, too. Scrolling through global feeds is too much of a work, but my friends' feeds show only 5 newest posts. 

I am bothered by this one as well.  

If I put the setting for "Feeds" from the "Home" drop-down button from "Global" to "Friends", it doesn't save those settings.  Each time I go to the "Feeds" section, I have to click and change the settings.  I know it's only one click, but it's annoying to have to do this every single time.  I also believe that I should be able to see all my friends posts in my feeds even if it's set to "friends" only.  As a "friend" I should be able to see everything they share to the public as well.


The same goes for doing posts from your profile page.  Having to remember to switch from "Public" to "Friends" is rather annoying.  It would be nice if there were settings like on FB where you set it and it automatically remembers your post settings, and you can "manually" change it whenever you feel like switching over.  I don't like it set to "public" by default.

I'm also bothered by that new feature global/friends and the fact you have to switch to see friends only feeds. 

I searched on the profile settings if we can add preferences for the feeds, but nothing appeared.

If so many people are bothered by this setting, is it possible to have it set on friends only feeds by default? Or can you add a fonction on our profile settings for people who want to make a choice?

Thanks for all the hard work to improve the site. Amazing job!

 joannesmith:

Was there a global feed before?  if so, i didn't even know that.   Am glad I am reading this thread so I understand this feature.  (or at least i think i understand)

there was no global feed before the update. your feeds consisted only of what your friends posted and you could go to a user's profile and look at their feeds from there.

i am not opposed to a global feed. there are lots of ways it could be a good thing, i just want the ability to see my friends' post (even the global ones) from my friends feed and to have "friends only" be the default.  

Agreed and thanks for letting me know...i was wondering if all this time i was missing that there even were global feeds.   I can see when that might be useful occasionally.