My JR robot would be all A and no I.
All it needs to do is simulate sign-up, login and log out, and make allowable posts of text, images, etc. over a pre-determined period of time, at the request of Admin. only.
But at the same time, we don't want this to morph into a free-roaming spambot..
I'll aim to find actual people to act as test users, when I understand the system better, and have a basic framework ready.
@strumelia "Latest Activity" is the Timeline that follows each user profile, and appears on their profile page.
I have just posted in the forum of a profile that I follow (a "Translating" profile, where my translating group and translating forums are located). The quota I have created for this kind of functional profile has only Groups and Forums. No Timeline, Blog, or other unrelated functions.
When I land on the top page for this functional profile, I can see a tab for Groups and a tab for Forum.
When I click on the Forum tab, I see new menu starting with Forum, under which the Forum categories I created are listed. In one of these I recently posted a new topic. Alongside the Forum tab, there are also tabs for Newest posts, My posts, Settings, Categories, and Your settings.
My new post is listed there under "My posts".
That's OK in itself. When I visit a forum that I am following, it will be useful to have my own topic posts placed under their own tab so I can review them easily.
But my new post does not appear on my own profile page anywhere, just as you are finding with your profile pages.
It seems that Group discussions have higher status in the JR system and can be followed from afar, and if Activity Timeline is activated for your profile, then odd things like following other profiles, or adding a blog post, will show as Latest Activity.
Forum activities can only be seen by going to each forum concerned, so new visitors to a site are not going to see a quick preview on the top page.
There is no obvious way to control what goes into Activity Timeline.
The Global Config for this module only cares about the number of characters that can be used for a manual activity update. The automatic settings seem to be hardwired (for those of us who lack coding skills).
It seems to me that the most economical way to design the user-centered timeline would be to have it pull in ALL activity (from group discussions, new posts, blog posts, following actions, public replies to posts, and so on, and then to provide a global configuration control that allows the timeline to be configured according to the purpose of each Quota (profile category).
The alternative, which could also be useful as a second option, would to have a separate panel for every kind of activity (Group discussion, new forum posts, new forum replies, etc.) and then allow these to be switched on and off and positioned on the page.
It would be nice to have a Global Configuration that includes layout options for the activities that Admin wants to appear on each profile page.
For each network, different kinds of activity may be most significant, and the network creator may wish to highlight some kinds of activity, and let other kinds of activity have less visibility.
Not being able to pull all or selected kinds of activity, from all users (members), into a single (non-profile) Page window, seems odd. We are often advised to highlight member activities, on the landing page or home page of an online community, in order to attract new members.
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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
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