As a user I look more at New Posts... the only recent activity I'd probably care about is that of people I follow and I have my own news feed for that at https://xenforo.com/community/account/news-feed
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gavpeds
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What our users use all the time is recent posts. I have the CTA recent post plugin installed. They prefer it to new posts as they can keep an eye on most recent posts in a time organised maner. They dont like recent activity as it pulls in more than just posts and threads.
Our members look at Recent Activity more than What's New, and for me I always stay on Recent Activity page to keep an eye on members activity and what's going on because it also includes "Members online now". It's really useful and it would be amazing if there's an option to auto update the page when there's something new.
kontrabass
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Definitely voting for "new posts" here. Our users want to see new posts, not pages of who liked what! (esp on a small mobile screen)
Here's our analytics for past month:
I think it pretty much has to be customisable (for the site owner, not necessarily the user) as which is used or makes more sense will be more site dependent.
SoeHoe
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I prefer to recent activity. But if we have the option to switch between them it will be more awesome.
Kerby
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On my forum analytics says it's 97% new posts and only 3% recent activity.
Personally I can't understand why people would prefer recent-activity over find-new. It's surprising me, that other forums can have almost only recent activity hits. Probably it can be a issue of robots.txt? I have following in my robots.txt:
Personally I can't understand why people would prefer recent-activity over find-new. It's surprising me, that other forums can have almost only recent activity hits. Probably it can be a issue of robots.txt? I have following in my robots.txt:
When other admins doesn't block crawlers in robots.txt for example recent-activity, then it's probably more clear why they have a lot more hits
I think some people just prefer a Facebook like feed to see everything going on... I just prefer to see the posts not the likes or status updates.On my forum analytics says it's 97% new posts and only 3% recent activity.
Personally I can't understand why people would prefer recent-activity over find-new. It's surprising me, that other forums can have almost only recent activity hits. Probably it can be a issue of robots.txt? I have following in my robots.txt:
When other admins doesn't block crawlers in robots.txt for example recent-activity, then it's probably more clear why they have a lot more hits
DeltaHF
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I have a large forum (10.8m posts) with a heavily customized theme. I have "New Posts" and "Recent Activity" links placed right next to one another in the top left corner of the forum home page only, and it's not even close. There's around 300 visits to "Recent Activity" and over 12,700 visits to "New Posts".
Although I would, of course, like both, if I had to choose one I strongly support New Posts. For very active boards like mine, Recent Activity can look a bit like a firehose, with the first page filling up with activity from just the last minute or two. It's interesting, but not very useful. If Recent Activity was the only option, it would be very frustrating and useless for any marginally active forum.
Although I would, of course, like both, if I had to choose one I strongly support New Posts. For very active boards like mine, Recent Activity can look a bit like a firehose, with the first page filling up with activity from just the last minute or two. It's interesting, but not very useful. If Recent Activity was the only option, it would be very frustrating and useless for any marginally active forum.
Mouth
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+1 /find-new/posts
That said, it would be better to allow the admin to decide if what's new = new posts or recent activity. Allows flexibility and testing.
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