CUNY Academic Commons

Thanks for the further info. If I understand right there is a script on the page that checks what's currently loaded vs the latest data available and shows the "Load Newest" if there is newer activity than what is show on the page. Is that right?

• Everything: worked as expected
• My Friends: there was new activity but Load Newest did not show
• My Groups: worked as expected
• My Sites: Showed Load Newest but there was nothing new to show

I will try again later to see if I get similar results. Ideally I would do it on two different browsers (or computers) to make sure shared cookies (if you're storing data that way) aren't confusin things.

Two other thoughts

1. Scott should probably update the Codex page to mention a) that the page will update itself (the time updates without reload) and that Load Newest shows only if there is new content to load.

2. Maybe we can keep a button always visible but make it greyed out or have a different message if there is nothing new to load. This way people get used to seeing something there and can look to see if there is new data. I'd like to hear thoughts on that, it's just a quick idea at this point.

I would prefer the former option as the latter option would require overriding how BuddyPress does its latest activity checks, which, to me, would be too much work for minimal gain. I would probably make the 'Load Newest' button a sticky, floating link if we needed something more visually engaging.

Not only this, but the "Load Newest" button - when working properly - will show up only fairly rarely. It doesn't make much sense to show it all the time.

Punting to 1.9 due to time constraints.

Can anyone verify whether there's still an issue to address here? If it's just a documentation issue, it can be removed from the milestone.