Community feed & engagement
Create posts, follow conversations, and keep up with community activity.
Community navigation
When members open a community page, the header includes:
- Community (feed)
- About
- Courses
- Events
- Members
The header search uses the placeholder Search posts, members, topics... and filters results inside the feed.
Quick filters and advanced filters
Use the quick filter row to jump between:
- All
- Following
- Popular
- Recent
- Liked
- Saved
Select Filters for advanced options:
- Discussion: Course discussions only
- Content Types: Text Posts, Videos, Images, Links
- Time Range: Today, This Week, This Month, All Time
- Categories: filter by community categories
Following, Liked, and Saved are personalized filters. Visitors need to sign in and join the community before those filters can show their own activity.
Create a post
Open the composer
Select Share your thoughts... to expand the editor.
Add a title and body
Use Write a title... and What's on your mind?. Type @ to mention an active member, then choose the matching name. A post or reply can mention up to 10 people.
Attach to a course (optional)
Choose Attach to course (optional) or Attach to lesson (optional), then select Clear to remove.
Add media and extras
Use Add photos, Add video, Add attachment, Add emoji, Add GIF, or Create poll.
Choose a category and post
Pick General or a custom category, then select Post.
Link previews and uploads
- Link previews appear automatically with Generating link preview... when a URL is detected. After the post is saved, the preview card stays visible in the feed and opens the saved destination when selected.
- Drag and drop files into the composer for faster uploads.
- Hiveality handles images, videos, and files, with a progress indicator for each upload.
- Posts and comments can include text, uploaded media, files, GIFs, emoji, or a poll. Empty posts are blocked unless at least one valid attachment or poll is included.
- If an attachment or poll cannot be saved, Hiveality keeps the feed from publishing an empty post and shows an error instead.
Member actions
- Members can like, save, comment, vote in polls, report content, and follow post authors from the feed or a single-post page.
- Like and save counts reconcile with the latest response after each action, so the feed stays closer to what other members will see.
- Post, reply, reaction, and poll counts refresh from saved activity, including after content is removed, so the visible totals do not depend on the current viewer's personal activity.
- Visitors who are not signed in or have not joined the community see a prompt before member-only actions run.
Follow conversations and notifications
Open a post's reply view to follow, unfollow, mute, or unmute that conversation. Authors and members who participate follow it automatically. Muting stops its activity notices; unmuting restores the follow choice you had before.
The notification button groups replies, reactions, and mentions by conversation. Open an unread item to jump to the relevant post and load its unread replies. A reply is marked read after it has been visible briefly, and that read state follows the member across devices.
Following a conversation also makes it eligible for the Following feed. Saved remains a separate bookmark list.
Live feed updates
New posts, comments, reactions, poll changes, attachments, bookmarks, and notifications can refresh in the open community without a manual page reload. When a filtered feed is open, Hiveality refreshes the matching results so an update does not appear in the wrong view.
Returning to the browser tab or reconnecting refreshes the feed from the saved community data. The community sidebar also shows the current online member count when presence is available.
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