Timeline (Home Page)
Timeline app is very important because it collects all activity on the site in one single place. The app automatically registers events from different profile and content related apps and also allows doing direct posts via Post to Feed form.
As you may see, direct post may include text with emojis, sheared links, photos, and videos. The post can be public or has limited visibility which can be done using standard Visibility field, also it can be posted anonymously using Post as anonymous switcher. 'Publish at' field allows creating delayed posts, but by default this feature is available to moderator and administrator profiles only.
Timeline app allows representing all collected data in two ways:
- Timeline - this representation displays all events (items) on a timeline, where the newest event comes first. So, in this representation, a viewer may easily see a time sequence of events which were happened on the site or with the profile which timeline is currently viewed.
- Outline - this representation displays all events (items) as a combined set of blocks. It doesn't allow seeing the time sequence between displayed events, but it gives general understanding about the last activity on the site.
- Timeline from home page is called Public Feed. It displays only public events from the whole site. Some of these events can be seen on profile timelines.