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Home Room Feed Tutorial

Your feed collects posts from every Study Room you're in, sorted newest first. Read, bookmark, or dismiss — it's your inbox for your communities.

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What is the Feed?

Your Feed is a single unified view of activity from every Study Room you belong to. Instead of visiting each room separately to catch up, new posts flow here automatically.

Posts are shown newest first. The feed shows only unread items by default — once you read or dismiss something it disappears, keeping the list focused.

â„šī¸The feed only shows activity from rooms where you are an active member. Posts published before you joined a room do not appear.
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What shows up in your Feed

The feed handles several types of content, each displayed with its own card layout so you can scan quickly:

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Posts

Discussions, questions, reviews, and announcements from room members.

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Polls

Voting polls — you can vote directly from the feed card.

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Events

Meetups, read-alongs, and author Q&As from your rooms.

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Bookshelf Adds

When a room adds a new work to its reading list.

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Media Uploads

Photos and visual content shared by room members.

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Live News

Auto-fetched news articles surfaced by the room's Newsdesk.

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Research Articles

Curated research papers and academic content shared in the room.

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How posts arrive

When a member publishes a post in a Study Room it is automatically sent to the feeds of all active members of that room. This happens at the moment of publishing.

  • Only Published posts propagate — drafts stay private.
  • Posts from before you joined won't appear. Visit the room directly to catch up on older content.
  • Deleted posts disappear from the feed automatically.
💡To browse all past posts in a room, open My Study Rooms and go to the room's Posts tab.
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Unread items & marking as read

The feed shows only unread items by default. The number badge on the feed link shows how many new things are waiting.

There are two ways to clear an item:

  • ✓ Read button — appears on every card. Tap it to mark the item as read and remove it from the feed.
  • Mark all read — the button at the top right of the filter bar clears everything at once.
  • Bookmarking — tapping 🔖 on a card saves and dismisses it in one action (see below).
â„šī¸Items are never deleted — they are just marked as read. You can always find an older post by visiting the room directly or checking your Bookmarks.
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Bookmarks — save anything

Every feed card has a 🔖 bookmark icon in the top right corner. Tapping it saves the post to your Bookmarks page and marks it as read so it disappears from your feed.

Think of it as a save-and-dismiss: you acknowledge the post and keep a link to it for later, all in one tap.

📍 At /homeroom/bookmarks you can:

  • See all your saved posts with title, room, and author
  • Click through directly to the original post in the room
  • Remove a bookmark when you no longer need it
  • Find your saved Library works (books, serials, etc.) in the same place
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Managing your rooms

Click Manage Rooms (the 🏠 button in the feed header) to open a simple panel listing every room you belong to. Each room has an on/off toggle that controls whether its posts appear in your feed.

  • Toggle off a noisy room to hide its posts without leaving the room. You can always toggle it back on.
  • Show all / Hide all shortcuts let you reset quickly if you want to see everything or start fresh.
  • Turning a room off affects only your feed — your membership and the room itself are not changed.
💡Changes take effect immediately. Any posts from a room you turn off will be hidden on the next feed load.
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Real-time updates

Your feed stays live while the page is open. When a new post arrives from one of your rooms, a blue banner appears at the top of the feed:

↑ 2 new items — click to refresh

Click the banner to load the new posts at the top of the feed without losing your current scroll position.

â„šī¸Real-time delivery is powered by Ably. On slow or restricted networks the banner may not appear, but refreshing the page always shows the latest items.