Activity stream
A great way to see everything that is happening on a site is Elgg's activity stream. The stream includes short snippets of information on what the members of the site are doing. The page has tabs so that users can choose between seeing everyone's activity, just their friends' activity or their own. They can also filter by content type (for example, only blog posts). The activity stream respects the permission settings on content so that if a user sets a blog post to be for friends only, that blog post only appears in the activity stream of those friends.
These types of pages are very important for social sites because they make the site appear alive with activity, and they can help people find interesting content that they might have missed otherwise. For many users, this is the first page that they check after they log in.
In additional to viewing content, users can also interact with the content in the activity stream. On the right of many items is a thumbs up icon for "liking...
