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Feed Guide: The Ultimate Journey

Isaac October 25th, 2016

What is the Feed?

Feed is a section of 7 Cups wherein you can share pictures, thoughts, ideas, informative articles, participate in weekly/monthly challenges, share your achievements with the 7 Cups Community or even do shoutouts for our fellow members and listeners! It is a great way to connect with everyone on 7 Cups the same way as Group Chatrooms and Private Messages are! Note that the feed is available only for members and guests at the moment!

Learn more on how to use the feed for growth and support here.

You can see your feed posts on your profile (7cups.com/@YourUsername). You can see feedposts of those you follow by navigating to your feed.

Where can I find my Feed?

For those who use browser, you can find your feed here:

- 7cups.com/listener/feed.php (for listeners)
- 7cups.com/member/feed.php (for members)

- Under Community option at the top of your 7 Cups page.

For the application users,

- You can simply slide from the left to right of your phone screen and you will be able to see the Feed option

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Features of the Feed

The feed comes with many features letting us make our post exceptionally attractive for the viewers.

For example, you can change the size of your text, make it bold, italics, underlined or colored with a background. You can also add lovely emojis to your post ^_^

Here is a short tutorial on how one can make use of those features!

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How do I change the size of a text?

1. Select the text that you want to change the size of

2. Click on "Size" aawgESD.png

3. Choose the size accordingly (with 8 pixels being the smallest and 72 being the largest)

How do I add a link in my feed post?

You can place links in the body of your post which when clicked allow the reader to jump to another location on the page.

To create a hyperlink -

1. Select the text or image you want to link a page to.

2. Click on the Link icon aCnaFRuQ8RaPGUJY8WNbrsmsb39lib6KXxvYseWP.

3. In the Link Info box, type or paste your link in the URL box.

How do I add a picture to my feed post?

You can do the following to add a picture to your feed -

1. Copy the URL of the picture you would like to post in your feed.

You can do this by right clicking on the picture and selecting Copy Image Address.

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2. Back on the feed section, click the small icon of a landscape which looks something like this - EdYFgLO.png

3. You will see a window pop-up after clicking the landscape icon. Paste the copied Image URL in the URL textbox. The image will appear in the region at the right side of the pop-up window, below Preview.

What if I want to add an image from my computer or phone on the feed?

There are many image hosting sites where you can upload pics, from your PC or phone to use in your feed posts.

Some popular image hosting sites are:

Imgur
Postimage
TinyPic
SLiMG

Once you upload an image, you will have the URL location of the image that you can link to as you are creating your feed posts!

There are some additional features you can see in the pop-up window - Width, Height, Border, HSpace, VSpace, Alignment, lock and a refresh button.

Width - You can set the width of an image by entering a number (measured in pixels) in the text box below Width.

Height - Similarly, you can set the height of an image as well by entering a number in the text box below Height.

Border - This feature lets you add a black-colored border to your image. Greater the number inputted, wider the border!

VSpace or Vertical-Space - Add an indent at the top of your image. For instance, to get a 50 pixel free space at the top of your image, enter 50!

HSpace or Horizontal-Space - Similarly, use this feature to add an indent at the left of your image.

Alignment - Align the picture in your feed post, either left or right!

Lock Button ek1XIO3W20LTWK9uu27UMeGp4oMO3K-6jCGTNN-g - Lock button helps us maintain the resolution of an image in a specific ratio. If the lock button is selected, the image resolution will change to its original resolution ratio. For example, if the image was of width 60px and height 30px originally and one chooses its width to be 20px, the height of the image will change to 10px (2:1 ratio)

Refresh Button MIsB-yVp4z1vTeeN3vdz33kymlINMgg5MrPjM6Tl - Refresh button (situated beside the lock button) brings the image to its default size!

NOTE: Character limit for the feed is 1200 characters. Meaning, you can only enter 1200 letters, symbols or numbers to your post!

Lastly, the Posting Guidelines -

Do not post content or images that:
- Are abusive, harassing, graphic or bullying
- Include nudity or exposure of body parts
- Are sexually explicit or flirtatious
- Indicate/trigger self-harm or suicidal tendencies
- Impose a religion or view
- Are advice giving
- Are hate speech
- Indicate that you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of posting
- Include your personal contact information or social media handles
- Violate Community Guidelines (information about appropriate behavior)

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Special thanks to @Power and @Anomalia

Feel free to post your questions below or PM me if you need help with anything!

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huskyPOWER October 26th, 2016

@Isaac

WOW, did it, I posted something. THANKS SO VERY MUCH!!!

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Isaac OP October 26th, 2016

Whoot whoot! That's great huskypower! You're welcome! smiley
@huskyPOWER

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RedivivusRevenant October 27th, 2016

How to make it center?

And can I change it to different font?

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Isaac OP October 27th, 2016

Hey there! That's a great question, Redivivus! I don't think we can bring a text or an image in the center of our feed post. We do not have the center-alignment feature yet.
We cannot change the font style either. But in the app, "Size" option gets replaced by "Paragraph Format" and if you check, you will see that you can either type in Normal font, different sized headings and a formatted font style. The "Formatted" style is a bit different font style from the default font.

@RedivivusRevenant

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KRN October 27th, 2016

@Isaac Thank you for this wonderful post! I love it! :) this is very helpful I hope people (members and listeners) will be able to find their ways to this forum post :) great help!
You are doing a great great job, Isaac <3 awesomesauce!!!

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Isaac OP October 27th, 2016

Thank you Karen! It means a lot coming from you! heart
@KRN

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LozzaLou October 27th, 2016

How awesome is this!! So helpful! Especially the fact that all the diagrams that are animated! Such an amazing post you can tell so much thought gone into it! Well done @isaac you are so talented! This will help so many people! :D

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Isaac OP October 27th, 2016

I hope it does, Laura! Thank you! heart
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dreamingSunshine October 27th, 2016

Thats awesomely helpful @Isaac, as like before you helped me once again, you really are a rockstar, hats off to youheart

I wish they could allow HTML / CSS toosmiley, then it wud be so amazing.

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RarelyCharlie October 27th, 2016

I don't know why they have hidden so many features in the editor. The features are all there and mostly work, they are just hidden. Perhaps @KrinktheMellowUnicorn knows why. I think it would good if they could enable some more features both in the feed and in the forums, too, like centering and quotations. Fonts are more troublesome, because there's no way to be sure how a font will actually look on someone else's device.

@dreamingSunshine

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dreamingSunshine October 27th, 2016

@RarelyCharlie totally agree, if they could put some sort of system, at least an example of how a text (in different fonts), image, etc will look on different devices, using 7cups app, or a different browser (on phone), it wud be really great. It may take sometimes cause seems complex to me.

System would be nice cause it would be dynamic and on the spot, so at least you can know before postin, how a post will appear on different platforms, need not show all plarforms, only the major ones, It could be made optional too, so ppl can choose to ignore it if they find it complicated. But some ppl will really like it a lot.

KrinkTheMellowUnicorn October 27th, 2016

@RarelyCharlie - we actually enabled centering at one point and then it regressed. I'm not quite sure why we have some of the formatting commands hidden. I'd also like to see inline / in-page editing eventually. I'll ask @ezraBC and @devTeam sometime soon if there's any reason why we can't enable more of the formatting features of the editor tool

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Isaac OP October 27th, 2016

I wish that too, Sunshine!
Thank you so much! laugh
@dreamingSunshine

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October 29th, 2016

@Isaac

It is really a helpful guide smiley Very informative and systematic heart

Thanks for this guide, it will help newbies and oldies too to post feeds heartheart

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Isaac OP November 7th, 2016

Thank you @Halogen ! I hope it does!! heartheart

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helpfulSugar9 November 13th, 2016

@Isaac

Thank you for posting this. It's been a while since I've joined and I know how things work here but I should've seen this earlier.

hayesfan November 13th, 2016

This site is so helpful it has gotten me through so many aniexty attacks the people are amazing at what they do

Dinaskhalill November 14th, 2016

Helpful!

HarveyM January 10th, 2017

@blossombreathe

Now, you can redirect users here :P