Create a Feed

Feeds are the backbone of all posts in your companion site. Each Feed is configured to monitor your Slack channel and control when and how messages are posted to the site. Feeds can be managed from the app settings under the Channels & Feeds section.

How to Access

You have the opportunity to create a Feed during the guided setup to activate a channel. You can also create a Tightknit Feed for an activated Slack channel by clicking the Create Tightknit Feed option within the dropdown menu of the channel settings.

Feed Settings

In the Feed creation modal you can configure the following settings:

• Selected Channel - The channel that this Feed will listen to for new messages.
• Feed Name - The name of the Feed.
• Feed Slug - The URL path for the Feed. Keep this short and simple (only use lowercase letters, numbers, or the following characters: - and _). Try not to change this often as it would break users' existing links and bookmarks.
• Preset - The Tightknit companion site UI display preset for the Feed. This is used during Feed creation to determine default values for display settings such as List View Display and Post Detail Display. The display values can be overridden in the optional settings below.
• Message Sync Settings - By default, Tightknit will sync all incoming new Slack messages and replies to the Feed, starting from the time that this setting is enabled. If you do not want to auto-sync messages (e.g., you prefer to manually sync select posts using the shortcut), uncheck this option.

Additional optional settings:

• List View Display - The default display setting for posts in the Feed list view, such as Snippet, Compact, or Card. Read more.

• Post Detail Display - The default display setting for the detail page of posts in this Feed, such as Discussion or Blog. Read more.

• Navigation Sidebar Emoji Icon - The emoji icon, such as 📡, that is displayed next to the Feed name in the Tightknit companion site sidebar using the Noto Emoji Google font (opens in a new tab). If none is set, the sidebar displays a default icon.

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  The Noto Emoji Google font has limited support across browsers. We highly recommend testing your choice of emoji in the Noto Emoji Type tester (opens in a new tab) within the major browsers.

• Navigation Sidebar - Toggle to show or hide the Feed from navigation menus, including the sidebar on the companion site.

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  Known Limitation: Private Feeds
  Note that even if a Feed is excluded from SEO and/or from the Navigation Sidebar, its posts can still appear in the Home feed and in user profile activity feeds. Private Feeds as a feature are coming soon!

• SEO Settings - Feeds that are unlisted are excluded from SEO, i.e. disallowed in robots.txt and excluded from sitemaps.

Once you have entered the details of your new Feed, click the Create button to create the Feed.