To make it easier to get to your Inbox and Activity Streams, we have added the Inbox to the top level navigation.
Both the inbox and activity streams are great ways to easily find what interests you and reply to content and notifications right from the inbox.
By default there is a Connection Stream and Inbox. You can also setup custom Connection Streams.
The inbox can be to easily read and reply to anything your following, notifications, and direct messages.
Announcements and direct message are accessible from your inbox.
Inbox also supports read and unread items.
You can like or reply right from your inbox.
You get a visual indicator next to your avatar when a new item is in your inbox.
You must follow the item at the content/space/place level.
Not easy to see all the spaces, groups, content, and people from the inbox. Go to the Content, People, and Places tabs and filter by "Following".
Then you can unfollow any item from there.
Your inbox get busy when you try to follow too many thing in your inbox.
A connection stream is different. It shows an activity view and it configurable based on spaces/groups, tags, and people.
You can setup multiple connection streams (up to 10).
You can have multiple connection streams.
You can edit and add people, places, and tags right from the edit connection stream area.
You can like or reply right from your connection stream.
Recommended and trending content is shown.
Content is formatted in an activity format (that can be a + for some, and - for others).
Connection Streams do not support read and unread items.