Do Activites have a time based life span?

[ChrisMyles]

My activities keep disappearing from my social bar, activities gadgets
and activities feeds after a couple of weeks!!

See http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/friendconnect/thread?tid=4f0a52b58c0b0fd9
for more details!!

[Ryan Boyd (Google)]

Hi Chris,

Yes, activities expire after 13 days currently.  This restriction was put in place for performance/latency reasons and we're evaluating the need/cost of changing it.

Can you talk a bit about the use case and why you want to see old activities?

Cheers,

-Ryan

[SV Billabong]

Sure.. when I visit a new site with a lot of pages, I want to be able
to find where the "action is" to start there or as a developer maybe I
was to create a gadget to highlight popular pages by extracting info
from the site activity stream.

For my own activities, I want to remember where I've been, what I've
been commenting on etc. Considering since there is currently NO way to
sign up for follow up comments, I use my own activity stream to re-
visit pages to check out followup comments. It is my social activity
history!!

Without a persistent single source activity stream (user and site) it
becomes VERY difficult to analyze or track social features to see what
people are using and how changes effect popularity etc (without
visiting the site and the specific gadget).

I'm also surprised at the time based nature of the limit (verses
number based). The popularity of some sites would have 1000's of
entries in 13 days while others may only have 5. If a user only checks
in everyone in a while or the site isn't THAT busy ..it will appear
even less popular (or broken) with the empty activity streams!!

I REALLY think this restriction should be documented, I was assuming
the activity data would always be available (at least from the
activity feed)!! I understand that no one is going want to see more
than 100-200 entries in a gadget, but analytics like data can easily
be mined from the activities feeds!!

On Aug 25, 7:55 pm, "Ryan Boyd (Google)" <api.rb...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Yes, activities expire after 13 days currently.  This restriction was put in
> place for performance/latency reasons and we're evaluating the need/cost of
> changing it.
>
> Can you talk a bit about the use case and why you want to see old
> activities?
>
> Cheers,
> -Ryan
>

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:52 AM, ChrisMyles <svbillab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My activities keep disappearing from my social bar, activities gadgets
> > and activities feeds after a couple of weeks!!
>
> > See

> >http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/friendconnect/thread?tid=4f0a52...
> > for more details!!

[SV Billabong]

Old is also relative .. if I have 200 activities a day, old is 2 days.
If I only post every once in a while, my activity from two months ago
doesn't seem old (to me).

I don't think there is a single social network that deletes user data
after a fixed time!!

Sure realtime twitter search does, but I can always access my specific
twitter activities (regardless of date)!!

I guess I was also thinking that at some point GFC would add some
additional social features (find your friends favorite sites, people
who liked this site also visited XYZ).

On Aug 25, 7:55 pm, "Ryan Boyd (Google)" <api.rb...@google.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> Yes, activities expire after 13 days currently.  This restriction was put in
> place for performance/latency reasons and we're evaluating the need/cost of
> changing it.
>
> Can you talk a bit about the use case and why you want to see old
> activities?
>
> Cheers,
> -Ryan
>

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:52 AM, ChrisMyles <svbillab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My activities keep disappearing from my social bar, activities gadgets
> > and activities feeds after a couple of weeks!!
>
> > See

> >http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/friendconnect/thread?tid=4f0a52...
> > for more details!!