Question 1

Testing and Fixing your Feed

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While you're building your feed, there are things you can do to test that it's working you way you want it to. Once you've published your feed, you may find that some posts are creeping in that aren't what you wanted. Here's how to test and improve your feed.

Previewing the Feed

Here we're going to create a feed in which we just want pics and videos of Harry Styles:

We'll start by setting up a basic feed that looks for text including Harry's name, tour and album names, and checks if the post has any of an image, video or gif.

First, while we are building the feed, we can hit the "Preview Feed" button to see what's currently falling within our feed instructions:

Note: be patient, it can take a couple of minutes to generate a live feed.

If our feed doesn't show us what we're expecting, we can go over to Bluesky and search for a post that we think should have made the feed.

Testing Specific Posts

Here's one that I think should be in the feed. It's a great photo of Harry:

But it's not in our feed. Why not? Let's grab the url for

Question 2

Creating Your First Feed

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Making our first feed

Let’s make our first feed. In your Graze dashboard, click the plus button to create a new feed:

We’re going to make a feed about my favourite disaster hockey team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. At this stage, all we need to worry about is the Feed Title, and the Feed Description.

We can also hit that plus button at the top beside the title and give our feed a cute avatar, which users will see on Bluesky.

Now we’re ready to get started. It’s time to hit the Create from Scratch button:

Using the Editor

Now we get our first look at the Editor, which we’re going to use in Canvas mode. It looks like this:

Note: if you're already familiar with JSON you can switch to the code version in the top corner. For the rest of us, let's carry on!

There are three parts to this we’re going to use. We’re going to edit the Feed description in the middle, telling it what we want to include and exclude, how we want our feed to

Question 3

Nodes for Beginners

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Let’s have a look at what the various nodes are that we can add to our feed. Be sure to check out Creating Your First Feed to learn how to combine these. If you're a developer comfortable working with JSON, you can check out our Editor Documentation.

You can find all the nodes in the menu on the left side of the Editor.

Let's go through each in turn, what settings are involved, and how they might improve your feed.

Logic

First up: the backbone of our feed - Logic nodes.

When we're starting out - our first Logic node should be set to All of these. This lets us specify all the things that must be included. In this example, we're going to create a feed that has pictures or videos of user's LEGO builds.

So we want the feed to include all posts including ("contains") our green word list and excluding ("missing") our red word list and meeting our content moderation requirements. Each of these individual nodes is discussed in more detail below.

Everything in the "All of These" node is required before a skeet will make the feed.

Then we can pop in a new Logic node, and add some Any of These logic. In this case we want to catch posts that (having met all our other requirements

Question 4

Migrating a Feed

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Let's walk through the process of migrating a feed you've built elsewhere onto Graze. We've built tools to make this as easy as possible!

When you migrate a feed to Graze, your likes and subscribers will come across and the feed will continue without interruption. The hosting will move to Graze. But we can't import the logic or settings you've used with another feed builder.

So, before you migrate a feed, you'll want to make sure you have the logic on Graze working the way you want it to, so your feed continues happily. The easiest way to do that is to build a test feed first.

Building a Test Feed

Before you bring your feed over, you can build a duplicate of it on Graze to make sure that the logic is working the way you intend it.

Let's start with this feed I've built on Skyfeed, which is designed to show posts about The Last of Us, both the video game and the tv series.

This feed has pretty simple logic. It includes posts in English, it looks for the text "TLOU" and "last of us", and it excludes replies. So, let's set up a test feed in Graze that does the same. If you haven't built a feed on Graze before, start with our guide to Creating Your First Feed, so that the below all makes sense.

We'll begin with our feed name and description (you can call this something like "testing" or "staging" if you prefer so it's not co

Question 5

Graze For Communities

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While custom feeds can be awesome to improve your own social media experience, they are also a fantastic way to build and grow communities. Let's look at some ways that Graze can help.

Sticky Posts

Once you've created your community feed, one of the simplest ways to start to build it is through using Sticky and Rotating Posts.

These posts can set the ground rules for your community, give members information, and promote other feeds they might be interested in.

We have a full guide to setting up Sticky and Rotating Posts here.

Member Opt In

You can use a Social Graph node to include all posts in your feed from members who have opted in to your community. To do that, specify a Bluesky account for your members to follow, and then add that account to the node:

You can then advertise to your community that it is opt-in by using a Sticky Post, the way that the Bikesky feed does here:

Subscription Lists

You can also make your community more private if need be, by making it viewable to members on a Subscription List.

Orientation Threads

One of the ways feed

Question 6

Sticky Posts

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What is a sticky post?

Sticky posts are posts that can be pinned or recur in your feed. Let's have a look at how to create them and what you can use them for.

To create a new sticky post, click the plus on the dashboard above your editor:

You'll then have the opportunity to choose to create a pinned post, or a rotating post:

By adding in the url of the skeet you'd like to promote, you'll be able to create a sticky post.

What can we use sticky posts for?

We might choose to pin a post to the top of our feed that contains some instructions or information about our feed.

For example, here's a pinned post at the top of the BookSky feed:

We might use rotating posts to provide information to the feed, or to cross promote other feeds of interest to our subscribers. For example, here the Urbanism+ feed uses a rotating post to promote the Urbanism labeler:

Tip: Here @fema uses the 🔁 repeat emoji to signal

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