I only have a couple of people on my GOG friends list, and they rarely ever actually play their GOG games (through Galaxy or otherwise). Recently, however, one of my GOG friends has been playing more GOG games through Galaxy. That's when I noticed, for the first time, the purple dot next to my username when I log in.

Curious, I clicked and noticed that there's an Activity Feed and that it had updates telling me the games my friend had played. Pretty cool! Poking around a bit more, I can "like" the feed items, see my own game play history, and even post messages to it a la Twitter. I'm normally not a fan of this sort of socialization, but for some reason, I did it on GOG. Perhaps that's because I like GOG so much and want to see it succeed, and I love seeing other people using Galaxy and playing GOG games.

I also noticed that if I click on a feed item of a friend playing a game, it shows me a comparison of my play time/achievements for that game vs my friends. Ok, that is *really* cool.

So, having discovered the Activity Feed and poked around it a bit, I've decided I like it! My only complaint, really, is that I don't have enough GOG-active friends to make it more useful. ;-) I'm tempted to open my profile to the public now, to generate more use out of my feed (read: let more people see and interact with me), but I'm not quite ready to that. I like the idea of the text posts, but for that, I use Player.me, and there's no cross-posting between the two (like there is between Player.me and Twitter). Then again, Player.me is more general, whereas I think I'd keep my GOG Activity Feed posts GOG-specific.

So that's my thoughts on the Activity Feed. What do y'all think? Do you use it? Do you like it? I'm curious, so let's discuss!

No

i wish I could turn the fucking thing off

The feature is the Devil because... just because... :P

Turned off ages ago.

How, without turning off everything else?

I turned off EVERYTHING and doubt there is any other way.

Do i make use of the activity feed ? Ofc not i don't even use my profile and i don't use internet social crap stuff either.

Saying this is no doubt going to cause no end of wailing and gnashing of teeth, but Steam definitely does it better. It's there, you're free to engage with it if you so desire, but it doesn't send you a notification every time one of your friends so much as scratches their ballbag with zero option of turning the fucking things off. Meanwhile, on GOG, I've had to purge my entire friends list just to make the incessant notification stop.

So yeah, not a huge fan of it, all things considered.

I've disabled my profile, one of the benefits of it is I got rid of the activity feed. The other is, when I click my username, I'm taken to my library instead of to a profile page.

Yes and no.

I guess I look at it, but what is there to really do on there? Is there anything to 'use'?
The only thing I'm actually curious about is gameplay time for some reason.

I use it to see what other people are playing. For inspiration.

Actually I don't find it bad at all (as long as it's private).

I can see a timeline of the enormous amount of time I waste on games and get depressed.

It's also a convenient way to link to posts and reviews. Well, at least it used to be, as since the website update game reviews (the most important activity on the site, in my opinion) don't show up on the Feed.

Another thing I'd change is showing big achievement pictures when you click on them when they are available (also applies to the achievement page on Galaxy). Some games (e.g. Kingdom Come: Deliverance) produce high quality, high definition achievement art that is reduced to a small icon.

I get notifications for friends' actions (at least earned achievements). Because of this spam I'm considering disabling my profile again — a shame since I have so many beautiful backgrounds and having an open profile with countless games gives credibility for trading.