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The family activity feed

The family activity feed is a live timeline of what people in your family group are doing in Forktastic — recipes cooked, recipes added, cookbooks shared, ratings given. It shows up on the Family screen and gives you a casual, low-pressure view of what everyone’s eating without anyone having to send a message.

It’s also a useful trigger for “Hey, that pasta you cooked last night looked great, can I try it?” — without having to remember to ask.

What appears in the feed

The feed includes:

  • 🍳 Cooked — someone started Cook Mode and finished a recipe. (“Sarah cooked Garlic Butter Pasta”)
  • 📥 Added — someone imported a recipe into a shared cookbook. (“Mark added Tom Yum Soup to Weeknight Dinners”)
  • 📚 Shared — someone shared a new cookbook or recipe with the family. (“Mom shared the cookbook Holiday Baking”)
  • ⭐ Rated — someone gave a recipe a rating. (“Sarah gave Tom Yum Soup 5 stars”)
  • 💬 Commented — if someone left a review/note on a shared recipe.

Family activity feed

Events are ordered most-recent-first. The feed shows events from the last 30 days; older events are pruned automatically.

What doesn’t appear in the feed

To protect privacy, the feed never shows:

  • What you’ve added to your grocery list
  • What’s in your meal plan
  • Recipes in cookbooks you haven’t shared
  • Account-level changes (avatar updates, subscription changes, etc.)

If you cook a recipe from a private cookbook (not shared with the family), that cooking event also doesn’t appear in the feed.

Tapping an event

Tap any event to jump straight to the underlying content:

  • Tap a cooked or added event → opens the recipe
  • Tap a shared cookbook event → opens the cookbook
  • Tap the family member’s avatar → opens their profile within the family (display name, member-since date)

Muting the feed for yourself

If you’d rather not have your own activity broadcast:

  1. Open the Family screen.
  2. Tap the Family settings icon (gear).
  3. Toggle Share my activity off.

Your own cooking/adding/sharing will no longer appear in the feed for other members. You’ll still see theirs.

Note: even with activity-sharing off, recipes and cookbooks you’ve explicitly shared remain visible. This toggle only suppresses the event notifications about your usage.

Hiding events from a specific member

If a particularly active family member is dominating your feed:

  1. Tap their avatar in the feed or member list.
  2. Tap Mute activity.

Their actions won’t appear in your feed (but their shared recipes still do, and they can still see your activity normally).

Notifications

By default, Forktastic doesn’t push-notify you for every family event — that would get noisy. You can opt into push notifications for specific event types in Options → Notification settings:

  • “When a family member cooks one of my recipes”
  • “When a family member shares a new cookbook”
  • “When a family member rates one of my recipes”

See Manage notifications for the full notification options.