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Maybe instead of auto updating have a button to refresh the stream to load in new entries. This would avoid pop in and avoid unnecessary hits to the server.

If auto updating is implemented possibly implement a pause state for a stream. This should pause the updating if an entry is active or you are typing a new entry. This prevents your place from being lost.

This should poll for new activity using a date range of the latest activity against the current timestamp. This removes chance of duplicates and limits the parsing as minimal as possible. Interval that it polls should be configurable. It should give up after so many failed polls (no results) or a time period (or both?). The give up should also be configurable.

Comments could use this as well, but if you've 30 comment streams rendered it'd be 30 HTTP requests. Instead it needs to batch those HTTP requests into a single call. That could be tricky so comment auto updating maybe disabled initially.

The requests can be batched by the jQuery. A new endpoint will be needed, but that's easy enough. It'll need to send 2 arrays (1 for activity streams and 1 for comment streams) with the stream id as the key and the most recent entry timestamp as the value. This means 1 HTTP request can be done to handle updating all streams on the page. It'll be easy to keep track of this just using a global array in the CB Activity jQuery namespace (like instances already does).