Ive been re-thinking this panel. The code behind it is kind of bulky at the moment, Im trying to speed things up. Basically, what it current does is checks the database for the last 10 articles that were commented on or last created.

What I'm going to change it to, is create an activity table on the database, and just inject certain activity into it every time it's done. The current things I can think of that should go in it would be

1) Articles with latest comments
2) New created articles
3) New shout
4) New news
5) When a new member registers
6) When an article is edited

Those are basically content-based, not really any social interaction there. If enough people wanted it, I could make it tell you when someone updates their "About Me" info in their profile.. but for now we'll keep it content based.

Any ideas on how to expand this? Or even... does anyone have any ideas for the current panels? I don't think I'm going to make any new ones... Over the course of development, I'm hoping to kind of move the panels into a place where they can just be a site feature, and keep the panels at a very minimum. We'll see...