Activity Feed

Coordinators managing multiple peer mentors currently have no efficient way to monitor program activity in real time, leading to delayed responses to issues and missed opportunities for timely coaching or approval. An activity feed solves this visibility problem by surfacing relevant events in a single, prioritized stream, reducing the cognitive overhead of checking multiple separate sections. For organization administrators, the feed provides a live audit trail that supports accountability and quality assurance without requiring formal report generation. The feature strengthens the value proposition of the admin portal as the operational command center for the organization and increases coordinator engagement with the platform on a daily basis.

The feed is implemented as a paginated, server-rendered list fetched from a dedicated API endpoint that aggregates events from multiple source tables including activities, expenses, event_registrations, and audit_logs, joined and ordered by created_at descending with organization-scoped filtering. A cursor-based pagination pattern is used for efficient large-dataset traversal. Feed items are normalized into a unified event schema on the server before being rendered as typed feed cards on the client. Real-time updates can be layered via polling or server-sent events in a later iteration; the initial MVP implementation uses interval-based client refresh. Filtering state is managed via URL query parameters to support shareable filtered views.