The employee intranet is 300 SharePoint pages and a link to Slack. Somebody in HR keeps saying it should feel "more social" and nobody on engineering has six months to rebuild it. You don't need six months.
What "more social" actually means
Strip the buzzword and it comes down to three things: announcements people can react to, comments that thread under posts, and unread badges that actually mark things as read when people catch up. That's not a social network — that's a feed. Which is exactly what Feeds ships.
Everything else the intranet already does — the org chart, the policies, the PTO request form — stays put. You're not rebuilding the intranet. You're giving it a discussion surface.
Drop Feeds in next to what you already have
One feed app per channel — HR, engineering, announcements, the Stockholm office — and the component can render any combination of them. Pass one uid or several, space-separated, and it merges them into a single stream.
<wy-feed uid="intranet-hr intranet-eng intranet-announcements"></wy-feed>Posts, replies, reactions, mentions, unread badges — all in the component. Give different employee groups different uid combinations on their landing page and you get scoped feeds without writing a filter layer.
Who posts what
Announcements go through HR. Engineering posts release notes. The Stockholm office posts about the fika schedule. Each area has its own feed app on the server; on the client you decide which apps a given user sees. One API for timeline, comments, and unread state — no grafting.
AI summaries of the week
Nobody wants to scroll through 80 unread posts after a week of vacation. Feeds ships an unread summary that collapses them into a paragraph — pluggable model, so you pick the one that fits your cost and compliance constraints.
What you don't have to build
- Unread tracking per user per post, with correct behavior across devices.
- A reaction pipeline that doesn't double-count on reconnect.
- Push hooks for the unread badges the mobile team is going to ask for.
The auth is the intranet's existing auth. The users are the users you already have. The feed is a component on a route. Ship it Thursday.