[Chris Collins]

I am trying to query the activity for say 8 posts. I want to do the same thing for groups. So I went here

http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

And I found this line
if ( bp_has_activities( 'action=activity_update') ) : bp_the_activity();

and changed it to

if ( bp_has_activities( 'max=8') ) : bp_the_activity();

When I did this the browser keeps just listing duplicate content.

How can I do this?

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

I edited your post so we can see the code. Our fault, not yours.
Where are you placing this code?

[Chris Collins]

I am trying to place the code on a custom front page I am designing