That's a good question Chris. I'm not sure, but a lot of people weren't finding it there. - Paul Buchheit

It's still got the scary-scary factor: will clicking this button make the item go away forever? It doesn't, of course, but maybe if it had a little down-arrow (like More does), and the choices were in a little menu (like More has), then it would be less dangerous-seeming. On the other hand, maybe this isn't a big deal for posts I truly just want to disappear, and once I've used it once I'll know what I'm getting into. I could see being annoyed by the pop-up on repeated use, though. - ⓞnor

My only complaint is that it's right where I keep expecting the "Like" link to be, right to the left of "More". I'll get used to it. I think ⓞnor is on to something with the drop-down idea, though. BTW, when will those menus detect when they're at the bottom of the window and flip up to avoid it? - Voyagerfan5761

Seems to me there could be just three buttons/icons: a pen, a plus, and a minus. Under pen, that's comment. Plus would include Link and Like. Minus would include Unsubscribe and Mute. - Adam Lasnik

I think it would be right to add ... near Hide link to indicate that is will show a dialog. Or make presentation similar to More link, with popup, and show same arrow. And I believe it is right step to extract Hide link to top level, thanks! - Kirill Maximov

thanks for this feature! it will help keep the page tidy and remove the ones we are not interested in reading further. Hope the prompt, after clicking hide, won't be necessary though. - Janette Toral

I don't have a strong use for it. I'd rather have an "I've Read This" feature that hides a post, but will reappear if it gets commented on. Because even posts I don't care about might get comments that I do care about. - Bill Bittner

I'd also like to put in a vote against icons. I think FF has a good balance of icons and text. Very...dare I say...Google-ish. - Bill Bittner

I'd like to second Bill's vote for a link that tells FriendFeed, in effect, that "I'm done with this" and removes it from my feed unless someone makes a new comment on it. - Voyagerfan5761

Looks like an improvement, but here are my comments. 1) You don't know whether clicking Hide will immediately do something. The three dots following the entry as you did it previously was a subtle indicator for "another dialog pops up with furter questions, don't worry." May be OK to ignore that downside, tho, dunno. 2) Please hide all the explanations in the dialog in an expandable "+ Tell me more?" link *below* the action button. 3) May wanna put cancel action into top right of the dialog as X (additionally, or exclusively). - Philipp Lenssen

I like it here. It is one of the more important features for filtering the "noise". I've told people time and time again how to filter data and almost everyone I talked to didn't know it was under "More". (or "Options" before that) Now it's about as obvious as it can get. I also like the wording in the dialogue and that the default behavior will NOT hide entries that have comments and likes. This is definitely a better behavior overall imho. Great job as usual guys. - Bwana McCall

Actually, I kinda like this HIDE feature, however I do feel a bit insecure. What if someone made a great comment ... i will miss that. Perhaps HIDE could just hide the comments and the pictures but leave the headlines. What do you all think? - Christopher Yeo

Christopher: The default behavior will "unhide" entries once they are commented or liked. That's the beauty of it, you won't miss the great comments. - Bwana McCall

Bwana, this was the default behavior, but it's not anymore. The new dialog seems to make "even if it has comments or likes" selection the default (if you opt to hide these types of entries, that is). - Philipp Lenssen

PS (unrelated): Ouch, when you type a comment and then accidentally hit the "Comment" link (before posting) your typed stuff will disappear, and won't come back if you click "comment" again. - Philipp Lenssen

Hide does not appear on http://friendfeed.com/paul tab - Shakeel Mahate

Doesn't work on Google.com/ig very well. - Sam Davyson

Phillip: It isn't the default behavior if the entry already has comments or likes, which in that case it shouldn't be :) FF detects if the entry has comments or likes and changes the default checkbox appropriately. - Bwana McCall

It seems to me that there are three steps to hiding: 1) When you hide something, it gets replaced with the message: "Entry hidden..." Also, at the bottom, there is a link that says "Refresh to view hidden entries." Then if you click on Refresh, this happens... 2) All the "Entry hidden messages..." are hidden as well. Then a link appears at the bottom "Show (number) hidden entries. Clicking on this does this... 3) Shows the hidden entries at the bottom of the page, under a separating line. It works, in a fashion, but may be just a bit more complicated than it could be. - Bill Bittner

And I guess there's another way to accomplish what "Hide" does. Choose "Like" for every post that seems interesting. Then, add a quick link to the "both" link (shows posted that you liked or commented on) under the "Discussion" section in your "Me" tab in your browser bookmarks. That's what I do. I have both the basic FF view and the "both" view in my browser links and toggle between both. - Bill Bittner

I like what Bill Bittner has said. - Mike Reynolds

I notice that the position of the pop up seems to update with JS on browser window scroll (hence a bit of a delay). Why don't you use CSS position: fixed to keep the pop up in the centre of the browser? Is it an issue. I only ask cos I'm using it ;-) - Alex Gawley

I like it, and will probably use it more often now - Aviv

I am amazed at your speed I am now hiding all the twitters - Varun Mahajan

ⓞnor - I imagine the down-arrow will come when they add lots more "hide" options. Paul, how about some popup mouseover text on the hide button that says "don't worry, it's not dangerous, and it's easily undone"...lol - Slippy Lane

I cannot hide this entry! lol - Russellreno

Same here, hide stopped working. Can't hide anything anymore. Halp! :( - Bwana McCall

I found one. I like it. - Russellreno

Paul, is there a limit to the # of hidden items? It seems I've hit a limit. I can't hide anything else unless I unhide a previous hidden entry. - Bwana McCall

I like! Although I'm still holding out for a "only show stuff from my friends, never my friends' friends" mode... - Benjy Weinberger

Too afraid of miss something good unfortunately. - Vince DeGeorge

Oh, and this bit - [Entry hidden - Undo Hidden entries can be found in "show hidden items" at the bottom of the page] - sheer brilliance. - Slippy Lane

@Benjy - well, it appears you can do that for each of your friends individually. I don't imagine a global option will be far behind :-) - Slippy Lane

hide should also exist when on a comment page (oddly enough, comment does appear). I often get pulled from an rss feed to the comment page and hide is often the option that I'm looking for. - Ashton

Bwana, try again, it should be working. Sorry for the trouble. - Paul Buchheit

Yup, it's working again. Thanks! - Bwana McCall

I like Bill Bittner's workaround. I found myself doing that more and more - Christopher Yeo

how about filter view? rather than hide. As in how do I show it again? - martin ollman

may i see who hides me? : ) - Erhan Erdogan

I'm looking for a 'read' function - Joel

Love it! I second the "read" function stated above. Will the RSS feed reflect these settings? If not, then that would be a cool next step. - Phil Ashman

Did you decide to remove the Mute feature under More? - Turker Keskinpala

I hide no one... - Anthony Farrior

How about a "time span" setting if i want to see just the activity in one or more hours? - Anthony Farrior

Great signal:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Vacation time! - Bwana McCall

I think Lou's idea of showing Public Google Calendar entries onto FriendFeed is a good idea.. - Vishal M

Actually, that is a great idea. And the GData API makes it dead simple. We use it at work in an irc bot. - Benjamin Golub

Meetings kill. - Sacca

speaking of Google API, is there away to pull your Google Book Library into FriendFeed or plans? - Derek Coatney

Google tenure seems to have prepared you well for this significant (emerging) Friendfeed success. - Alex Hammer

Awesome! - Ross Miller

Works great. When one clicks on advanced search, please keep the current query in the box though. (E.g. someone just may want to switch from "friends" to "everyone" but keep the same query.) Quote search would be nice too, it seems to be ignored right now. Also nice you offer an feed for results, though it kind of takes the fun out of screenscraping :) - Philipp Lenssen

this immediately gives one leg up over twitter - MG Siegler

Maybe you should only show the comments that include your query and also search the shared posts. - Ionut

Yay! and mmmmm bacon cookies. - Ginger Makela

@Bret That is funny! Does this mean all my requests are implemented in a matter of hours? : )) - Carla Thompson

He he, yah Carla, Jim types reeeeally fast :) - Bret Taylor

Outstanding.. Thanks! - Johnny R

Philipp, "quoted strings" seem to do the expected thing for me.. - ⓞnor

that's superb! - Jansen Lu

no ability to ego search, though. Or so I heard from, uh, a friend ;) - Adam Lasnik

aww i like the photo of jnorris - ƃuɐʞ

FriendFeed just leveled up! Good job guys! - Bwana McCall

Nor, it might be just the bold highlight that's wrong then (it highlights word parts instead of the full phrase). - Philipp Lenssen

I underestimated the coolness factor of the new search until I searched for john adams to see what people thought of the hbo show, found some people who loved it, and discovered some cool people who have similar tastes that I never would have probably been aware of otherwise. Love it. I'm sending ya'll a box of cookies. - Ginger Makela

jim++ for search! i tried to use the friendfeed bookmarklet to share jim's superman photo but it vomited some broken HTML in the top right corner of the page. - Jess Lee

Man, you know what's funny? Yesterday night I posted about how Friendfeed *so* needed to get filtering and search - 24h later, here it is! I am delighted! http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2... - Fred Oliveira

Search is great and will make a big difference. There is still a great need for filtering as well. When I say filtering I mean service filtering, This would help with service redundancy. - Turker Keskinpala

Hey Bret ... congrats on the continued evolution ... didn't hear from you the other day, but figure you may not have my digits. So if easier, just DM me on Twitter or old fashioned email great too: cathy[at]seesmic[dot]com ... truly looking forward to talking with you! - Cathy Brooks

i was beginning to get worried that a company founded by people with good google dna would not add search :-) now i need to find some other feature to request..maybe de-duplicaiton of shared items? - Charles Hudson

love the photo! - Anne Bouey

@charles hudson. er, twitter? - Eric Eldon

Turker, service filtering is reportedly on the list... - Philipp Lenssen

Philipp, thanks for the heads up. Is there a place to track that list that I don't know off? - Turker Keskinpala

Can I mark a comment as "likes"? - Neo Zhang

/me likes comment by Neo Zhang - 59mm

@Turker: for the time being you can use script for greasemonkey: http://friendfeed.com/e/da7432... - 59mm

Great to see you guys constantly adding really important features, in very short order too. - Dion Almaer

FriendFeed has consistently been moving up my bookmark heiarchy. First, it was in a folder in my links bar. Today I moved it out of a folder and into the links bar as a single link (which is a very exclusive club.) Soon, it may even be made my home page! And all this within 24 hours! - Bill Bittner

I just realized, I don't even have it as a bookmark.... because it's always in an open tab! On a somewhat related note anyone know why the browsers don't just remember their state when they exit? - Chris White

Chris, Firefox has an option to "Show my windows and tabs from last time". I wish that were the default. I used to kill -9 it to get that behavior (because I didn't notice the option either). Eventually someone told me about the option... - Paul Buchheit

Paul, yeah I've used that before. Safari has it also. They really should allow this as the default, and using kill -9 is pretty funny. :) - Chris White

Tab Mix Plus' session saver is better than Firefox's (imho). - Tormod Haugen

I have the mobile verision of FF (http://friendfeed.com/embed/go...) so I can make the page any width and wrap, and I put in the Outlook browser. I have a wide monitor and usually have my inbox on the right side. Now I have FF on the right side, and click to my inbox when mail comes in. However, I haven't noticed if the feed will auto-refresh. - Bill Bittner

Looks like it not longer auto-refreshes under Safari 3.1. - Steve Rubel

Wow. Whole new world of functionality! Oh, Chris and Paul - I find the Google Browser Sync addon's session management even better than Firefox's AND TabMixPlus' - Slippy Lane

cool - qian

If there are any devs still listening to this thread, I'd like to suggest a universal search box that's available on every page, whether it's everyone, a specific person's feed, or even just one item. The single-item pages are missing a search box right now, and there's no link to the search page in the header. The same kind of box as is available elsewhere (the short one on the right) would be perfect. - Voyagerfan5761

becoming dependent on the search feature with sticky search and other gm scripts, i really really REALLY need a hide feature in search results please. plus agreed on the search box everywhere - use an additional dropdown for where to search. ;) - Nicole Simon

What would you want the hide feature to do there? - Aviv