The exciting new feature is duplicate detection. - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

We are in the process of transitioning our servers this afternoon to accommodate the new feature, so there may be a hiccup or two in the meantime :) - Bret Taylor

Here we go! - Andrew Trinh

woohoo!! - Tim Hoeck

Where is Rick Astley? http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/245621b... - Andrew Trinh

Fantastic! This is a huge, HUGE deal. Looking forward to seeing it in action. - AJ Kohn

OH yes! Thank you!! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

awesome - i see it :) - Zee.

I'm wondering how it decides which entry to show and which to collapse. - Andrew Trinh

really cool... it's working now :) Is there any kind of priorities? Like FF entries take priority over Blogs, etc.. or is it first come, first served? - Tim Hoeck

hmm. first off, I <3 friendfeed. But I am kinda sad to see it go the way of all software getting more and more popular, it gets more and more complicated. I love the elegant simplicity of the V1 and hope that you guys can continue to improve the service and features while still maintaining the "light" and simple feel. I know we all struggle with it, but with every V2 product release I'm reminded of this general pattern in SW design. - Jenna Bilotta

I don't get how the duplicate feed works. If you look at the feed items for the two stories attached to this story, they don't have related links. Do they only show up on the home feed? Or does only the first story get the related links section? - Mark Trapp

The entry with the most recent discussion activity goes on top. - Bret Taylor

we don't need to use beta anymore :) new feature is totally awesome. thanks guys. - Baturalp Torun

(channelling corvida ...) awesomesauce! - Rob Diana

Better of discussion activity, having being put in the related entries will definitely kill that. - Andrew Trinh

Bret, awesome. Any chance of seeing this feature in contexts other than the main feed, like on profile pages and rooms? - Mark Trapp

What's the time length for dupe aggregation? A day? A week? A month? All time? - AJ Kohn

The feature will go live in profile pages and rooms soon. Rolling out this feature 100% will take a day or two, so right now, you will only see it on your home feed and friend lists, but we are actively working on transitioning our system so it is available everywhere. - Bret Taylor

Interesting: if you have something hidden, let's say all Google Reader entries without likes and comments, and that's the most recent activity for the link, the entire discussion goes from visible to hidden. Edit: cool, thanks Bret. - Mark Trapp

When will it be in the API? (I know, always the one with the stupid API questions) - Dustin

so this means on those rare days ping.fm actually works, i won't dupes in my feed? - Anika

Cool..very cool - Dave Peck

Very cool feature, only problem will be Twitterers and their love for tinyURL - Steven Cains

Cains: it detects tinyURL and other URL shorteners. It also groups reshares: *swoon* - Mark Trapp

Jawsome! - Phil G

Now that is impressive (Finally Calacanis will only take up 1 space when he makes an announcement) - Steven Cains

+1 Cains - Zee.

who does upgrades in the middle of the day? anyway, seems I am warming to the new layout pretty quickly. - Stewart Rogers

Hot damn - Christopher Galtenberg

What is the flash embed that is in the middle of the left hand side? - Thaths

Duplicate Detection - Yay! - Derek

Duplicate detection is nice,it will cut down a lot of noice - Steve Chou

in RSS feed you guys forgot to turn off the border of the icon depicting kind of feed recieved - Rohit Srivastwa