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I hope it is just a temporary regression. Bookmarks with links are what I most frequently share to FriendFeed. - DeWitt Clinton

The backup plan - post to Delicious instead - fails because you can't share add images when sharing via Delicious. Which brings us back to: http://friendfeed.com/dewitt... - DeWitt Clinton

Oh no, it looks like they removed links entirely and even went back and retroactively changed all old posts to append links to the message. - DeWitt Clinton

The url metadata is still there for imported links (edit a delicious post, and you can see the url isn't in the text). But not being able to manually specify the url metadata is a major step backwards IMO. The bookmarklet and the "share" functionality are now a mess, for example images don't know where to link to. In the beginning of the beta release, some FFer said that they were debating bringing it back, but I guess they decided not to. - Daniel Sims

I'm pretty sad about this. It's a step away from where I hoped the product would go. I acknowledge that I am rarely, if ever, representative of popular opinion, so it might be a perfectly good overall decision for FriendFeed, but it will impact how much I personally use it. Sigh. - DeWitt Clinton

On a related matter, showing the URLs directly makes FriendFeed look so much more backwards, considering that URLs aren't necessarily meant to be readable. - Yoo Chung

Yoo, agreed, FF uses leading "http://xyz" string to recognize any url (will not enhance, say, tinyurl.com as some other clients might), yet doesn't do anything about it. I already suggested that, as a start, it ought to replace detected FF-internal ones with uniform "[ff]" hyperlinks, and "[#ff] for such with #anchors, and the outside ones with hyperlinked e.g. "domain/.../last-element-in-path-sans-suffix". - ianf ⌘

I get this the whole time, and if you think 35 comments is a lot, try a conversation of 300 over 3 days. It wouldn't be so bad for me if email replies worked solidly but as it is, it's a hit and miss - Divided By Zer0

You're "one of the people who love it". I would and have given up far much earlier than 300 comments ... - Yoo Chung

That's odd. The logs say that your comment was definitely not spam, and my own non-login test commenting worked. Was there any error message? Maybe there's something unexpected going on with "Anonymous posters must leave their contact information" ... BTW, thanks for the comment! Maybe I *will* try something for IntenseDebate and Drupal one of these days. :) - Yoo Chung

Nope, no error message. After pressing save I was simply redirected to the comment form with only the preview button available (as if I started typing) but with my text still in the form - Divided By Zer0

That explains it. I had made preview mandatory, but I didn't realize that Drupal didn't tell the user about it. I've made comment preview optional now. - Yoo Chung

Not exactly. I did go through the preview but then I had the option between preview and "save" and pressing save just took me back to the original form with only the preview again - Divided By Zer0

Crud. I have no idea what is going on, then. - Yoo Chung

It could be argued that you get payment in the form of getting the satisfaction of having a good relationship. Works well enough for a very small group of people, but it's not quite enough for society at large: there are just too many relationships for each person. And I'm too dumb to figure out what would be the analogous replacement. And if it takes hundreds of words to explain how it's supposed to work, I have grave doubts of its practicality without strong enforcement. - Yoo Chung

(Why can't I find the comment on the blog itself?) - Yoo Chung

To clarify, I can imagine how some laws, i.e. force, along with rewards and general good will can result in a happy society, and find a reasonable amount of such to be acceptable, but I don't see how societal pressures alone can work in a large society, and the metaphors haven't been particularly effective in convincing me otherwise. This wouldn't even be an issue if it weren't for the claims that communism would not require force nor rewards to function, unless I've been misunderstanding things hugely. - Yoo Chung

If you're more interested in features, you should use Vuze. It has a plugin system, for instance, which utorrent won't implement. - Tanath

Is it as memory and CPU "heavy" as Azureus was? - Saxtus

Pretty much. Vuze does not aim for a small signature, it aims for improving the whole torrent experience. For me, for example, it is a nice option that I can send torrents directly to people I've marked as "friends" in Vuze, that I can download a torrent and then Vuze can suggest a whole subscription for this torrent (as it did when it suggested the whole EZTV series for Heroes) and that I can host my own videos at full quality (similar to youtube) but also be sure that they won't be deleted. - Divided By Zer0

Does Vuze have a lot of good content? (long-time Azureus user for torrents, but is now wondering about video content) - Yoo Chung