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We just launched a new backend system for FriendFeed that should make things a lot faster. Let us know if you see any problems or unusual changes in your feed. Thanks!
Nenko Ivanov, Vinko, Javid★ and 184 other people liked this
even faster? :)
- directeur
Even faster :)
- Bret Taylor
is it like the backend of the new mac mini -- 80 USB ports?
- MG Siegler
You're crazy. I'm in the 3rd world with a 128kbits/s and it's the fastest site after google! :)
- directeur
Increasing the number of USB ports was vital to this upgrade :)
- Bret Taylor
Nice... you were doing what I was doing today... see you can make major upgrades WITHOUT down time. Nice Job FF!
- Brian Roy
Ok! Being behind a proxy makes my way somehow difficult but not that bad, I'll comment on that with stats if I see changes. Thanks Bret!
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Without a downtime, great! FF for president ;) Maybe you can give us an insight into Friendfeed's architecture?
- Waldemar Schott
I will write something up at some point in the near term. Maybe after it has been running for a couple weeks so we know it works like we think it will :)
- Bret Taylor
Hopefully this helps with the lag time that I'm seeing from Twitter. I like using FF as a Twitter client; it's been tough lately with tweets taking over a half hour to get here. Nonetheless, well-done, guys. :)
- Jared Smith
faster in what respect Bret?
- Zee.
Sweet bejeesus, you guys rock! I like new features without taking down the whole site. This is efficiency baby.
- Scott Jarkoff
Zee: loading your home feed, especially if you have many subscriptions, will be a lot faster. In general, viewing feeds with lots of people in them is much faster.
- Bret Taylor
Bret, what about the RSS machinery? Will it fetch more feeds more often?
- directeur
That is somewhat independent of this change, directeur. However, it should improve feed publishing a bit over the course of the next fews weeks as we completely decommission the old system - it will improve some aspects of our publishing throughput. However, most of the feed fetching improvements are coming as sites like BrightKite and Identi.ca adopt SUP (http://simpleupdateprotocol.go...)
- Bret Taylor
one of the reasons I use ff so much is that I can often open a new tab, load friend feed, and read a couple of entries in the time it takes for some other site to load; nice to see that speed remains a priority :-)
- Karl Rosaen
Thanks for the details Bret, I like the SUP concept and I actually use it on my Jazz blog and on SocialWhois too :)
- directeur
Bret great to hear:) Keep up the great work.
- Rob Cairns
Improved performance? Bret, it's like you're reading my mind.
- Nick Dingle
Fast is better than slow, after all :)
- Joel Webber
Bret - good stuff. Any effect on the delayed Twitter feeds? Or is that out of FriendFeed's hands?
- Hutch Carpenter
Yeah, we need way more USB ports! LOL :)
- Susan Beebe
i have not found FF faster at China
- 阿石
It was quite fast to start off with, didn't notice any big differences. (Good nor bad)
- Umit Namli
2Bret: According to Alexa traffic graph, FF doubled its traffic in this week. Is it real and if its real what was the reason for that? If its not confidential, May be you can share with us :)
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
Ömer: Alexa is like a Ford T, it's a bit old. Don't know what to make of that service.
- Umit Namli
Damn, now it's _too_ fast.
- Robert Konigsberg
Bret: you guys rock. Friendfeed is so freaking fast.
- Davide D'Incau
Now FF is so fast I'm seeing posts from next friday.
- dario
FF is Fantastic.
- Russellreno
♥FF!
- Mattb4rd
I still seem to get the FF is unavailable screen quite a bit. I'd say about 50% of the time when trying to do searches, filter by service (especially FF itself) or look at best of day. Usually after getting the unavailable screen if I refresh one to five more time eventually the page loads. Annoying though.
- Thomas Hawk
What? was FF slow??
- Andru Edwards
Thomas: yah, your account has been a stress test for our system for a variety of reasons. We hope to make progress on the Best of Day and search ASAP, and I will let you know. Sorry for the trouble.
- Bret Taylor
w00t!
- mike fabio
from twhirl
Great work. I second the fact that it is only second to Google homepage in load-time
- Varun Mahajan
Very cool, kudos!
- Dave Martin
Woo-hoo!
- Joey Gibson
@Bret: is this update related to the stuff mentioned in your 'Schema-less MySQL' post?
- MikeAmundsen
Mike: yes, the new backend uses the approach described in the schema-less MySQL post
- Benjamin Golub
Woot! (Does that explain my excitement well?)
- Danielle Closs
Friendfeed gets fast, Twitter gets slow; all on the same day.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
really? dosen't feel any differences.
- Lira.H.C
Apparently I left the filter in Seattle, I'm being quite mouthy tonight. - http://brightkite.com/objects...
Don Nunn liked this
Survey: What % of your media is consumed in electronic form? For me it's 95%.
John Helmus, Darcy, Sean McBride and 12 other people liked this
What all are we considering media? I still have a bunch of meatspace books...
- Chrimmus Tad
what other media is there? (almost honest question)
- Ruben Llibre
@Tad my 5% print is books.
- Steve Rubel
Easily 95%.
- Liana Lehua
I actually print out FriendFeed pages. I'm the only one?
- l0ckergn0me
@Chris Pirillo I have someone read it to me every night.
- Steve Rubel
90% when at work or home, 70% when traveling
- Ontario Emperor
Holy Cow - I wish I could go mostly digital, but until I can buy digital books with the same DRM as meatspace books I'm sticking with dead trees. I should be able to resell, trade and borrow books. As for magazines, if Zinio would just add some more titles I could be 100% digital in that realm.
- Chrimmus Tad
Bordering around 98% for me.
- Mike Fruchter
95%
- Rich
The only non-digital media I consume now is non-technical books (still prefer reading good hardcover books and magazines (business week, HBR) when I fly.
- Deepak Singh
Deepak - BusinessWeek is available via Zinio - I subscribed a while back and I've been loving reading it on my computer.
- Chrimmus Tad
books are all that's left for me too. and i dont think they count for 5%. i read half a book or more daily (if you add up all webreading).
- Ruben Llibre
@Tad I like the Web version of Zinio.
- Steve Rubel
Don't know about a percentage, but the only non-electronic medium for me is books. Everything else is digital.
- Zio Bonino
better question might be how often do you consume non electronic media. I do that every day and would really miss the newspaper if I didn't have it at least once a week. I also like pottery and theater, two other media :) But 95% electronic is probably a low estimate.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I work completely online so I comsume most media electronically, but I spend an hour in the morning with the papers and at least two hours reading per day. Except during the NBA finals.
- Ralph Poole
from twhirl
I agree, I'd say at least 75% in my case, and most of my print media consumption is due to my work or a few pubs. that still don't have great online content yet.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I like my mp3's, but I love my vinyl. I like sitting in front of my laptop skimming various things from FF, but i love reading a great book at the end of the day.For me, it's not about percentages, it's about the differing emotional impact of the two sides of the equation.
- Iain Baker
99.9%
- Mark Forman
98% digital. I haven't touched newsprint in a long, long, time.
- Thomas Hawk
98% - I only buy my Sunday Times on sundays
- Roberto Bonini
magazines are pretty much the only non electronic media i find myself looking at. And usually they come with a dvd so...98% maybe more.
- Squid
with the exception of books for weekend reading, it's pretty much 100%.
- Michael Gartenberg
In terms of words per week - probably 99%.
- Andrew Garrett
I'd probably be at 95% or so. There are a couple of magazine/journal subscriptions I still like to read in print.
- J. McConnell
95% or more for me. Books and an occasional magazine, otherwise all electronic.
- Don Nunn
95% - The only print items I read are a few magazines and the Sunday newspaper.
- Michelle Martinez
Let's see? I read a book at night...but that's it.
- Laurent Courtines
from twhirl
Probably 90%, I read a bunch of magazines, and constantly have a pen and paper handy, but the amount of magazines I read is dwarfed by the amount of reading I do on the computer (~20gb of e-books, ~50gb of music, granted flac's take up much more space than mp3s); Side note, gotta agree with melmcbride (~10 above me) and say that the newspaper is short, uninformative, and worst of all, old news nowadays (At least in a magazine an article can be expanded on to complete the idea).
- Mike Seman
Still a lot of books and magazines but I'd say about 70%
- Andrew Smith
95%
- Kipp Bodnar
Another vote for 95% electronic -- only books, the Sunday NYT, and a bimonthly issue of Cook's Illustrated.
- Nancy Sagar
70/30, if I'm out I still get a paper copy of USA Today, and have time and newsweek coming here.
- BCK
80% electronic [20% books].
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Would have to be at least 80% I heard a stat yesterday that digital media is consumed in volume 14 times that of print!
- Luke Harvey-Palmer
I'm definitely in the 95%+ range. No question.
- Jeff "RESPRES" Turner
from Alert Thingy
99% for me. Sunday paper is the last non-electronic media bit.
- Kevin C. Tofel
For me, 95% electronic. That would cover internet & computer, TV, radio, etc. The other 5% for me is books, newspapers, and a couple dead-tree magazines I still subscribe to.
- Paul Short
about 85% (15% 10min newspaper a day and one magazin left per month, sometimes books, but most of them audiobooks these days)
- Wolfgang Luenenbuerger
i'm at about 95 percent too but i'm not sure how proud i am of that fact.
- sean808080
from twhirl
Probably about 75% - still read a LOT of books in print (tho' have a kindle) and newspapers & tons of print magazines. Increasingly digital on the magazines since some are just starting to offer them. But books to me will be both digital, but always room for a real in print physical version. I love them. I'd rather fall asleep with a book than a kindle or mp3 player on my lap!
- Paul Greenberg
85 percent. I skim the real WSJ and KC star daily, but for anything I truly commit to reading, is through my reader. I do, however, get a chunk of NPR in during the morning commute.
- Jarrod Morgenstern
I don't think there's anything to be ashamed about reading some stuff in print. For some material, print can't be beat.
- J. McConnell
I'd put it at 85-90%, given the amount of books and mags I try to consume. Curious how the digital breaks down for the 95%ers: TV v Computer v Mobile.
- Stephen Winkler
I'd say 75%. But that's because I can't give up the books!
- Simon Bisson
from twhirl
I'm 80% digital: 65 computer, 10 radio, 10 books, 5 Blackberry/txt, 5 TV, 5 newspaper/magazine. (I'm counting satellite radio as digital.) TV, newspapers and magazines are time-killers, though - not must-do's.
- Sarah Morgan
Online: World News: 90%. Local News, 5%, Industry News, 85%. Sitting down with a book or magazine feels like a holiday. Comprehension and absorption are higher with print, however.
- Dana Lookadoo
95% Only dead tree stuff is books and the occasional magazine that isn't otherwise online.
- Jim Graham
I don't think that I could ever give up print media entirely, unless that is eventually made mandatory by the death of print media itself (knock on wood), so I still consume a vast variety of books, newspapers, and magazines on a daily basis in addition to my consumption of electronic media. I'd say my percentage is around 65%.
- Atherton Bartelby
60% - i started to read more dead tree stuff again lately.
- Ralph
Gee, friendfeed commenters are more digital than traditional... Chalk me up as not surprised. To contribute to the noise, 95% internet media: free weekly newspapers are way more valuable for most local events than online media.
- Bjorn Stromberg
I avoid paper like the plague, but I do read the occasional recommended book.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
about 70-80%
- edythe
98% or more, including technical books, technical papers, popular fiction, magazine and newspaper articles, etc. I used to be drowning in paper documents -- now my space is nearly paper free, and I love it. I currently have a few hundred ebooks stored on my Samsung Blackjack, including weighty tomes on linguistics and suspense novels.
- Sean McBride
70% - the other 30% would be books
- Glenn Dixon
Still read print newspapers and weeklies, paperbacks for the commute, and dusty old books in the smoking room. But I have enough feeds to make that teetering pile small and have to go with 90% ...
- Ashton
I too read books on my commute so maybe 20% books, 80% electronic. I very rarely read print magazines or newspapers anymore. I live in Google Reader.
- Wm Morris
50% print - 50% online
- John
I still read books... but I think I would read them faster if they were an etext
- Noah David Simon
About 50%. I will love holding broadsheets like the IHT, Financial Times, Guardian, Weekly Telegraph. Long form copy doesn't lend well on the Web - when I want short and sweet, I go online; otherwise, I read papers and pubs.
- Darcy
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