Benjamin Golub

You can't hide room entries or your own; but everything else is fair game. - Benjamin Golub

Awesome news, thanks for the new feature! - Aaron Myers via Alert Thingy

Hey! You told me you won't code it tonight! :) Did the delete methods work? - directeur via NoiseRiver

Ben rocks. Now why isn't he working for FriendFeed and having his room and board paid for, with moving expenses? - Louis Gray

Awesome! - Bwana McCall

Nice. - Ben Parr via fftogo

Got an error! Nooo! "The FriendFeed API retuend a 403 (Forbidden) for that request. It is possible that FF To Go is being rate limited" - Bwana McCall

Yup; I'm getting a 403 now...which means it's being rate limited. - Benjamin Golub

I got this working for NoiseRiver as of yesterday :) I tell you folks: entries deletion and undeletion are coming too... they just aren't as stable as me and Ben want them to be :( - directeur via NoiseRiver

Ben, It works fine for me! These methods use authentication --you know that - directeur via NoiseRiver

It's possible that the FriendFeed team might not have meant for us to start using these API calls...if so I'm sorry FF. - Benjamin Golub

I'm sad if it's the case. I was playing with them since yesterday and even deletion worked and then it stopped... - directeur via NoiseRiver

Yes, you're right... it's now throwing 403 errors on NoiseRiver too :( - directeur via NoiseRiver

What is fftogo? The site doesn't have an about page. - Bjorn Tipling

@Bjom Mobile version of FriendFeed - James O'Malley via twhirl

Hide disabled until it becomes more stable/official; I'll enable it again later, promise! - Benjamin Golub

I'm sorry Ben, it worked for me since yesterday this is why I told you it was stable... - directeur via NoiseRiver

Doesn't friendfeed have a mobile version? They definitely have an iphone version. - Bjorn Tipling

No mobile version other than the iPhone version. - Benjamin Golub

perhaps it would be useful in the meantime to implement an individual entry hide implementation separate from the official FF hide? should be trivial because NoiseRiver is already filtering/hiding by keyword and fftogo should be easy to add a filter for entry ids per user. also would be easy to filter services and users/services, too. the foaf stuff gets a bit complicated, though. when (if?) the hide APIs are added officially, it should be easy to sync/transfer the hidden entries back to FF. - David Vasileff

David: You're actually right. Implementing "my" own version of hide should be easy and very doable for NoiseRiver. But I think that it would be in vain for two reasons: 1) I discovered almost by coincidence that "(un)hide" and "(un)delete" features are coming to the API and I integrated them to NoiseRiver and told Ben and Patrick (the guy behind MioNiews) about them. Alas it's as we may see very soon to be used. We're waiting for the official release so we can really use them. 2) Implementing our hiding won't be better than the FriendFeed Api's one because filtering from the source is always better than filtering before the display. - directeur via NoiseRiver

directeur, I agree with your point. I don't know if users are craving hide but if they were and APIs weren't going to be available for a while and it was a barrier to user adoption, it's something to consider. in any case, I think there is merit in having ability to hide separate from FF, perhaps more with fftogo, where mobile users might want to hide rich media posts or hide entries with lots of comments on mobile but still have them display on friendfeed.com - David Vasileff

damn couldn't even try it, well maybe next time - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Hide has been re-enabled! - Benjamin Golub

Yes! Saw Bret's email ! Delete works just fine too Ben :) - directeur via NoiseRiver