FF is a flood of info & Filters are a MUST. Share your doubts, filters, searches and related tips here. A Primer on FF filters (MUST READ) - http://sn.im/gdmxs
Gawd, this room is as dead as everything else. *blows dust off desk* Does anyone know if there is a search operator that will let you search your friend's profiles for key words? Like if someone wanted to find all the "Social Media Experts" they follow?
depressing when i search mine. it was all razed and replaced with parking lots and filling stations and, in one case, the new city hall.
- Joe Silence is not dead
This actually turned up some really good vintage photos, prints, and postcards... i put it on slideshow and just watched for a while
- Chris Heath
Scheduled Saved Searches: The Next Big Update to Saved Searches ( to be used together with the "Subscribing to Saved Search" feature suggestion here --->- http://friendfeed.com/ffss... )
Scheduled Saved Searches [ feature suggestion ]: Your subscriptions and Friend-of-a-Friend(FoaF) get you content and content "recommendations" on your homefeed. Now, with "scheduled" Saved Searches content "filtering" comes into your home feed as well. Schedule the updates from your favorite people, groups, events, conferences and anything else you are interested in at a time that is comfortable to you and stay on top of your interests always. Since the updates flow into your feed at a time of your choice, you won't miss them; and since the updates are clumped together by topic, you can settle into a rhythm while friendfeeding. The audio attached to this post explains this in a little more detail.
- vijay
lol @ the smiley Ahsan :D. Just putting the idea out there, FF isn't the only one who can use this; openff can implement this too. Realistically, yes, it'll be a long time before this happens.
- vijay
All they gotta do is hook it up to the email system (yeah, right) :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
OK, this was cool. I wanted to see how scobleizer replies to twitter comments. So, I asked for all tweets not by him but with a reply from him. http://friendfeed.com/search...
I don't really have this as a saved search. This was research to see how one person manages his FF/Twitter interaction. But it does show off the sort of thing you can do with FF search.
- Don Faulkner
was using 'fresh' - to put abit of color on my stream - just changed to 'Helvetica' - to try it out.
- Chris Clayton
I hadn't tried any of the themes until I saw this thread. Just ran through what's available and have to say I like Helvetica, too. Simple, clean interface.
- Will King
That's a good question :) A Home Feed is not exactly a list (it doesn't have a list name)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
But if you really wanted to, you could simulate that with: friends:tomit -list:abc -list:xyz
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Or I guess I could make a list that is a copy of my home feed. That's just a lot of trouble. I just wish it was a searchable item.
- tomit
from email
Yes, that's what I'd do. Personally, I don't have anything on my Home Feed. I have 25 lists, plus a Firehose list (with all subscriptions)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
New Saved Search - Search for comments by FriendFeeders in the Feedback room - http://friendfeed.com/search... Sometimes you get those tidbits about what they're working on ;)
hey, I just noticed something cool. Do a search with room:something and FF auto-changes room to group when it is _saved_. I know it's trivial, but ... cool ! :P
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
#STICKY : The Official FF Filters list. *note to admins - edit this post & add new filters as they come in, thanks :) Also, all comments in this post that aren't filter links have to be edited out.
Top Photos on FF that aren't *liked* by you yet(replace koltregaskes in the URL linked here with your login-name) - http://sn.im/gdlr4
- vijay
Re-tweets from your friends and groups, with links (and are not thank yous): http://bit.ly/sEwRP - change the "friends:koltregaskes" with your username.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ok, so I want to do a saved search for DM's from people on a specific list. Say the list is called "Meat Space Friends". I want to go to a saved search for DM's from people on that list.
I remember Ahsan doing stuff with lists. Maybe he can offer a hint.
- vijay
Well, I was about to say it's impossible until I played with it. It seems to accept from:yourfriendsnick to:yournick !! A new parameter that is not documented ?! However, you can't search for DMs from people on a list. I'm going to post this 'discovery' in a few more rooms
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan - would from:groupname to:yournick work?
- Matthew DeVries
Actually, if it's a list it would be "to:YourUsername list:ListName"
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No - those don't work either. Tina's search should work (theoretically) if your DMs are appearing on that list's FOAF.... Needs to be tested
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
FYI I just added Matthew to a list and tried "to:YourUsername list:ListName" and it works properly.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, it doesn't work for me. I have a DM from someone who is on my Favourites list. So I did: to:highandwild list:favourites and I got nothing.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Did it pull just my DM's Tina, or did it pull all of my posts?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, what you could do is ... just to:dariusmdev but that will include DMs from all your friends ...
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Neither, actually =/ It pulled in posts you'd made to your mainfeed and CC'd to me, but not the DMs you'd sent to only me and not the posts you'd made to your mainfeed that were *not* CC'd to me.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Well damn. I guess we need to put this into requests then.
- Matthew DeVries
True, but based on how lists work the current functionality is great. Searching a list searches the posts in that list, not posts *from people* in that list. So with the current function, the search results I got were valid, it returned posts in List X that were to:myusername. DM posts never showed in List X, so there's no way for them to come back in that search.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think adding a DM search operator would be easiest for them, but I'm not a DB person.
- Matthew DeVries
Aha, I tried Tina's search on another list where I've been crossposted to. It works. To summarize, it will show cross-posts but not private DMs.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
So, the problem you guys are running into is that the feeds for DMs and Lists don't overlap. By doing 'to:me list:listname' you are adding an implicit 'and' meaning that the entry would have to show up in both the list and your DM feed. This can't happen unless the post is cross-posted. If you're looking for posts from a set of people, you can try 'to:me from:nick1,nick2,nick3,etc...'....
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- Ross Miller
Ross, I think the issue is that people create a list, say 'Favorites', and those are the people they're truly interested in keeping up with. They would like to be able to see all posts from their favorites (which you can do when you visit the list) and sometimes they'd like to see all DMs from that list of favorite people. Unfortunately, to do that we have to do double the work: first...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Totally, I agree. Maybe a link to the search at the top of the list is in order. I just wanted to share the current method to search for DMs. Great suggestion!
- Ross Miller
I have a search for my posts with no likes where I am the only commenter (-likes:1 comments:1 -comments:2 comment:alexscrivener from:alexscrivener) I have another for my posts with comments or likes (comments:1 OR likes:1) from:alexscrivener. How can I subtract the first from the second, so that I get my posts with comments or likes, unless I am...
Hmm, by definition it's already excluded... The first one searches for posts without any likes, the second one searches for posts with at least one like, hence it shouldn't overlap. I suggest this: from:alexscrivener -likes:2 OR -comment:2 which will get all posts with exactly one like or exactly one comment. Try it out.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Fwd: I like to search for stuff related to php but not in url, because a lot results are like http://a.com/a.php which i don't want in the results? Does anybody know if it is possible to filter these results out. Thanks (via http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
Well, the OR operator there isn't quite working the way I thought, it's finding your posts that you've commented on in Android but not the posts from other people...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
From my desk, I see nothing. It must require different syntax when searching as yourself.
- Matthew DeVries
Search by date/time range - e.g posts within the last 12 hours - posts in the last 10 days. e.g days:1 OR hours:24 OR minutes:123
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts liked by Friends who are on a certain List. e.g like:list_name
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts that have an inline image. e.g has:image
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts among friends only (excluding groups). e.g friends:me
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts in all groups I'm subscribed to. e.g groups:me
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts in a specific language. e.g lang:english
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
What about search within My Discussions.
- Chris Heath
Chris, you can simulate that with: comment:cheath OR like:cheath ...but it would be nice if that was given as an auto-complete option if you used the search box on the "My Discussions" page :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yes, I was thinking of an selection in the dropdown with the lists.
- Chris Heath
I've arranged Friends in lists, but if i see result only from that list i loose posts they comment, and like.. thati i see all on my fist page .. how can i arrange a search for have all from users on a list?
Not sure if I understand your question, but try this: http://friendfeed.com/search... It will search posts posted by your friends. But if you browse the list manually, you'll see their FOAF entries as well (those don't appear in search).
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I try to explain again, in comments there are more words :). If i watch the main page i see posts of my friends, but also posts they comments and they like. If i arrange few friends on a list and i watch updates from that list i see only posts of those peoples .. Then i mean a search for have Posts/Comments/Likes of a list of friends, then a "restricted" Mainpage.
- CantorJF
Gotcha. list:name only searches for posts by the members of the list, not their comments or likes ;) If you try comment:listname FF will accept the search, but the results will be incorrect.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
is what i noticed, and like:listname has no results :| ..
- CantorJF
(i arranged my Friends by foreign language, then i can have access to lists that speak in "Italian" "English" "Japanese" and so on .. like this i loose a "piece of cake " :D )
- CantorJF
This is much more powerful and useful than groups. For example, with this, I can get updates from anyone who uses #iPhone than only from the few who are subbed (like me) to iPhone room on FF. The barrier to entry of finding the appropriate room and subbing to it is completely removed.
- vijay
ah! you're right! any word Ahsan. Not just #tags.
- vijay
But you can get results from any group by searching everybody
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
But I need to "run" the search manually to get NEW results. With this, results are auto-updated since I'm subbed to them.
- vijay
I don't follow you .. you don't have to run it manually since the real-time !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
i.e search for 'iphone' without friends:me and you'll get results from everyone, all the groups in real time ...
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
To run the search you need to click the saved search right? With this you don't have to. It's like Groups. eg: *3 new results 30 seconds ago*
- vijay
Well, if you subscribe to a saved search, yes, I don't expect to have to click it to run it ;) Right.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
that's it. So whenever there's a new search result it bubbles up to the top of the list to notify you of new results. Wonder if this is a big deal to implement.
- vijay
Do we need a FF hashtag directory like Twitter has? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I think we do Kol. It's really good to expand our mind and see what's going through each person's life: kinda why I started this thread here on google searches -->- http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt...
- vijay
and I can see why. This is big.
- vijay
from iPhone
This is exciting and torturous. First Google Wave, and now OS. We have to wait a year to obtain access. Bah !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
lol! I know! First I thought I'll get myself an invite then realized it's no fun to play with this all by myself. Tech is no fun without people. And so begins our long wait... :S
- vijay
Try it with -service:twitter (Google Dropped A is trending on Twitter)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Or even better: with comments:2 to follow the discussions only
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
much more manageable. Most of the twitter stuff is just RT mania anyway.
- vijay