Friend Feed FAQ

The Help section should have all this: http://friendfeed.com/about... and if you get stuck post back in the Beginners group. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks Kol, I knew I could count on you to provide an answer. :-) - Sharon McPherson from email

You're welcome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

For example: if a post is made by a non-friend to a group which i'm not following through the Home feed, the post will not be shown on the Home feed, naturally. However, if a friend made that post or likes/comments on it - I'd expect to see that post in my Home feed if I'm following that friend through the Home feed. Yet, this isn't the case and the list rules override the friend rules, causing the post which a friend (a friend followed through the Home feed) liked to be hidden from the Home feed. This behaviour isn't making a lot of sense to me. - Ivan Zuzak

Sharon, have you tried clearing the cache in the browser and trying this again? - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Ok, so I can create a Saved Search. How can I make that my Home feed? - Paul Grav

Paul, Sharon has shared this query to the FF-Feedback group and I've left a comment here: http://ff.im/2xZok. Let me know on that post if it helps? - Kol Tregaskes

It's a little difficult as we all have different views as we all subscribe to different users, so if I posted an article to my feed and you posted the same article to your feed two different sets of people would see it. In groups, however, it's a matter of manually checking for the article before posting. I've suggested that the FF dup detector work for pre-sharing. So we get a warning that this article is already on the feeds we are about to post to. It would avoid a lot of duplicates. - Kol Tregaskes

As for posting to our own user feeds I don't see anything wrong with that. Groups could do with being tidier. - Kol Tregaskes

Yes, I usually try to check a group to see if something's already been posted. If I find that I did add something to a group that was already there, I delete my entry. - Sharon McPherson

"The problem with social networking these days is that there is just too much of it. You can tweet on Twitter, post photos on Flickr, gossip on Facebook, or rant on your blog. It’s no joke that you could spend all day moving back and forth between these options. That’s where FriendFeed comes in. FriendFeed is a social-networking aggregator – a one-stop shop for reading all the posts from your friends, family members, coworkers, former high school flames, etc. You can pull in content from more than 60 different services and websites. FriendFeed has just renovated the site, making it a much more attractive destination for those who want to do all their social-media “shopping” in one place." - Tweet Feeds from Bookmarklet

Adding a Friendfeed lifestream to your blog can be a way to tell people more about your interests and what you are up to. - Sharon McPherson from Bookmarklet

There's a FF room directory here: http://ffrd.appspot.com/ Not sure though how up-to-date it is. - Sharon McPherson

"Ah, but you can leave comments on feed entries some will point out and engage in a FriendFeed conversation. If most of the content on a FriendFeed is pulled from Twitter, wouldn’t discussing the points on Twitter be the logical outcome for the majority of people? Blog posts get comments on FriendFeed as well, but how rich an experience is a comment thread based on a headline with a link? As a publisher, wouldn’t you want people to hold these discussions on your blog? There’s already a precedent of sorts as well: coComment tried to take blog commenting to a centralized point without 100% of the conversation remaining on the blog itself, until it realized that it was a failed model. There is a market for aggregation services, and yet instead of creating a two way interactive service like Google’s still in development SocialStream will be (the real future of aggregation), FriendFeed seems to be nothing more than a fancy RSS service with commenting thrown in for good measure." - Tweet Feeds from Bookmarklet

A quick tutorial on adding maps, thumbnails and SUP to your blogs feed. - Rich

See http://friendfeed.com/e... - LouCypher

I'm thinking that "liking" something is similar to "starring" something in Google Reader... it is left up to you how you want to use it. You can star something to refer to later, to mark as something to finish reading later, to email to someone, etc. I'm not sure there's a defined purpose for "liking". - Adam Darowski

Noah, suppose your comment is that you disagree with someone's post? There are plenty of ways that commenting is not the same as liking lol. - Isha (Marysia)

OK, so I've found it floating by page. Now I hit "Un-Hide" and just get the circle thingy and it never un-hides! FF, make this easier! How about a "Hidden Items" in the right sidebar along with the comments and likes? - S. Charles Balazs

More info (not that anyone may care). I had a Greasemonkey script that hid visited items. I hit the FF limit for hiding items! >57K! - S. Charles Balazs

not really a question, but a revelation. probably late to the table on this, but thought I'd share - Rob Williams

never knew that myself. thanks. - Brian Bufalo

I don't like the way that scrolling locks to the top of each entry - longer entries are unreadable. - Rich

Twhirl is great for Twitter, not so much for FF. I keep it up so I get notifications when something new and interesting is up. That's about it. - Brian Bufalo

I am subbed to a lot because they cover a wide variety of topics. It is a hit or miss thing - I only catch the latest of when i check in which is generally a few times each day. - Ruth Ferguson

check out Summize (e.g. http://summize.com/search...), but agree, would be nice to get auto notification - Justin Guy Souter from twhirl

@justin - that works great for twitter, but not for friendfeed (so far as I can tell). For instance, your comment didn't show up in my summize.com feed - Rob Williams

I'd like to add mine also. But until it's supported you can send it in as an RSS feed (like a blog). Think of Utterz as an audio blog with RSS. But hopefully they'll support it soon. - Rob Williams

Yeah - the site favicon should appear. This would basically mean you could use any site seamlessly with friendfeed. - Rich

this has been one of the things I've found difficult also. I like the gReader modeil where I can mark things read/unread/readlater (star) - Rob Williams from twhirl