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I have lost nearly all faith in Friendfeed.The original beta was perfect. Today I came back and everything was screwed up. Menu tiny and on the wrong side for reading. Post box hidden as in FF 1.0. Double tall top bar. Seriously, you guys are off your game.
Ray Metzen, Ňicķ, ·[▪_▪]· and 3 other people liked this
@Vezquex then go back to original mode. Perhaps they can look at user preferences for navigation on the roadmap for future release. Cut the devs some slack. They are doing an amazing job helping us drink out of a fire hose...
- tagami
I love the way people complain that this is not working, that is screwed. It's a beta and we're 'testing' it. They are called bugs and FF will fix them. :-) If you don't want to use something that isn't complete then don't use anything that is beta. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Please remember it is also completely reasonable that people comment on the beta. It's part of the reason for providing beta.
- ·[▪_▪]·
Yeah, but to lose faith in the FF devs because they made a change you don't like? Seems pretty silly.
- Jordan Hofker
On the surface it does seem a little silly. Though after i read some of the reasons for the decisions, i was discouraged too. A relatively drastic UI change to accommodate new users? How long are they going to be new? I understand the need to help new users quickly. Is there a better way? Claims of wide-screen usability issues? I have wide screens and loved the prior beta versus the new. It seems like their priorities are out of sync with mine so i'm not confident FF with be changing in ways i'll enjoy.
- ·[▪_▪]·
And the April 2009 beta fixes all of these problems!
- Vezquex: God of FF
Is this room Open For Business come Monday or will we see a fresh new beta room?
vijay liked this
We were just debating that today. We will likely start a new room so the conversations remain separate (and old messages don't look confusing). We will rename this one to reflect that it is "old."
- Bret Taylor
It will be deprecated. :)
- Louis Gray
The FF system never import my feed's items which since I have removed. I wanna to know how this coursed and what's the mechanisms?
Why do tongyang & Doc keep showing up when I'm adding friends to groups? I keep deleting the 2 of them, and they keep popping up.
Anyone else seeing this? Everytime I add one person to a group, I have to delete these two.
- Mitchell Tsai
Bump [Thursday 8/28/08] Still seeing these two everytime I add someone to a group. Please help...
- Mitchell Tsai
Yup just found them in my one of my groups too. I swear I didn't add them myself. Something fishy going on here. The first thing I'm going to do is change my FF remote key.
- Andrew Perry
The realtime feed adds new entries and instantaneously shifts the older entries down. This is jarring, makes it difficult to read as new data flows by. Could this be animated to be smoother? I believe jQuery, for example, has ways to do a smooth transition animation.
What browser are you using, Denton? It should be a smooth transition, but we may have a bug in your browser version.
- Bret Taylor
Safari 3.1.2 on MacOS X 10.5.5, on a PowerPC mac (4 years old and very slow, if you disable the animation on machines incapable of handling it).
- DGentry
When I go into realtime mode the "New entries and comments appear in real time as they are posted" notification smoothly transitions the rest of the entries down. However the actual updates (feed items, likes/comments, etc) just abruptly jump the older items downward.
- DGentry
I only have the option to Hide All RSS (and now Custom RSS) feeds from a particular user. I generally only want to hide one specific feed. For example, one friend imports an RSS feed of subversion commits, which I want to hide, and his blog which I want to see.
Tanath liked this
Yeah, you can do that. When you click Hide, you are just hiding that specific RSS feed.
- Johnny Worthington
I don't think it used to work like that, but now it clearly does. Cool beans!
- DGentry
When I edit a comment to a tweet, could there be a little note under it of whether the comment was also sent as a tweet? I realize it is impossible to go edit the already-sent tweet, I just forget whether I clicked the box to tweet it or not.
Voyagerfan5761 liked this
FriendFeed search is unavailable... when I need it the most.
I would like a way to mark certain posts so they do not appear in my Public Feed. I don't mind having a public feed but just want not display certain posts to non-subscribers... OK, I don't wanna get my ass kicked for doing Memes at work :)
how would this work, exactly? like you could designate which of your subscribers would see public vs. private stuff? Or just that people who weren't on friendfeed at all couldn't see your private stuff?
- Laura Norvig
I set up a room to put things in that I don't want everyone to see. It asks every time you share something where you'd like to share it. If you're talking about individual automatic feeds, I guess there's no control. I can't see a way to make control over those, either. Just either put them in a feed or don't.
- Kamilah Gill
Maybe there should be a memes room ....
- Laura Norvig
Would be cool if this room merged with the FriendFeed Feedback room, since the beta has now closed. :) - http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
Flavio, Alessandro, Voyagerfan5761 and 2 other people liked this
I agree!
- Rochelle
agree
- Laura Norvig
eh, and how do you know there won't be another one? :)
- Vincent van Wylick
yes, because i'm not subscribed to the feedback room and can never find it.
- Anika
I suppose they could open a new room for a new beta - one uncluttered with postings from the previous beta. Am un-joining this room. :)
- flammable
I can't import my flickr account some reason. Because I add correct nickname and email everytime and it doesn't work! Is there problems in FF or is that just me? Is this problem cause that I have noting in my account..?
“Whoa. Content just got a lot wider on FF. Please add option to Account settings for this, and let us decide?” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Looks the same to me. Maybe you have a low screen resolution? Your browser should resize it automatically if the window is smaller.
- Tanath
I've made a room private, but when you look at my comments feed, my commented posts from that room show up to the public.
Did anyone already address the issue of logging onto two separate FriendFeed accounts at the same time? Useful for those of us with split personalities...
Steve Chou liked this
You can do that with Firefox. Download the IE Tab extension. Open one tab as Firefox and login to one account. Open another tab as an IE tab and login to the other account. I do this with another website and it works great.
- Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle. I do that as well with Safari. But when I switch to the other tab with the second account and try to add/edit/paste/link something on the tab with the original account, it takes me to the login screen... I'd like to be able to reshare links for example and do not want to make the two accounts friends of each other... so I have to do it manually
- Metin
Rochelle... Duh!!! I just got your point!! Log in under 2 separate operating systems... lol
- Metin
Yeah, you got it.
- Rochelle
I don't think I'll run out and grab Boot Camp so I can do this... ;)
- Anthony Citrano
I think this will work if you want to stay with Firefox not IE. Run Firefox with "firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote", create a new profile and start, log in. With this, you must have two Firefox windows.
- Yu-Jie Lin
oh wow, that's a great suggestion rochelle! i never thought of that.
- Anika
Another conversational request: threading/nesting in comments.
Brandon, Neil Saunders and Rodrigo liked this
Conversational request: don't make items die off so quickly. I hate that I can get involved in some really great conversations but then they are just summarily banished to the back room by your secret time-out filters. :)
I know we don't want old threads constantly dominating top positions, but there must be a good way to address this.
- Anthony Citrano
I'd like to request that when I have hidden entries at the bottom of my page and I open it up to see what is hidden, there's a line that says *why* something was hidden. For example, "This is hidden because you're hiding all last.fm posts from User X" etc.
Akiva Moskovitz liked this
I'll often go look at hidden stuff and see something that is hidden down there and be confused as heck why something is hidden. This would help!
- Rochelle
Other than making your feed private, is there a way for (non-friends) to not be able to view the public feeds of your friends. Shoudn't they be my friend first?
I'd like to be able to hide posts from a user's specific blog, but see another. For example, if Bob has two blogs, I'd like to be able to hide all posts from Bob's First Blog but not hide entries from Bob's Second Blog.
Ray Metzen, Dobromir Hadzhiev and Jordan Hofker liked this
Right now, it's just a choice to hide all of Bob's blogs or none.
- Rochelle
An often requested feature. I want this too.
- Peter
Ditto! same here... I created an imaginary friend for 1 person with too many blogs. this way i can track that 1 blog not all of 'em
- Susan Beebe
Wait, are you talking about Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog?
- Laura Norvig
Susan, good idea! I'll use that tip for now.
- Rochelle
Would it be possible to (1) time stamp and/or (2) number the comments? I would personally find that useful for tracking and discussing things. Just my two cents...
Kol Tregaskes liked this
Hover your mouse over the comment bubble icon to view the timestamp
- Benjamin Golub
I am aware of that, but I was wondering if it was possible to have that information displayed "automatically" instead of hovering over it.
- Wobbler
And since I am throwing out some cents anyway: Would it also be possible to increase the character limit per comment BUT after the standard amount of characters, provide a "...more" feature so FF-ers have the option expand the comment if they think it is interesting enough? Might encourage some better/deeper discussions, which increases the attractiveness of FF? :)
- Wobbler
Am I the only person whose disqus posts are not being pulled in?
http://friendfeed.com/mndoci... seems to have all of the entries here: http://www.disqus.com/people.... Is anything missing?
- Benjamin Golub
“Wow, there's new features on FF beta! "Related posts"... cool!” - http://beta.friendfeed.com/e...
Kol Tregaskes liked this
How To Find FriendFeed Rooms With Google - http://andybeard.eu/2008...
FF needs it's own room search really
- Kol Tregaskes
If the new item-posting dialogue is going to prepopulate the "http://" then for god's sake erase it when I focus the field. Nobody types into this field, everybody pastes, and the clipboard already includes the URL protocol.
Kol Tregaskes, Peter, Joseph Z. and 3 other people liked this
You are right
- Kristian Salonen
Yep
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd really like to see two things in FriendFeed:
Kol Tregaskes liked this
1. Small user icon next to every post. The visual cue would really help.
- LogEx
2. Higher vertical density of content (less white space, vertically), to reduce scrolling.
- LogEx
Disagree on both.
- Peter
hahahaha Peter, apt and succinct. But yes I disagree on both. I'd like to check out AJ Barac's cleaner friend feed but I only use Chrome now.
- Toby Graham
1UP Peter
- Akiva Moskovitz
Clearly, all opinions are valid, they are opinions after all... but can you state your reasons why you don't like these?
- LogEx
Yup sorry bout that, there is already an icon next to each post. And RE the scrolling, you would prefer a cluttered and busy friend feed?
- Toby Graham
I can grok an avatar faster than I can grok a textual name - two little icons would tell me Who and What instantly. Plus, yes, I'd give up some white space for higher information density. For me, it's all about efficiency of scanning the feed.
- LogEx
I'm quite happy the way it is. To have an option to use the full width of your window would be nice but it's not a biggie.
- Kol Tregaskes
I love FF but... can I state the obvious and shout out that: 1. proper usage of <table> => YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG 2. FF w3c validation => EPIC FAIL
Peter liked this
recommended reading: http://microformats.org/wiki...
- Andre
In the recommended friends tab there should be a 'remove' button next to the 'subscribe' one. - https://friendfeed.com/setting...
Room creation doesn't seem to work in IE8b2.
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