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Alp - I'm at b@brettkelly.org if you'd like to chat - Brett Kelly from iPhone

Alp wants to be King of the FF ecosystem :) - Jérôme Flipo from iPhone

how's it work? I'm too scared to enter my username and my remote-key heh - Rudolf Olah

Really? Why? - Brett Kelly from email

Hey Brett, I think you should make the input field type for the Remote Key into password instead of plaintext. Just for a small layer of security. - /Users/genieyclo

ah, yeah, I actually meant to do that before posting it :) - Brett Kelly from IM

:) - /Users/genieyclo

I'm just used to sites that show some brief example of how they work, or that have a screenshot or whatever :P - Rudolf Olah

No, don't bother hiding the passphrase. How often are you using something like this from a public computer, or where someone can see your screen? - Michael R. Bernstein

Brett, it would be nice if the tool showed some metrics next to each name (comments, likes, some kind of mutual compatibility or engagement measure) and let you sort by that as well. - Michael R. Bernstein

This is great Brett! Is the source somewhere or is it closed source? - EricaJoy

I may open the source up at some point, but I have large plans for the FF API (not necessarily selling anything, but plans nonetheless). We'll see how it goes :) - Brett Kelly

No worries, what I want to do isn't possible yet anyhow. :) - EricaJoy from IM

What do you want to do? - Brett Kelly

Create a way to subscribe to all subscribers. Subscribers aren't exposed via the API (yet) so this seems either very hard or impossible now. - EricaJoy from IM

To subscribe to all her subscribers http://friendfeed.com/ericajo... - Jérôme Flipo

I said that already. :P - EricaJoy from IM

actually, you could probably scrape somebody's subscribers fairly easily (until the API supports it, anyway). - Brett Kelly from IM

Brett, could your page have a link to the remote key page? Perhaps open the window in a new tab. - Kol Tregaskes

Could the characters for the remote key also be masked? - Kol Tregaskes

Is it possible to select all/none plus select by friends lists? - Kol Tregaskes

Need select all button :) - Live Crunch

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks! I get an e-mail whenever someone mentions us in a FriendFeed comment via http://www.backtype.com/alerts — makes it a lot easier :) - Christopher Golda

In many ways we find customer service on FF easier than on twitter. Simply because a real conversation is possible. - Mike Montano

I have a list called "squelch" where I banish people if they clutter my like stream too much. - Daniel J. Pritchett

No, I just mean some people will go through and like *everything* by someone else and then I have to go hide the useless-to-me stuff. Actually, now that I think about in addition to the above, I would also like an option to hide stuff from FOAF by username. I don't want to block someone who's not directly annoying me, but I don't want to hide ALL FOAF stuff either. - Anika Malone

Isn't that what Hide All Entries from User {xxx} does? Or am I not understanding what it is that you'd like? - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

No, I'm not explaining it well. I want to hide a particular FOAF from a particular person. My options are blanket hiding right now. Meaning that if that FOAF pops up from someone else, I may not mind it so much. I'm just being picky. - Anika Malone

Ah, okay. I understand now. I'm guilty of the liking sprees in the morning, when I hit people's feeds and discover they had the nerve to post things as I slept. Can you believe it? Anyway. I do sometimes wonder if that bugs people but there's not much to be done about it now so I don't spend too much thought on it. :-/ - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

I don't care about the liking in sprees. That's understandable to me. - Anika Malone

Hi, The option to hide the likes from a particular user doesn't exist at the moment, but you can definitely hide all FoaF entries from a particular person. If you find a FoaF entry from the person who's friends you don't want to see, just select hide -> hide other items like this -> hide all FoaF entries from <user>. It should be the third option from the top. Hope this helps! Also, I've added hiding likes to our suggestions list. - Ross Miller

Thanks, Ross. I'm aware of those options, but as I said before they're all a little too drastic for me. I should make a chart or something to explain better. - Anika Malone

hope it's not moi. :| - edythe

in other words, IS IT? ;) - edythe

LOL no. You like everything. I'm thinking more along the lines of someone who'll go through and like *only* one subject matter. - Anika Malone

So, you would like to see the entries a specific friend comments on, but not the ones they like? Hiding FoaF from a specific friend hides all entries that are trigged by comments and likes from that user, but still shows you the content that they post themselves. Sorry if my questions are repetitive, I'm just curious and would like to make sure that I fully understand your request :) - Ross Miller

Yes! Because I've noticed that when people go though and say like all of FOAF LOLcats they just like them, but rarely comment on them. - Anika Malone

I'd like the reverse option too - to automatically like all of someone's posts:) - Aaman Lamba

Hiding likes but not comments by a particular user would be helpful. Hiding all FOAF entries is a bit drastic. - John

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! - Ross Miller

bump - Dimitris Panagiotakis

And it would be nice to SOMEWHERE have access to an unfuzzy timestamp (if it's around, I haven't found it yet!) - Scott of Two Countries

Dimitris, Jammy's greasemonkey script may be of interest: http://friendfeed.com/jammyle... - Micah Wittman

Micah: Ummm. in english plz. http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Franc ☺

yea, i knew about the checkbox for commenting on twitter posts. it would be nice then if that carried over to all services. i like flexibility. - Michael Lynton

Michael, agree, don't see why not. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yep, I was thinking the same thing just yesterday. - Grey Drane

If you want all of your comments forwarded to twitter you can go here: http://www.vimeo.com/5513102 and select the option that will post your comments on public friendfeed entries under the Include section. I've added cc: twitter for all comments to our suggestions list. Thanks! - Ross Miller

How does Shareaholic fare in detecting/sharing images when sharing the link to a webpage? That's the part of Facebook's share function that grinds my gears the most - it almost never detects any of the images on a page, or if it does, it gives you a list of 10 images, 9 of which are ads and #10 is the actual image that is relevant to the topic. - Brian Chang

Shareaholic appears to execute the friendfeed bookmarklet code, so it works just the same as the bookmarklet. - Sir Slippy of Slippington

Dunno about on facebook - i haven't tried it there. I shall though....hang on - Sir Slippy of Slippington

Same story - it just executes the facebook bookmarklet code. - Sir Slippy of Slippington

Ah. So any problems that I'm currently having with the Facebook bookmarklet would not be resolved by jumping on with Shareaholic. - Brian Chang

No, but it would reduce the space occupied by bookmarklets in your browser, lol - Sir Slippy of Slippington

Facebook and FriendFeed are the only ones I use, so reducing 2 to 1 is not high on my bookmark bar priority list :) - Brian Chang

It's the first one I have seen. How do we report it if we see anymore? Feed it into FF Feedback? - Giancarlo Caparo

first? not by a long shot. we have a room full of 'em --->- http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - vijay

lol there is an entinre whole discussion about her. Nice to know that there is a room to report spam. Thanks. - Giancarlo Caparo

Will Robert and Jesse appreciate being DMed about a spammer? - Kol Tregaskes

And not this is not the first, there have been many spammers on FF unfortunately. - Kol Tregaskes

The DM to Robert and Jesse was accidental. I'm just starting to get a hang of FF. - Giancarlo Caparo

(I arranged my Friends by foreign language, then I can have access to lists that speak in "Italian" "English" "Japanese" and so on .. but now in this way I loose a "piece of cake " :D ) - Lucio Riccardi

Lucio have you tried adding "friends:me" to your search criteria? - Kol Tregaskes

He wants to search for posts that have been liked/commented on by friends in a specific list. I'd like this too. - Ahsan Ali

For what it's worth you can subscribe to a person's likes and comments only. Perhaps subscribe to this person's likes and comments and put that subscription only into the list in question and not on your home feed. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

that'd make reading the home page much easier.(I know there's a pause button but still) - Franc ☺

@Tina: you can subscribe to Likes and Comments.. so i had to make 3 lists and search (ItaliansSubsctiption AND ItaliansLikes AND ItaliansComments).. but resubscribe all friends is not the solution... - Lucio Riccardi

Click on Firends > scroll to bottom -> click on Imaginary Friends > click on imaginary friend > click Unsubscribe - Peter Warnock

Thanks Peter, do you know if that also deletes the account? I'm just trying to clean up the mess I made!! - Chris Myles

It took me years of therapy. - MVB

Ana, that's good news. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Looking forward to it, thanks - Amiroo

Ana: Do we have a product road map so we can refer to for future releases somewhere ? - Amiroo

Not publicly :) - Ana

I misspoke, it wasn't a comment, I "shared" a posting in the private group which then appeared on my "home feed." Am I the only one who can see my home feed--isn't that visible to the public? - Michael Metz

Sharing makes an entirely new entry. It's similar to copy pasting the entry into the box and sharing that way. So if you are sharing to a public place (like your feed) then it would be visible to the public. A good example is share is like forwarding an email. - Benjamin Golub

Your Home feed is a personalized view that only you see that contains the entries from the people and groups that you are subscribed to, including any private users or groups. Anything you post to your feed ("My feed") is visible to anyone who goes to your profile page at http://friendfeed.com/mimetz (when you've set your profile to be public) - Dan Hsiao

anytime i see the little player on FF for an mp3 and i click on it, the thing just vanishes. i can only download the file. - Dead Silence

Actually I think this already works. I just saw an uploaded MP3 with the embedded player. - Kol Tregaskes

Dead Silence - I've noticed this too, but it depends on which browser I'm using. Works fine with Chrome - try these out - http://friendfeed.com/radiocu... - Chris Loft

Kol, I mean like if I post http://site.com/song.mp3 the embedded player would be able to play it - Outsanity

And a cursory check of the other themes as well... - Byron McCollum

Helvetica does it all well, like Byron said - /Users/genieyclo

Neither did I, Kol. - Micah Wittman

Shame it's a manual job. If it used the bookmarklet and 'collected' the shares for posting later, it would make the service more useful. - Kol Tregaskes

Is there any feedback here? If not, you've posted this to the wrong group. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, I think the feedback is in the first comment about the bookmarklet not working on that URL. - Scott of Two Countries

Right, then the bookmarket will not work on images, you will have to manually share the image on the FF site. - Kol Tregaskes

Something similar happens to me, but instead of it being over the test, it's off to the left side of the screen. The only way to get rid of it is to refresh. - Anika Malone

This is very weird. I can't reproduce it. Did this just start for you guys? Is it specific to any theme? Are you running any kind of scripts? - Ana

Ana, it's been happening to me since the end of April. What Kamath showed happend, *just* happened to me with your tagbox. I think I have a couple of screencaps on my netbook. If I get my power supply today, I'll post them. - Anika Malone

Although you could probably do it by burning it to feedburner - Tyler (Chacha)

Strange that no one from FriendFeed has replied to this. If it's for the endless loop, that's fine, but the error message should then be changed. - Jorge Escobar

Jorge, you cannot import a FF feed into another FF feed. That was turned off a while back. But it's been suggested to import a GReader feed of the FF feed? - Kol Tregaskes

Hi Jorge, yes, it's true. Currently, you can't add any FriendFeed feed back into FriendFeed, but we are working on allowing you to do this for search results in the future. Thanks for your patience. - Ana

Thanks Kol & Ana! - Jorge Escobar

the message should be changed. ... for example, to "Don't even bother to think about doing this" ... yes for now you can go fdbu ..also tw .. :] - Petr Buben

@Petr true. Or "What do you think you're doing?" - Jorge Escobar

aha ..true! ... they should hire us ... and i see you really held back on that wordink - Petr Buben