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Anika Malone
In reference Kamath's text box bug post (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...), here is what I get.
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The items this came from is 6 entries down from the first photo. And about 13 entries down in the second. It only goes away if I refresh the page or wait for that entry to scroll off. - Anika Malone
The way Kamath's looks happens to me sometimes, but this is what it looks like most of the time on my screen. I'm using XP Flock browser 2.0.3. - Anika Malone
Brett Kelly
Ok, so I built a little tool to batch-unsubscribe from FriendFeed users. It will be styled later, but it does the job. http://ffbatch.brettkelly.org - please test it out and let me know if it breaks :)
Hi Brett, could you contact me via ahmetalpbalkan-gmail.com , please? - Alp
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
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
what's my remote key? - BEX
Owen Greaves
Is there a way to Bulk Unsubscribe?
Nope at the moment. - Kol Tregaskes
btw thanks for following @Livecrunch - Live Crunch
Micah Wittman
Customer Service via FriendFeed Example 2 today: "@Nathan: Unfortunately, we capture every edit of your comment (can look at that as a + or -, but we'll likely address it in the future) - Christopher Golda" <---Founder of Backtype http://friendfeed.com/bret...
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
Excellent. Thanks for the reply. I really like using the Backtype service, btw :) - Micah Wittman
Ted Roden
Rethinking how I use friend lists in FF (I didn't really before). Is there any way to delete existing lists? (I probably have the term wrong).
Hi Ted, just go to the list you want to delete and click "delete" in the colored bar at the top. - Ana
Oh gosh, how did I miss that! I blame my theme ;) ... thanks a lot, Ana. - Ted Roden
Christopher Golda
When I'm not logged in and I click to "comment" (or some other action), you direct me to a Sign Up page https://friendfeed.com/account... — please allow users to Sign In as well.
Thanks for the heads up, Christopher. - Ross Miller
Andy Bold
Love the new real-time comment updates, but email notifications appear to only show the original version of the comment. eg, I commented on Bret's note about it at this link http://friendfeed.com/bret... and the email notifications I receive as people edit their comments show this behaviour.
Thanks for the feedback, Andy. It's a little harder to update an email once it has been sent and sending an email for every edit to a comment could get a little intense. You will, however see the updated comment if you click through to the entry on friendfeed. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Ross Miller
Anika Malone
I wish one hiding option would be to Hide all 'likes' by [username].
You mean so it doesn't put the entry up at the top? - Tyler (Chacha)
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
Thank you, Ross. - Anika Malone
Dimitris Panagiotakis
How about auto-updating fuzzy timestamps, without the need to refresh the page? (i.e. 1 second ago, etc). There's a jquery plugin doing this http://timeago.yarp.com/.
Dimitris, yes please. That's pretty annoying atm. #betakoltag-sg-postscomments - Kol Tregaskes
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 ☺
The timestamp text on a ff post say "5 seconds ago" or "12 minutes ago" etc. - it normally only updates on a page reload. The script makes it update in continuously - in realtime. - Micah Wittman
huixing
sometimes friendfeed bookmarklet pickup image without intention while i want pickup only text. so i need friendfeed bookmarklet integrated with 'readability' bookmarklet which make web page squeaky clean before snatch for FF posting.
huixing, you can always remove any images that the bookmarklet picks up by clicking on that image before clicking 'Post'. - Dan Hsiao
Mark Trapp
Feature Request: it'd be nice to have the person's profile text, if they've filled it out, in the emails we receive when someone subscribes to us.
Michael Lynton
maybe I'm just weird, but wouldn't it be nice to have the "Cc: Twitter" checkbox available for when posting comments to FF posts as well? I think I would want comments to Cc Twitter sometimes, but not always. So, I have it turned off in my settings. Thoughts?
there is when you comment on something posted on twitter, not when you comment on items coming from other services. But you can set all your comments and/or likes to go to twitter in your settings. - flapic
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
Has been asked for at least one time: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... I'd l0ve to have this feature. - Franc ☺
Sean McGee
I wish the iPhone FF interface opened shared links in a new window like the desktop interface. I know I can click-hold, but sometimes I forget and lose my place on the page.
Thanks for the suggestion, Sean! - Ross Miller
Brian Chang
Thank you, FriendFeed, for having a much better bookmarklet than Facebook.
I use shareaholic instead of a bunch of bookmarklets. - Sir Slippy of Slippington
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
Shareaholic also works with Gmail, Twitter, 60+ others :) + some bonus stats/buzz features http://www.shareaholic.com - Jay Meattle
Giancarlo Caparo
Is this the first FF spam? The link takes me to a blogspot site which seems to be supported by ads from Adultfriend Finder.
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Oh, no, definitely not the first. We've been squashing them as soon as we find them, though. - Akiva Moskovitz
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
Hi Giancarlo, In the future, if you see a spammer or someone who looks like a spammer, could you also include a link to their account. It helps us track them down and deal with the issue. Thanks for reporting this! Also, it's not necessary to post these messages anywhere but the feedback group or feedback@friendfeed.com. Thanks again for letting us know! - Ross Miller
Kol Tregaskes
When you edit your comments on FriendFeed, those edits are now reflected in real-time in everyone's feeds. No need to refresh the page to see the edited comments. (via http://friendfeed.com/bret...)
This works really well, just been watching Nathan testing this on Bret's thread. A little slow to react though but an excellent new feature. - Kol Tregaskes
Franc ☺
When I see a Re: in the Desktop notifier I'd like to see the full title of the post. (most of the times I don't remember the original post)
Lucio Riccardi
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. Will be useful to see all or to arrange a search method for retrieve all Posts/Comments/Likes from a list of friends.
comment:listname and like:listname don't work .. - Lucio Riccardi
(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
Thanks for the feedback. It does seem useful to have the option of Friend-of-a-Friend entries within a list. Thanks again for the suggestion, I've added it to our list. - Ross Miller
Chris Myles
How do I delete an imaginary friend?
I set up a couple and then realized they had locked feeds on twitter.. so now they are empty and I want to clean them up!! (I check first now)! - Chris Myles
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
@MVB - I actually laughed out loud at your comment. Very good! - Travis Koger
Amiroo
I would really love to narrow down my searches to posts that contain photos
Hi there, yes, this is something we want to add as well. Thanks for your patience! - Ana
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
yes please. - Franc ☺
Glenn Slaven
Could we be able to block a room, so that I won't see something that gets posted by someone I'm subscribed to if they post to their feed & that room. Reasoning behind this is the sometimes NSFW content that Mr. Huebel posts. I certainly don't want to unsub him, but I don't want a harassment suit because someone walked past my PC!
You can create a Professional feed of content that is safe for work. I follow specific feeds in a sidebar when I'm at work. - Peter Warnock
Thanks for the feedback. I've added your request to our suggestions list. - Ross Miller
Michael Metz
I've created a group that I want to keep private, but when I add a comment, it shows up on my public feed/stream. how can I keep comments within the private group/room?
Is the group private? Comments made on entries in a private group stay private. - Benjamin Golub
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
Also, as a general rule of thumb, if you see a small lock next to the timestamp it means that the entry is private and only visible to the people who are part of the same private group or feed. - Ross Miller
Outsanity
Is it possible to pull in the little music player if you post a link to an MP3 file so people can listen to it and then click the link to download it?
Yes please. - Kol Tregaskes
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
Ah, then it's down to that site supporting media RSS. - Kol Tregaskes
CW™
Can we get the themes to have all the same options as the main theme. I keep on having to go back to the main theme to be able to click Invite for rooms, or move people into other groups.
What theme are you using? I am able to do both of those tasks with the Helvetica theme... - Byron McCollum
And a cursory check of the other themes as well... - Byron McCollum
Helvetica does it all well, like Byron said - /Users/genieyclo
CW, would you be able to post a screenshot of this? All of the themes should allow the same functionality. - Ross Miller
Tyler Gillies PhD
would be nice to be able to hide "my disccusions" items. some of them are NSFW
Maybe create a "Group" for these, and post them to the group but not to your feed? You can even make it a private group, if you like, so only people you invite can see those items. - Ladybug Heather
the only problem is that they're _other people's_ posts that i comment or like, so i can't really put them into a group. - Tyler Gillies PhD from email
Thanks for the feedback, Tyler. I've added your request to our list. - Ross Miller
Stuart Forsyth
Any way to colour my comments so they stand out in a long discussion thread. Am I the only one who finds it painful to have to go and look for your comment so you know where to carry on reading from?
Thanks for the feedback, Stuart. - Ross Miller
Johns Hopkins
I'm aware that API provides ability for one to schedule posts to FF in the future through which sites like http://ffscheduler.com and http://www.postlater.com [paid] allow access to this functionality. When will FF have this available on its site directly, or even better, available through the bookmarklet? Is anyone aware of other 3rd parties?
Never knew of ffscheduler. - Kol Tregaskes
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
It would be excellent to have bit.ly type click tracking through the ff.im URL shortener as well (or does this already exist and I'm just not aware of it?) - Johns Hopkins
Swaroop
Love this. Create your own at - http://cyborg.namedecoder.com/webimag.... Change the text after "edox-";
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The friendfeed bookmarklet doesn't work on that URL. Can you check ? Its showing me the html code. - Swaroop
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
oh yeah, totally forgot, where will it inject the code :P. But can't something be done ? Like move the image into a temporary div or a span container or something and then inject in the rest of the HTML ? - Swaroop
Kamath (नमः)
The user's details shown on mouse over starts moving upwards. This gets in the way when I mouse over a user's name and try to sub and suddenly the details eiether disappear or move upwards. This vid will probably help understand the bug better. - Kamath (नमः) from Bookmarklet
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
Ana: I've had this happen across themes. I am Win 7 on Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 2.0.172.33. I have observed it for the last month or a little longer I believe. I remember this happening on my Mac (leopard) too though I am unsure now and will check again after I get home. - Kamath (नमः)
Jorge Escobar
Ok, trying this again. Search results' atom won't load into a Group, as clearly seen here.
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I think it is some sort of safety precaution so you can't import your own feed, creating an endless loop - Tyler (Chacha)
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
how bout "Hell you broke our Friendfeed! .. you @#$% " .... well Il also refer you here, but, got audio? .. :] ... its another error message - page ..... http://rathergood.com/friendf... .. !!!- http://rathergood.com/vines ... http://rathergood.com/gaybar ... http://rathergood.com/lightsa... . rem. i do not like, use or promote foul language .. it's just those katze - Petr Buben
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