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correct - Vezquex: God of FF

Will this stay the case? FF is still my fav feed client. - tomit from email

Twitterfeed went real-time supposedly though I think it is more like 5 mins or so. That's an alternative if you have an RSS/blog feed. - beersage

This sucks! Some posts are taking an hour to show up on here. - tomit

Yeah, Friendfeed posts aren't showing up in Twitter quickly either. It's got to be a temporary thing? - Nick in Manila

Is there another real-time firehose that Twitter outputs to? Maybe there is a workaround. - beersage

Yeah, FF no longer receives the firehose. Paul seemed to indicate that it would be temporary. - Roberto Bonini

:( I imagine they're all too busy with new Facebook projects... - Rochelle

Rochelle, yeah it appears so. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

It would be nice to see some interesting things happening on Facebook, if that was the case, Rochelle. Facebook is just as useless as ever. - Andy Bakun

Andy, I think they are working on how our FF feeds look like on FB but no news on anything else. Definitely no news on new FF stuff or, it appears, simple fixes. I rely on the desktop notifier so much but it's not been working for a week or so. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Heck, at this point I'd settle for some solid *maintenance*. We're starting to see a slow erosion of features due to unfixed breakage and bitrot. - Michael R. Bernstein

Michael, yep, agree. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, check your settings here on friendfeed for that notifier. Mine somehow got screwed up and was popping up everything from my home feed and driving me nuts. Maybe your settings went in the opposite direction. Check them, fix if necessary and log out of the notifier and back in again. http://friendfeed.com/setting... - April Russo (app103)

April, the actual notifications I'm receiving are correct, it's not that. My notifications are scrolling up the screen. It's unusable atm. I've already reset it btw. - Kol Tregaskes

they are just slow - all of mine have been showing up eventually - sometimes it's just a few hours, sometimes it's the next day. - holly

Yeah, just slowness. If you go and refresh the feed, they seem to show up right away. Don't remove and re-add it, hit the refresh link. - Andy Bakun

Sorry Mike, My original post got hosed up for some reason and only partially showed up. Since FB now owns FF, I'm not even sure if this "request" even retains much significance. - Greg Fowler

hehe, well it makes much more sense now :) and even if FF devs aren't checking this group, other FF users might have suggestions. what about turning off twitter posting for tumblr? - Mike Chelen

I agree with SDAllen - FF isn't going anywhere. And Posterous isn't the same, though it could be used as a launching point for your content, though it won't capture the conversations that your content generates. That, the conversation, is one of the powers of FF. - Jason Miller

Jason, I totally agree with everything you say. It seems that as of late the service has suffered a bit of benign neglect from its team, and my concern is that it won't grow and evolve (even to the simple things like adding new services) as it did before the acquisition. That said, I've been here since nearly the beginning and have seen the power and potential of the platform. I just hope it starts getting the development attention it deserves. - Mark Edwards

This is really annoying. No one is getting any likes today. I didn't realise how much I rely on the desktop notifier. - Kol Tregaskes

This is still happening! :-( - Kol Tregaskes

They've had an https for many moons, I've been using it as long as I can remember. EDIT: OK, since February: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... So either remove the "s" or change your IE settings to allow unencrypted content on encrypted pages (not recommended) - LogEx

Yeah, I have been on HTTPS since march or so. - Alex Scrivener

Reddit is another model of qna site when you use the self.reddit section to ask questions and get answers from the community. - TrafficBug

nice essay Chris, worth reading a couple times to appreciate how many good points you tied together in just a few paragraphs. FriendFeed nails Teh Awesome from so many different angles - should be considered a living museum piece exemplifying how to program a graceful SN. - Dan Freeman

Dan thanks, "a few paragraphs".. too funny, here I was thinking how ridiculously out of date I am when I can't summarize my thoughts in a couple of sentences, let alone 140 characters. I completely agree about the museum piece and don't understand why the big players "don't get it". I haven't watched those tools "grow up" so I don't understand the history, but as a "castaway" there seem to be some pretty HUGE gaps that make me say WTF? Isn't all this supposed to make our lives easier and LESS complicated? - Chris Myles

Well probably really not so easy to design and program as the simple grace of FriendFeed might lead one to think. I am starting to appreciate it as a work of art - a rare masterpiece of social software engineering. And your post explained a few reasons why. - Dan Freeman

Louis Gray just posted his reasons for sticking around (http://ff.im/bS8xj). Notice that neither of us is sticking around JUST for the community, we've found a tool that works and there isn't a suitable replacement (yet). - Chris Myles

+Dan for referring to Friendfeed as a work of art. It is. I hate to see participation flagging. My own circle has died down a little bit lately. I'm searching for active new users. I see a couple of new people almost every day. - Kamilah Gill

Does making your FF private unsubscribe everyone from you? I didn't know that... Or I guess it might anyone you weren't also subscribed to. That kind of would make sense. You'd be worth making a separate subscription request for, though. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

You can then Force others to unsub from you and they can't sub back in unless you approve it. - CW™

Any new person that wants to sub to you will then have to get approval from you first. - CW™

I think it unsubscribes anyone that you are not subscribed to but I don't keep up with everyone who subscribes to me. I want to keep all of my subscribers in and then new people can send requests, but I don't want people to suddenly be unsubbed from me. I want them like, grandfathered in. - joey

Otherwise setup a group/room. Make it private. Invite those that you want to share things with in that room. Then you can keep your main feed public and your private feed you share with key few private. - CW™

They stay subbed to you. Anyone that is not subscribed to you when this is done won't see your feed anymore. - CW™

Taking your feed private doesn't bump anyone that is currently subbed to you. - pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥

Oh, good. - joey

It doesn't unsubscribe people but they just won't see any of your stuff unless they send you a request. - Rochelle

So they won't know that they're no longer seeing my stuff? - joey

When I took my feed private, everyone that was already subbed to me continued to be subbed to me without having to request anything from me. So, no. Only new people who want to sub to you will have to send a sub request. - pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥

Right. AFAIK, your content just won't show up in their feed anymore. And if they navigate to friendfeed.com/joeybean, they'll see a blank page with the "Joey has a private feed, send her a request" button. - Rochelle

CW, that is a good idea for certain topics (I should do it) but I have a specific situation going on and I just want to keep non-FF members from being able to easily find everything I've posted in my feed in the past and future, even if it is my usual totally innocuous boring content. - joey

Once you take your feed private, only people who are currently subbed to you or whom you grant access will see your feed. Your posts will no longer show up as FoF content to folks who aren't subbed to you. - pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥

You can manage your subscriptions and remove subscribers. For someone to see your feed again, you would have to approve to let them in. - Rodfather

Rodfather, so I can take it private then do a mass approval? - joey

I like how I'm assuming that anyone cares anyway, when I've been losing subscribers left and right. Haha. - joey

I went private with the second account and for the most part, I'm happy with that. But sometimes I go public (like on Friday, when I posted a couple of birthday threads because I wanted people to be able to comment on that, even if they weren't subbed to me) and then go private again and it doesn't cause any disruption as far as I've been able to figure out. - pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥

i know the feeling joey, kinda having same moment going on :) your subscribers can still read your feed, so no worries about that. - Nia

Joey, Once you go private, Everyone currently subbed does not need approval. You can however go to http://friendfeed.com/joeybea... and then manage your subscribers. There you can remove people that are subscribed to you. Anyone that wants to subscribe to you again will have to request approval. If you deny them, it will just say your feed is private. - CW™

joey, my dear girl, quality over quantity, just remember that. :D - pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥

You would have to approve individually for new subscribers. A notification pops up at the top indicating someone is requesting a subscription. - Rodfather

Okay, awesome. I don't want to deny anyone currently subbed and I'm okay with approving going forward. - joey

WHY JOEY BLOCK ME? - Derrick

Derrick, you can't escape from me. I have an annual pass too, you know! - joey

I AIN'T SCARED OF NO BLACKOUT DATES. - Derrick