I think it would be really useful to have a mechanism that allows us to sort our subscriptions by their last usage date, or by level of engagement via commenting or liking - that way we could see who are the "ghosts" of FriendFeed, and unsubscribe to those folks accordingly - especially now that real-time is the paradigm for the future
Woah, hi, it's me. I'm never in these things.
- Akiva
@Akiva, you just happen to be right at the top of my alphabetically sorted list of people I'm subscribed to. :)
- Nathan Chase
Thanks for reassuring me that it'll never happen again. Heh heh heh.
- Akiva
@Akiva just rename yourself to _Akiva - you'll be first on everyone's list. :)
- Nathan Chase
I may not be the first in everyone's list but I'm the first in everyone's heart.
- Akiva
The way I used to see who was a "ghost" (and also the way I would decide whether to subscribe to someone), was to check and see if they made "native" posts to FriendFeed or only fed in other services. I don't see any way to do that in this beta interface and that concerns me. And Akiva, you absolutely are first in everyone's heart (or funnybone at least).
- Laura Norvig
I don't follow your point. Why would you want to unsubscribe from these people? They certainly aren't contributing to noise. What's their harm to your stream?
- Nick in Manila
@Nick, they are contributing to noise if they have several services set up that flow into my home feed. I don't have any way of knowing if they're still "here" and participating unless I know either 1) when they last "liked" something, or 2) when they last posted a comment - basically signs that they're actually on friendfeed.com and interacting with other people. I also happen to be more OCD about pruning people that don't add value for me - I have the same issues on Twitter.
- Nathan Chase