You now get FriendFeed direct messages (and... - FriendFeed News

This is the first of a handful of direct message and email enhancements we have lined up - feedback is appreciated! - Bret Taylor

woott - Tyler (Chacha)

Great job, Tudor! (Tudor did all the hard work on this one: http://beta.friendfeed.com/tudor) - Bret Taylor

nice work! - Cee Bee

I love u guys :D - Johnny

So.. how? - Rochelle

Rochelle: if someone sends you a direct message (http://beta.friendfeed.com/filter...) or replies to a direct message you send, you will get an email, and you can reply by email as well. - Bret Taylor

Nice! - AJ Kohn

Bret, so there's no option to turn it off? - Rochelle

Rochelle: there is an unsubscribe link on every email, or you can go here: http://friendfeed.com/account... - Bret Taylor

NICE!!!! - FFing Enigma

That's awesome! - Parth Awasthi

Awesome! now we can also do it by SMS right? (not IM) - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

Bret, how do you get to that URL if it's not typed in directly? Where is the account setting? - Rochelle

I was wondering what happens when I send a DM to someone who doesn't use beta. I guess after today they will get an email? - Laura Norvig

Rochelle: at the bottom of every email that you get, there is a link - "Unsubscribe from FriendFeed mail" - that takes you to the link that Bret posted. - Tudor Bosman

I'm stunned. Cool. - Micah

Tudor, there should be a link in the settings to change that. You shouldn't have to get an email to get a link to it. - Rochelle

seems to work well. jut tested it out with someone - Cee Bee

Rochelle, there will be, once we convert the settings page to the new UI, possibly before that. - Tudor Bosman

Rochelle: the email settings are also at https://friendfeed.com/account..., but the Beta is catching up with the account settings UI still. It will be in there imminently, just rolling things out progressively. - Bret Taylor

Okay, excellent. Thanks for the update! - Rochelle

Sweet! - Michael Fidler

Awesome! - Robert Scoble

Nicely done, Tudor. - Anne Bouey

If an entry is sent directly to you and as well as other feeds will it come via email? This can be a little ambiguous in my opinion with the potential for people to respond to direct messages that aren't private. I think its a great step though! - Frankie Warren

Why can't Twitter do this? Oh, yeah, their engineers suck. - Robert Scoble

Cool... Now my mailbox will seem more full ;) - Bindu Reddy

How did the DM feature work before this? There were no emails sent when someone DMed you? - Bindu Reddy

nice - mike "glemak" dunn

Bindu: this is correct. DMs would only show up in your feed (and in the "Direct messages" filter). - Tudor Bosman

On the DM feed, does a >> icon indicate privacy or just the fact that it is a DM ? - Ahsan Ali

>> indicates that it is a DM. All DMs are private (unless cross-posted to a public feed, or to public rooms). - Tudor Bosman

I posted a DM to a room ... that's the same as doing a post really, isn't it? I think it disappeared from my DM list. - Laura Norvig

Yes, a "DM" to a room is the same as a post. Rather, the other way around: if you "post" to another user, we call that a DM. - Tudor Bosman

What!! than it was not really a DM till now...;) Good work. Did our chat at B&B inspire any of this or was this in the works already? - Bindu Reddy

Bindu: we've had this (and "a handful of direct message and email enhancements") working internally in some form or another for about 2 weeks. - Tudor Bosman

@Tudor I see, so the >> indicates DMness, but not necessarily privacy. Do you think we need a privacy icon - like the one we have for private Feeds (rooms) ? - Ahsan Ali

Got it. Congrats! Good stuff. Though I am not totally sure about sending emails on the comments. It makes total sense for the 1st DM message - Bindu Reddy

Ahsan: Let's say that you receive a message from me. You can look at the list of recipients. If it says "Tudor Bosman to you", it's private. If it says "to you, Tudor's feed, and FriendFeed Feedback", it's not (it's crossposted to my (public) feed and to the (public) FriendFeed Feedback room). - Tudor Bosman

@Tudor Right, thanks. - Ahsan Ali

Tudor: i guess it's similar to checking if people were cc'd on an email... but at the same time i think the potential to mess up is higher. especially since the feed paradigm takes some getting used to in the first place. - Frankie Warren

Mark: not right now. (The message isn't formatted in a way suitable for 140 characters...) - Tudor Bosman

Frankie: agreed. We may change the way locks and ">>" are displayed to reduce some of the confusion. - Tudor Bosman

Mark: SMS is not email. Twitter's DM sucks compared to friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

Excellent - I depend on email notifications for DMs from Twitter. Great to see it here. - Hutch Carpenter

Great! Thanks Brent! - AJ Batac :)

Why Facebook can't get this right is beyond me. Thank you for resisting the urges of noreply and donotreply email addresses :) - Jay Cuthrell

Thanks for all the love! If you notice any bugs (especially related to replying by email -- missing, incomplete, or incorrectly formatted comments) please let us know by forwarding a few affected messages (including full headers, if possible) to feedback@friendfeed.com. Thanks! - Tudor Bosman

Really good feature for email api, now it's true usable. Thank you. - Альянс-кульман from fftogo

OK... so the structure of the email address is 'ignore.<username>@friendfeed.com'. Does this mean in the future I will be able to DM someone by emailing something like 'message.<username>@friendfeed.com'? - Johnny

Johnny: I wouldn't know :) - Tudor Bosman

Neat.. way to go, Tudor! - Balaji Raghavan

Thank you! Any plans to add it to the FF Notification tool? - Josh Haley

Bret, thanks! And Mark, as a workaround re: wanting to get DMs via SMS, it's pretty easy to set a forwarding filter on one's e-mail to [number]@tmomail.net or whatever your carrier's SMS gateway is. Okay, that's minorly geeky, but IMHO not much of a hurdle at all :) - Adam Lasnik

You can configure multiple email addresses on your account page (http://friendfeed.com/account/); for now, we'll send mail to the one you designate as "primary". You can set [number]@tmomail.net as the primary address and we'll happily send mail to it, which should be delivered as SMS; however, the email messages that we sent won't be properly formatted or clipped to 140 characters, so they may look ugly or get split over multiple SMS messages (and so you may get charged more if you pay per use). - Tudor Bosman

Adam that is exactly what i did. its very easy - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど from fftogo

Thanks again Tudor! - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど from fftogo

Now I just have to solve the problem that nobody cares about me enough to send me direct messages. - Bryce Roney

Bryce++ LOL - Rah-PM 2012

This feature really rocks. I'm glad it's built into the system here instead of having to be provided by a 3rd party as is is on twitter. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

wow, finally! - orie

Replied from my inbox .. it appeared on the DM by the time I switched back to FF ! Amazing :) - Ahsan Ali

Well done FF!! DM to a room can be really useful! Bryce LoL, Scoble Rotfl.. - CantorJF

All sounds good, Bret. Next up IM alerts please. ;-) I'm trying to cut down on email. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Please develop a decent mobile/iphone interface - Frank

amazing! - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Great news. I admire your profession on e-mails. - Alp

+1 that the lock and >> icons need a bunch of work (rethought?). The emailing is a very nice thing to have, though. But could we also possibly turn it off please? :) - Karl Knechtel

Wow. VERY cool! - Iain Baker

New to Friendfeed but this looks like a great feature! Thanks - Medical Alarm Concepts

this is very cool - Peter Efland

Tudor ftw! - Rick Cogley