8. The group description, name and username should be saved when you click to add services or change the group's picture. At the moment changes are lost. A warning should appear at least. Having them save would mean you wouldn't have to go into the group settings page twice, for example, to add a description and a service upon creating a new group.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm very picky about my urls, if I create a private group, can the url be "http://friendfeed.com/hoopsom..." ? Ultimately I'd like to be able to "tag" content and then look at all content I've tagged or labled by going to a specific url under my username. groups are more powerful than tags because I can auto-populate them in lots of interesting ways. I think of tags as a generalization of "like" I don't want to say that I like something just because I want to be able to find it later.
- Hoop
Hoop, no to the URL, groups are in the format: http://friendfeed.com/<groupname>. As for tagging, yep, simply add a # before a word and that turns into a link to the search for that word, e.g. #FriendFeed or for all my suggestions and bugs posts like this use #betakoltaglist
- Kol Tregaskes
How about "liking comments"...like the ones on this post? Could be a nightmare for FF coders...
- Mitchell Tsai
Bumping this FF ssuggestions at #betakoltaglist for my reference while Search is working. Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions but not these are very old and I'm using this weekend to go through them. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
1. Indications for all your feeds (not just DMs) to show the number of new posts and possibly new comments + Ability to click on the number and have it go to a page where it shows only these new posts (and probably ones that come in after) and not the old posts: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
4. If the service icons are not to turn (which I’m kinda switching to liking) then we need the duplicate detector to be added with settings to prioritise selective services: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf... UPDATE: Dup detector is back but not perfect and still does not work with micro-blogging services. See suggestions...
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- Kol Tregaskes
IMPLEMENTED: 7. A “smooth” real-time feature – with real-time still on and new posts and comments coming in that are pushing entries down the page, have the post you are viewing mid-page down stay exactly where it is on your screen while the scroll bar moves down. Avoids the “jumping” effect: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
8. New bookmarklet with the same new features the new share box.
- Kol Tregaskes
9. New Notifier which allows, for example, selection of your filters.
- Kol Tregaskes
Another reason to do the namespacing thing I was getting at elsewhere (i.e. /namlhaz/feeds/johnqpublic wouldn't prevent Mr. Public from signing up later). Which also allows me to have a "webcomics" private feed while other users also have one. :)
- Karl Knechtel
Karl, this could be a reasonably good workaround for my request for categories. I'd still need to tag the entries in some way but could use, for example, http://beta.friendfeed.com/koltreg... for my photography tagged posts, which I could share out in a nice tidy-ish URL. It's not perfect as I would need to use a unique tag name but not a bad solution. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Sort my groups based on update time the way it used to. I really miss that.
- amygeek
42. Sidebars move down with your viewing post or as Kevin Fox has suggested have the main body and the sidebars as 2 separate scrollable entities: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol - PLEASE can we have daily/weekly email digest facility that we ALREADY HAD in the old FF?
- Matthew Todd
Bumping this FF ssuggestions at #betakoltaglist for my reference while Search is working. Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions but not these are very old and I'm using this weekend to go through them. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Or type something like this into the search box to see and join in posts using superlatives: "likes:3 intitle:(coolest or best or funniest or top)"
- Kol Tregaskes
David, you're aware that ff was already bought, right? ... and by facebook, no less
- Chris Heath
David, yep sadly FriendFeed was bought out by Facebook a while back. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes, I know.. I did not use ff so much. I joined because Scoble used to post to twitter from there, joined to comment. Then used to co back to reply to comments, like & comment on posts. Friendfeed got very useful to post everything I did to twitter including blog. But then I started with posterous which posts everywhere, removed blogspot from ff cuz it was just duplicate, youtube...
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- David Gross
from email
I've just soft launched the Beginner's room: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - feel free to subscribe and pass on. It might be a good idea to point any newcomers you find this way too.
Any feedback can be left here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf... and you can see all the "guides" here: http://bit.ly/10vcK. The whole group needs a thorough check, so if you find any problems give me a shout and please suggest any new content on the feedback post.
- Kol Tregaskes
I just posted a blog entry and I'm pretty sure Google spidered it within a few seconds. I was surprised to see it show up when I was searching on something related a little while later. Big wow moment.
- Matt M (inactive)
Very interesting movie with/ by Ricky Gervais. Its premise is a world in which nobody lies or even knows what a lie is... everybody is completely honest all the time.
- Philipp Lenssen
I took away that the lying bit was just to soften the blow of the "Christianity is fairy tale" message that dominated a large portion of the movie. You'll notice in the beginning that people weren't just being honest, they were stating every thing that ran across their minds. Apparently in this world, you have to say exactly what you're thinking all the time, instead of holding thoughts back.
- EricaJoy
Well done, Philipp. :) I would use this in a study. My hypothesis would be that people refuse to use their minds if they know they can rely on a tool which will solve the problem for them. And then I would measure the amount of people who won't notice it until the results page is shown.
- Rami Botros
My eyes went straight to the search box+button so put me down as one who only noticed on the results. Of course I self-justify this by feeling that it was the more efficient way round to do it ... little point in reading the rest of the page for most searches ;-) I expect an favicon would work differently, relatively rare though the font is.
- immaterial
A combo box is a combination of a text box and a drop-down box. You can use it to select an item from a list or type in your own value. Auto-complete boxes are often implemented with these.
- Gabe
I hope all browsers supports it soon
- Ahmed Magdy
Somebody posted this yesterday. I already changed OurDoings registration to use type="email", and I used type="url" a couple places on the site integration page.
- Bruce Lewis
Standard makers seem to always try put the features into HTML. Website makers seem to always try to put the features into JavaScript/ CSS. And not just because of the chicken and egg problem of browsers not yet supporting the element, but also perhaps because UI needs are too specific to define in advance (as soon as you want additional feature X from the UI element -- say, a Calendar...
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- Philipp Lenssen
Well, it's best if a browser knows what is supposed to go into an input area (so it can natively validate it and whatnot) and if it can be styled (so the website author can choose how it looks). To accomplish that it's not an either/or choice, Philipp.
- James Robinson
Well if e.g. the date differentiates between busy and free dates for your AcmeCalendar picker, then the browser would not be able to natively validate the input (unless one could provide a standardized Ajax API URL to the widget handling this stuff?), or would it? So you'd be back to your own JS. Agreed it's not an either-or situation -- one could use the native elements as long as they...
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- Philipp Lenssen
I don't agree with the notion that life on Earth originated on Mars (or any other planet). I think it started and evolved from chemical reactions right here. Still, love this graphic out of context.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
there is still a chance that it was carried here from other sources (comets from other systems etc). The only thing we can say is that it's here :)
- alphaxion
I need to find a list of UK speak so that I can incorporate it in my daily vernacular here in the States. :)
- Derrick
gotta wonder how many of these are transformers
- vijay
@derrick a fav outburst of mine is "goat molesting, gerbil felcher". If I want to confuse a person, I'll yell "yoda raped your dog". list of some apparently strong profanities removed to stop kols thread from deteriating :)
- alphaxion
Oh my stars, alpha...anything a little less, uh, vulgar? A friend I studied with here went to boarding school in London (originally from Thailand) and he used to call people stupid gits. I always loved that.
- Derrick
there's the modifier of git - get. eg "cheeky gets!". Sorry if I turned the thread blue, I was being a cuntmuffin ;)
- alphaxion