I agree. In fact he stated that Facebook would improve, which someone makes me think that it'll do that at the expense of FriendFeed. - Jan Ole Peek

I think he had to - your brother was sending all his users away - Jesse Stay

Instead he basically confirmed the rumors that work on friendfeed has pretty much stopped and instead the team is focusing on bringing friendfeed style updates in to Facebook. Obviously, there's a sector of the community that could care less about what's being done to Facebook. - Alex Scoble

To be fair I doubt he'd know for certain what FF's future is. - Mark H

He didn't say FriendFeed was going away - I am willing to bet money it will not go away - Jesse Stay

I clicked on over to the articles mentioned and as soon as they loaded I found myself thinking, "Oh good grief. I couldn't care less about Facebook." Couldn't drum up enough interest to even skim the information. I'd love to see an actual write up about the state of FF though. - pea

We all know that it's going away, the question is when. Consumers don't like vagaries. They want to know that something is going to be around for a long time. Right now we have no idea how long friendfeed will be around and of course this is turning people off. - Alex Scoble

I was a fluff post by Paul. "We hear your noise and something is going to happen but we won't tell you yet so keep waiting." - Rochelle

I thought it was perfectly reasonable, for a walrus. :-) - Glen Mistletoe

Yep, Rochelle. That's why I think they would have been better off waiting until they knew something more concrete, instead of what they gave us. - Alex Scoble from IM

Alex, it's not going away. - Jesse Stay

It doesn't matter, Jesse...it only matters what it feels like...and right now to a lot of people it feels like it's going away. - Alex Scoble

And I'm telling people not to feel that way - Jesse Stay

I guess I'm not sufficiently confused. Development on FriendFeed has stopped, the team is spread out at Facebook implementing FriendFeed-like features. At least that's how I've interpreted everything Paul, Bret, et al have said (or implied) since the acquisition. The interview Paul did with Steve Gillmor at Facebook, other video you can find, etc. - Ken Sheppardson

Sounded like a confirmation no work will be done on FF. I'll give it a year until Facebook pulls the plug due to bandwidth costs. - Rodfather

I think it was as solid as it could be and addressed Scoble position; FF's not going away, and further development is still planned & underway. - sofarsoShawn

<sigh> - Ken Sheppardson

And I was just about to add a rev to the FF plug-in for Firefox. Maybe I'll wait and see how it all turns out - Dave Hodson

Yep, Jesse, I appreciate that you are doing that. I guess we should all do that. - Alex Scoble

Agree a lot of writing, but not much said. - Kim Landwehr

Ken has it right *sigh*. Why would Paul even post if he's not going to say anything? Jesse, it "may" stay, but right now that's not the plan. If it were, they'd be screaming from the mountain tops not to go anywhere.... - Matthew DeVries

It doesn't matter, Matthew. friendfeed exists as long as we say it does. Scream it from the rooftops that friendfeed is alive and kicking! - Alex Scoble

This is a community driven service...as long as the community exists, so does the service. I'll turn off the lights when every one else leaves. - Alex Scoble from IM

I agree his response was less than convincing and actually a bit concerning.... oh and of course he is unwilling to leave a comment on this thread ... =\ - Nicholas Kreidberg

Yeah, so we have to make our own response. Do it now! This is your call to action! - Alex Scoble from IM

I'll hang out as long as friends are here. But I no longer feel part of Paul et al's "crew". - Matthew DeVries

Jesse - what makes you so certain FF will not go away? Do you have some inside scoop?? ;) - Susan Beebe

"FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world"?!? So, in other words, Facebook is gonna look awesome, right? - Steven Perez

How does it feel like "it's going away"? Aside from people saying it, that is? I mean, traffic seems to me to be reasonably steady. Individual people come and go; it's kind of true of any forum that not everyone is on all the time at the same volume. - Andrew C

If enough people start shouting that a bad thing is happening, Andrew, it can feel like it is. That's how bank runs happen and panics/stampedes/tramplings at concerts/public venues. - Alex Scoble

Yeah, but... that's awfully stupid. - Andrew C

What does smart or stupid have to do with it...it's an emotional response. Completely different part of the brain. - Alex Scoble

I think bank runs, tramplings, and the like are stupid. There's needless havoc caused by people acting, well, stupidly. - Andrew C

And if I said that your comments made me sad, would you say that was stupid too? - Alex Scoble

Probably. Thanks to the flu, I am feeling particularly misanthropic today. - Andrew C

ROFL at least you are being consistent! - Alex Scoble from IM

I don't like cryptic people, and the people in charge of FF are becoming more and more cryptic. Not going to leave until the kracken takes us, but the butterfly metaphor was stupid. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Andrew: a lot of little things have been going wrong that usually get fixed quickly. Since the developers have been busy with other new projects (read: integrating FF designs into FB), these things have not been fixed as quickly as they ordinarily had. And since growth has been more or less steady, a sudden influx of new people is unlikely to be the problem. Add this state to Paul's statement, and things don't look good. - Steven Perez from IM

Well, OK, fair enough. - Andrew C

Oh no, facebook is gonna monch monch monch us. - Mark Essel

The news from Paul wasn't really news and I read it that it's more news for FB not FF. :-( - Kol Tregaskes