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I agree with the text comment, hard enough to look at monitor 8 hrs, then this? I do like the feel and hope ff would be more consistant! - Pentaxfan

I like the interface, but maybe they could apply themes for the people who don't like it. - Alejandro

Get Firefox and learn to use the "Zoom" feature. That makes the text bigger and less gray. - Robert Scoble

we should not need a "Zoom" feature to read this. That's ridiculous. - Jacob Nahin

Get the Firefox extension called "no squint"; press Ctrl + key, to ENLARGE the font!! and Ctrl - keys to reduce font ...very cool! - Susan Beebe

Robert, If my eyes aren't deceiving me, friendfeed was showing my post of the moblogic video. (FBI created terror group) You had commented. Now, my original post is gone from friendfeed, and all the comments went down the drain. Maybe I'm confused.. seems very odd. - bill giltner

Usability feature request: Soft Ivory background, darker font, and text size options please! - Susan Beebe

Do you seriously think that will do antin - Mike Wills from twhirl

any apps that will automatically update friendfeed? tired of refreshing - Jacob Nahin

Fine with me, I'll stay on Twitter and enjoy the increased reliability coming from the drop in users. :) - Shawn Farner from twhirl

The FF user interface needs a good usability review. - israel

I find it interesting that on this "TwitOut" of Scobles, we are all commenting via Twitter - Jacob Nahin

UNCHECK the little box below the comment entry area so you don't cross-post your FriendFeed comments as replies over to twitter. - Susan Beebe

Simon: I can read it and my eyes aren't that good. I don't get why you all hate it. Google Talk's fonts are even smaller and that's how I read Twitter. - Robert Scoble

I think the gray font, and the font size, are definitely readable. You can always install the FF Stylish extension and modify it to meet your desires, should you really want to change the font. Also, I'm surprised someone has not hacked together a twitter-like interface for FF which just displays FF-type posts (i.e., *not* data aggregated from various services). Should be fairly easy, especially with their API. In fact, I've thought of doing it myself but just have not yet had the development time. - Scott Jarkoff

"You can use firefox zoom/install an extension" is not an answer to poor readability. The grey text must go. - Ian Betteridge

I love the gray text, actually and don't get why it's not readable. I think every font choice will get some ire. Maybe they should offer some design choices. It's just a CSS style sheet anyway and easy to change font types. - Robert Scoble

I agree with the comments on the text as well, try wearing sunglasses as it makes it darker ha! I'm going to have to try that now! - Joe Dawson

Yes, that will teach those twitterguys! Hmm, what exactly is your point? - Nico Lumma

My point? That you can replicate much of the addictive qualities of Twitter elsewhere. But, seriously, why does everything need to have a deep point? Twitter will probably be down sometime during the day anyway. - Robert Scoble

it reminds me of my time as a student at the university. to pressure the authorities, we went on strike for a few days. boy, they were really impressed. :) - Nico Lumma

@scobleizer About not getting why this is not readable to some, if there is one thing we ought to realize by now it's that aesthetics are as personal a sense as the sense of taste. I think themes/skins help. - Kamath (नमः)

I don't mind the text. It's readable, and doesn't detract from the original posting. Anyway, thanks for pointing me towards FriendFeed, it seems much more useful (to me) than Twitter (which I personally never got). - Paul Grav

Right. But you still didn't add me to Friedfeed, but you followed me at Twitter. http://friendfeed.com/wiredryo - Ryo / Fuck Facebook from twhirl

ryo even if, he would have to hide most of your stuff as it is not in english and as ff does not take the language problem serious, there is only one way to deal with it: do not subscribe. - Nicole Simon

I hate the grey text too, that's why I like Alert Thingy's white text on black, it's easier on the eye if you have astigmatism. It's not the size of the text that's the issue, it's the pure paleness of it. - Sally Church

How can I turn off certain/all friends of my friends. I get loads of noise in my daily FF email when I'm not interested in that data. No offense Scoble but I prefer to see what you have to say via Twitter or your blog via RSS and occasionally browsing your FF on my own terms. - Jon West

@jon see http://www.louisgray.com/live... - acedanger from twhirl

good for Friendfeed. - SolidSmack from twhirl

Have you noticed that your blog is no longer one of the top blogs on the Wordpress dashboard since you started twittering/friendfeeding? - TimTheFoolMan from twhirl

The readability of the gray text is directly proportional to the brightness/contrast of ones monitor. That's not a good thing; I shouldn't have to adjust my monitors settings or the font size to read stupid dim text. - James