There were some bugs in the "Twitter publishing" code that caused some entries to get published on Twitter when they should not, and others to not get published when they should. I've cleaned up the code to eliminate these problems, but it's possible some settings were lost. Please verify your settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix).
- Paul Buchheit
Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others).
- Paul Buchheit
You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :)
- Paul Buchheit
Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them.
- ianf ⌘
I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box?
- Tony Ruscoe
Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now!
- caj needs a haircut
Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies.
- Paul Buchheit
I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion).
- Mike Reynolds
Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know.
- Brian
Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly.
- Brian
Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status?
- ehaab
ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking.
- ehaab
I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent.
- Daniel Sims
Hi Paul, Mine is still not working. I have also checked the setting page.
- zahedzadeh
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
My father never knew his father. He was an only child, raised by his mother. He never knew why his father either left or was kicked out -- his mother would never tell him. In his late '50s, due to a random web page I wrote about my family, my father was discovered by his half-sister.
It turns out my grandfather had started a new family, even given his new first-born son the same name as my father. My father learned this from his newly found half-sister. He also found out that his father had passed away 10 years before.
- Stephen Mack
All his life, my father loved Jewish culture, had Jewish friends, read Jewish humor books (mostly Leo Rosten).
- Stephen Mack
My father had absolutely zero idea until he was 59 that his father was Jewish.
- Stephen Mack
His mother was Catholic. She never talked about anything Jewish at all. He found it on his own.
- Stephen Mack
I don't know much about anything, but to me there's something to the idea that a Jewish identity is a mix of culture and upbringing and also in the blood.
- Stephen Mack
in the 90's when I setup computers, I would occasionally label the C: drive TOO LOUD - see screen shot. Apparently this generated a few support calls long after I had left. #SaturdayFF
I worked with a guy who used to change the Internet Explorer icon to be Internet Exploder. No one noticed.
- Andy Bakun
I temped at a place where the drives & servers were all named after beers & wines. I asked why one was Sierra Nevada, one was Pyramid, etc and was told what they meant. Then I was told the guy who set em all up was fired for coming back from lunch drunk!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
When I used to work for Kinkos, I always named the drive THE HARDEST DISK IN THE WEST.
- Akiva
#SaturdayFF in college my friend scored tix to u2's zoo tv tour, but the seats were behind the stage, upper level. did not care, too excited. we went early so i could get tshirts for my friends. made our way up to the seats. as we were sitting there some cops came by and swapped our tickets with those they got off scalpers outside (busted!).
Louis Gray: Which is it, sir? Is it "Thou shalt not check in and drive" or is it "I [...] have always been willing to bend the rules a bit, through [...] drive by check-ins"?
It's against the law to text & drive in CA (or operate a phone without a wireless headset), Mo.
- Spidra Webster
What if traffic is completely stopped, as it often is at the 237 & 101 interchange?
- Tudor Bosman
I don't think the cops would count that unless you're actually pulled off onto the shoulder and the parking brake is on. They're even ticketing people who juggle with a meal while driving. They're cited under "distracted driving".
- Spidra Webster
Yeah, Spidra's right, and red light usage is also illegal -- no cell phone usage while the car is running.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Interesting. Dialing and selecting a contact from your phone's address book for the purpose of making a call are specifically allowed (if you use a hands-free device, or your phone's speakerphone): http://dmv.ca.gov/cellula... "This law does not prohibit reading, selecting or entering a phone number, or name in an electronic wireless device for the purpose of making or receiving a phone call. Drivers are strongly urged not to enter a phone number while driving."
- Tudor Bosman
There's a GPS function exemption too, if I remember correctly.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Why, pray tell, do government agencies charge MORE for the privilege of submitting payment online versus mailing in a check? I know that credit card processing has a fee associated with it, but to tack on extra fees on top of that is just gouging and counterproductive.
Bitter because of having to pay FREAKING $470 for a camera ticket in Elk Grove for failure to stop on a right turn AND THEN PAY TONS OF FEES ON TOP OF THAT -->
- Stephen Mack
It's also bizarre to me that they list all of the offenders and their fine in a PDF on their web site: http://saccourt.ca.gov/traffic... -- I know it's public information, but still.
- Stephen Mack
From the blog post: "The Burning Man organization recognizes that the ticket registration and random drawing process has caused many participants frustration and concern over whether they can attend the event this year." ... "We believe we need two weeks to let the dust settle to see how much redistribution happens. Even with that redistribution we know that key people and projects may not get confirmations in time to move forward with their plans. We are looking at options to keep that from happening." ... "Not everyone who wants a ticket this year will get one, that is clear — the demand clearly exceeds supply. But we are going to do everything we can in the coming days to ensure that we preserve and respect the community that supports and creates this event both in the short term and long term. We will be reaching out to you and working with you to make that happen. We recognize that we have work to do to repair the faith in the organization. We are very sorry for the frustration, anxiety and deep disappointment this year’s ticketing experience has caused for so many citizens of Black Rock City."
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
Want to go to Comic-Con 2012? You have to get a Member ID before they open up the system for ticket purchase. Here's the page you have to go to to get your Member ID: https://secure2.comic-con.org/memberi... Seriously. It's like every large convention has turned stupid this year.
- Kevin Fox
Stephen, I was surprised to see the admission in the email from them, since last week they INSISTED that it was all the theme camps who had extra tickets even though everyone was reporting that theme camps were generally completely screwed on tickets. I would like to see them admit that the original lottery promises weren't even held to, though, and now they are just releasing the last...
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- joey
Joey, I agree -- too complex and too poorly communicated from the start, and the BMorg was too stubborn to listen to all the feedback they got that it was a highly flawed and doomed approach they took this year. Kevin's absolutely right, CC's system is a million times better than this ridiculous nightmare (and I say that as a person who managed to get tickets in the first lottery).
- Stephen Mack
And I predict that STEP at the end of the month won't solve the problem. There will still be many complaints from the community. And sometime around then is when they'll realize that about 20k tickets are in the hands of scalpers and speculators.
- Stephen Mack
Damn! I was going celebrate my Reno relocation by going to Burning Man. It sells tickets? And does it this early? (that's way more corporate than I expected!)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Rudi, yup, it's been a early-ticket-required thing for many years now. In part because of how much planning is needed -- they really want to discourage people from showing up at the gate on the night of the burn in the desert with no food and water. For good reason. For many years, the earlier you bought a ticket, the cheaper that ticket was. About 10 years ago they stopped selling last...
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- Stephen Mack
Would it be all that hard to organize a knock off event like two weeks before in the same spot?
- Dario Gomez
Dario, it's public land, run by the BLM, and they would need to approve and give a permit. The logistics of the setup are staggering. (Porta potties, insurance, security, infrastructure, tickets.) You couldn't produce a similar event without immense effort.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
But given the possible profits, and starting off smaller it sounds possible. I'm not into burning man, but I like free markets. I'm a little surprised some corporate entity hasn't started thinking about this.
- Dario Gomez
Dario: Burning Man is all about trying to avoid anything free-market. This is their attempt to deny reality, and it has of course failed.
- Brian Johns
Also, there have been competing events (4th of Juplaya and Burning Bush come to mind) that attempt to recreate some of what Burning Man is and was. The BLM is catching on though, and implementing special closures and controls to fight the proliferation of them.
- Brian Johns
Do you realize it's been 2 1/2 years since THE ACQUISITION? I wrote about this, including the day's perceptions from Ffundercats Josh Haley and Johnny Worthington (from episode 42), Louis Gray, and myself. http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2012...
I wasn't wrong when I picked all four teams for the championships this year.
- Cristo
Did you? Must have gone the way of all old FF threads.
- The original Kevin
Let us hope the Patriots's sacrifice has the desired result. Because a world with both Romney as president and obnoxious New York fans being even more obnoxious is not one that I want to live in.
- The original Kevin
The Giants beat the Patriots again. Cancel the election. God still loves us.
- Cristo
Cool. No need to go and vote since we already know the outcome. 9.9
- Morton Fox
Fascinating. Some of the many things I didn't know about him: He was of Norwegian descent, a decorated combat pilot in WW2, a medical inventor (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), and he wrote the screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
And he didn't like the Gene Wilder film version of Willy Wonka.
- Stephen Mack
I have a feeling that he would have liked the Burton Willy Wonka even less, darker jokes notwithstanding. That newer one was completely lacking charm and just aggressively weird.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
We love him for his Norwegianness. I grew up with his books :)
- Eivind
Eivind, me too. :) I guess my favorite would be "Fantastic Mr Fox" but I've been reading "The Enormous Crocodile" to my kids a lot lately.
- Stephen Mack
i am not a big fan of the things he wrote for kids but i really like the short stories he has written for adults, with unexpected twists and dark endings. and the only novel i read by him, "my uncle oswald", is absolutely hilarious!
- grizabella
I love him. I grew up with many of his books, even the non kid friendly ones. He's an important part of my upbringing.
- Georgia
Yesterday evening my son take a first look to the "original" Wonka movie. This morning he still sing the Hoompa Loompa song!
- Xabaras (G.O.)
I have a collection of his short stories that includes a biography, fascinating guy. I think I've loved his writing all my life. One of his stories, The Man From the South, was an excellent episode of Alfred Hitchcock Theater, and also used by Quentin Tarantino in Four Rooms (I think that was the title).
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
AHHhahahaa, not really ~ his site with all those words but NO content, just so #EPICALLYFAILTASTIC Every time Mashable tweets God eats a baby.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Hey Shawn, Just saw this thread and always open to feedback - what do you think we can do to improve Mashable in your eyes? Thanks in advance, Pete
- mashable
WoW....Mashable!....errrrr....heyyyyy....ummmm....never met anyone famous before, Hiiii....no no J/K So you’re serious in asking your question? So to your point, you’re HOT right now, but YES, lacking in really key areas, but nonetheless you’re raking in the money.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
To your question specifically, as @Mashable’s grown you’ve aggrandized & annexed territory over reaching beyond sufficient networks and to answer you question appropriately if you serious and in asking what you can do to improve in my own eyes, we gotta do this in a manner more appropriate than a FF thread. So i Ieft you my info at mashable.com, lemme know, I am severly curious and interested to see now what you think, and yea my apologies as to what I said. Im seriously surprised you care.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
always interested in making mashable better! you've got my details I think if you wanna mail thoughts over - saw your mail come in earlier
- mashable
Yeah you already mentioned as much, but read above again. Mashable better in what terms?In what areas? With what criteria? And how would you be measuring: both qualitatively/quantifably? Through my eyes is far to{ ambigously metaphorical (pretty colours vs how things are understood and through what POV etc etc) otherwise I'm just pissing against the wind. Sooooooooo Tamara has my info...
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- The Real sofarsoShawn
from iPhone
I get it all the time, oh you're a Fixer, well Fix it!" *sigh* & and btw STFU Livy, my fees are very resonable for the impeccable/range services I deliver which always work.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Ahhahahhaaha, thanks Micah! It's funny cuz it's true. But must've been some other sofarsoShawn....wonder what hist tweets looked like though ~ Micah????
- The Real sofarsoShawn
This was Micah bumpn again: obvi XD Sooo why don't I delete this: #1 it's funny #2 now that Cashmore and I buddy's, well on the same page ---> see #1 ;) Nonetheless enoug has been had.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
from FFHound!
"Meet John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it. Fleming's Facebook status was posted by Literally Unbelievable, a Tumblr that collects images of Facebookers who think Onion satires are the real deal and post them on their walls. Below is an update Fleming posted (from Friday, according to the blogger) for his followers to read about Planned Parenthood's "wholesale" approach to providing abortions:"
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
...yes, they could have won, if given more time. but I strongly feel that the game was defined more on what the Giants did (and didn't do) than what the Patriots did. The Patriots didn't lose. The Giants WON!
- .LAG liked that
#SuperbowlSundayFF In the '90s, I kept a notebook where I'd write down story ideas: plots, characters, snatches of dialogue, anything that came to me so that I could remix it later into short fiction. Some of the pages were very detailed, but I remember one page had just three words: "Madonna is fifty."
Some of my notes were cryptic and I'd come back later to expand on them so I wouldn't forget what I was trying to do. But I didn't need to expand on that one -- just seeing those words, I'd remember the idea fully. In some near-future short fiction, I'd work in a reference to Madonna being fifty years old, perhaps with a kid or two.
- Stephen Mack
In my head at the time, it seemed like a neat twist: To take one of the most polarizing and successful figures in music -- a woman with exquisite business sense, no end of commercial success, an avant-garde and controversial style, a decade of hits, tremendous cultural relevance and youth appeal -- and project her into the status of a washed-up has-been playing state faires. That would...
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- Stephen Mack
I should have written "Madonna is one hundred."
- Stephen Mack
"When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn't know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you servants worthy of my rule. This new government shall become a tool of my oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet