hate constantly self-editing everything i type or say in an effort to not piss off everyone and it makes no difference cos half of them are spoiling for a fight at any given moment and i should just fucking shut up and let the unending shit storms happen without my pathetic attempts at levity or deference. God,i wish i could just vanish right now.
Yes, Jill, I know you've had some bad runs here on FF. Here's hoping you've found a nice balance.
- Yolanda
There does seem to be a lot of tension around here lately. It's starting to get very tiring.
- Katy S
Yeah, the other day when it got tense I decided that it would be a good time to check my plants and pet my cats.
- Katy S
I don't deliberately go out of my way to offend anyone, but like many of us, I do have a little rant sometimes, and the things I feel passionate about. If that does upset some folks, because they don't agree with my viewpoint at that time so be it. I'm always willing to engage in reasoned argument. Start that name calling shit, and I'll just tell you to FOAD, and then ignore you, as you're obviously of rather low intelligence.
- Ian May
actually, it WAS here on FF. things have changed a bit since then. mercifully. or i wouldn't be here anymore.
- Hieronymous Boob
I still push my point that it would be helpful on some posts if there was an audio feature, so the full intent of an issue could be more easily understood...but I guess it could also be argued that audio might make rants more intense...would be interesting to see tho.
- ᏓᏰ #team Monique
I don't know why it keeps sending me the last comment...is it only my problem or does somebody else get the "Si...ti aspetto!......^o^" comment every week???
- bergadario
from email
1度だけ富士スカイラインへドライブした事があります。目の前で観る富士山は筆舌しがたいほどの雄大さがありますね。
- Ami Iida
@bergadario >ciao, Dario!....... I'm sorry. . . . but I have no particularly deep meaning........^_^
- keiko-san
jnman, google's translation service has it's limitations. I don't know what is different about that particular comment, though. This is anecdotal, but I would roughly estimate that 20% of the posts I've tried google translate responds with at least some null translation results.
- Micah
Thank you Micah! Josh just showed me how to do it. I didn't know you had to open an individual post by clicking the time. I'm tech challenged. :)
- Trish Haley
Trish, thank you for the honesty. Ahhhh, _documentation_ so often an afterthought *scolds self*. Actually, if someone wants to pitch in help make a tutorial, please let me know. I'm working on a full set of pre-loaded configurations for each support translation language ~ maybe it will get released tonight (hard not to be in all the great conversations, though - that's the rub :D
- Micah
Thanks, chrisofspades. I've been meaning to ask how the activity on ffThreadKiller is lately? If ya-all haven't checked it out yet head over to http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah
Micah - tried out the bookmarklet on safari :))) Awesome. interesting how much better the translation is that the google.com/translate .(google.com version doesn't seem to do transliterated text. - the version your script accesses is getting a fair amount of it.)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
activity waned. and I've been waffling on some back-end decisions that's preventing me from updating it.
- chrisofspades
from email
Rob, cool. That's an interesting comparison.
- Micah
chrisofspades, yeah, I guess for a lot of people the statistic is interesting initially, but doesn't have legs. Have you considered expanding what statistics it gathers? You've already worked out how it spiders, what other calculations are feasible? I've seen a lot of requests for date range searching. Maybe some slice of data related to the timestamp.
- Micah
date range searching would be sweet chrisofspades! if there's anything I can do to help please let me know! test maybe?
- metalerik
Friendfeed Hacks Group - A place to discuss and share about tweaking Friendfeed with Greasemonkey, UserJS, Stylish, or anything to make the FF experience even better. http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Keith - @tsudo
I'm not sure which Universe episodes I like better. The Walternate Universe seems to have more going on for sure, and that's where 'Real Olivia" is. I loved the call back to the Sensory Deprivation chamber from Season 1. I wonder what's going to happen when Olivia gets put in there. Think her real life will all come back to her? Speaking of The Walternate Universe, I wonder why they...
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- Gunnyman™
Gunny, he is the star of Human Target which makes it tough to have him back and Anna used to date him and they no longer date, which also might make it hard, but it would be great to have him show up for an episode or two if they could swing it
- RAPatton
OMG How could I forget that. Thanks RAP
- Gunnyman™
You know what would be nice? The ability to DM to a list. Say I make a list of people called SoapMakers, and I find a great soap making resource. I'd like to be able to enter the list name SoapMakers in the 'To' field, and this link would be DM'd to anyone on my SoapMakers list that I'm subscribed to.
Feeds/Rooms are almost what you are talking about, almost.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Bret Taylor mentioned that was on the to-do list during the press conference. Should be on its way.
- Nathan Chase
While you could use e-mail to spread that information, people like myself don't enjoy getting shared links via e-mail. Distribution Lists would be an awesome idea to quickly share information with a select group. I like the idea.
- Joshua
Brian, these services are all similar to a fashion, but they are used differently. Having some sort of messaging integration in to friendfeed is very key to the survivability of the service, I think. There have been many times when I wished I could talk directly to one person about something and instead had to bring the conversation outside to gtalk or MSN Live which can be an unwieldy process at best.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yes. Much easier than typing in all the names. Just like an email list.
- Rodfather
Nathan Chase, do you have a link to that to-do list? I'm curious what else is on it.
- Rochelle
DM to a Room requires people "Accept" your "invite". Not so in lists.
- vijay
Almost Alex, but not quite. Brian, it pretty much is email, but I don't have the email addy for everyone I follow on FF. You can DM a room (though it's not a DM anymore, just a normal post), but not everyone I want to talk to is in that room. And Rodfather: that's it *exactly*. It just makes sense (to me) to have lists serve multiple purposes like that. One list, two different uses.
- FFing Enigma
I haven't found a use yet to DM someone in Friendfeed oddly enough. In a work context, I could certainly see the need. What are some everyday use cases where you just wouldn't use email?
- Lou Paglia
Lou, I follow 1300 people: I don't have email addresses for everyone. Actually, I only have email addresses for maybe 20 at best. If I'm already encouraged to break people up into lists, why not make those lists usable in more than one way?
- FFing Enigma
@Rochelle: I think Nathan and I saw it in the same place, Scoble's videos of the demo. You have to go to scobleizer.blip.tv to see them.
- Alejandro
What do you think, if the service icons were not coming back would having the duplicate detector with optional service priorities (where you can pick, for example, FriendFeed as priority and thus other services dumped under Related Entries) be a solution?
Thanks to the magic of Greasemonkey I can get service icons showing up in the stream, so while it's annoying that they're not there, it's not so big a deal. But if the full set of service icons aren't restored on user pages, there's no way to really rectify that.
- Chris Charabaruk
I'm kinda changing my mind about the icons. If the icons are not visible then you interact with each post without discimination.
- Kol Tregaskes
In the old FF, most commented on FF posts and less so on Diggs, for example. Now that you can't see the icons people might ignore this? Just a thought.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol... My thoughts exactly. As per Thursday's demo, each post is treated equally no matter what the service
- Johnny
Yep, methinks so too. Gosh, it's a hard one to decide.
- Kol Tregaskes
You know, some content needs to be discriminated against. I don't see it as desirable to get equal comments on different content. It's also a big pain to filter by service without the icons, because you'd have to manually create a filter for each service, and it's the rarer content types where the filters were most useful.
- Mr. Gunn
Perhaps services like iLike and Last.fm should be playable within FF if the track is available? That might have music-related services. It doesn't really help those posts without tracks.
- Kol Tregaskes
I want to discriminate against links to music and movies if I'm somewhere where people's heads will turn at sudden blasts of noise; or if I'm somewhere with low bandwidth capacity. I want the cues that let me subconsciously skip over stuff I don't have time for. The Greasemonkey script is great - if I'm somewhere I can install it, but I work almost every day at a computer where I can't.
- Deborah Fitchett
beta is so buggy. the add to list window doesn't scroll. why do they work on live feed when there are so many options they should be working on??
- NoahDavidSimon
I'd definitely like to see a service priority setting in my account settings. FriendFeed native posts should always take #1 priority if the linked content is identical.
- Nathan Chase
Um... We don't really need another status feature, do we? What with Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, YouAre, Koornk, Facebook, MySpace...
- dgw
There's already a kinda status-y thing on FriendFeed. Just post a message. On the other hand, I think there's certainly room for adding the ability to have a <160 character micro-bio, a la Twitter's bio field. I'd like the opportunity to say who I am, because sometimes my feeds don't do a good enough job of spelling it out.
- Chris Charabaruk
You can add a little user bio now. That might help.
- vimoh
Yep but no status updates. No sure it's needed but could be fun. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just feed your status update into friendfeed from whatever service you use, why tack on another feature that will only be abused by the marketing types?
- Mr. Gunn
“Now that we can put digg.com/ in front of any URL to digg a page and get the toolbar (which is very neat!), can FriendFeed do something similar? :-)” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
It steals traffic from content providers.
- Ninh Nguyen
But you're sharing the content on FF and thus more people will then see it.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ninh, if you mean when you click on a link within Digg.com then yes the toolbar shouldn't be there. But if you put friendfeed.com/ in front of the URL then that is fine.
- Kol Tregaskes
When you select to delete an entry and it's been shared to multiple feeds, can we please have the option to select where to delete the entry from, e.g. from all feeds or from a selection?
Perhaps a simple dropdown list of the feeds the entry is shared to could appear when you click on Delete entry and you can tick the ones to remove it from (with all ticked by default). #betakoltag-sg-searches
- Kol Tregaskes
How does it work atm, if I select to delete an entry on my home feed that is also shared to the Feedbackk room/group, will it only delete the entry on my home feed? Gosh lots to test tomorrow. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Man, I thought the ones with multicolor backgrounds were difficult!
- Heather
I think their system was all spastic earlier. I got a bunch of junk characters, and even when it made sense, it wouldn't work. It sorted itself out a bit later, but sheesh.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I got some weirdos earlier from Windows Live ... I think it's time to start looking for some alternate method of preventing automated signups ...
- Louis Simoneau
I saw a captcha recently that included a bunch of Greek characters.
- Andrew C (✓)
Another translation for 想 is: "Feel like doing something" - But we feel that reCaptcha should do something. Many of those strange characters during the last weeks show us that they may exchange some of their employees...
- Lumino_GmbH
I regularly get thrown a captcha when trying to view Facebook profiles from behind a corporate proxy and often when I'm not. It's almost like Facebook doesn't want me to view social network information when I'm not logged into Facebook.
- no name
BTW, recaptcha is sort of dumb in the sense that anything can be provided for the word that appears to be hardest to OCR. They don't know what it is either.
- no name
"Last Sunday's True Blood took all the long-winded fang banter about vampire kings, vampire queens, magisters, vampire equality acts, and "authorities" and turned it into something interesting. From here on out, vampire politics cease to be boring! Some NSFW pics. I've been accused before of being a bit of a "fangirl" when it comes to True Blood. Sorry haters, but this is going to be one of those times. Last night had the best conclusion in True Blood history. Plus, Ginger's back. But let's let the Pros and Cons do the talking shall we? Pro: Eric soars in on the vampcam. He's like the wind, that one."
- RAPatton
"Pro: FINALLY THE END SCENE: Pro: Amazing. Even the exaggerated pausing and vigorous scenery chewing doesn't stop this moment from becoming the best ending on True Blood thus far. Nothing has topped this. Nothing. Leave it to Dennis O'Hare to make vampire politics interesting. Give this man every award that exists. Also if I could have made that "Gangsta" necklace say "EGOT" I would have. Dennis O'Hare for the EGOT! "
- RAPatton
Heads up, the linked in article does have unclothed female image in it that is NSFW
- RAPatton
yeah, the episode had some great lines in it
- Imabug
Russell is the Big Bad. The Scoobies will have to defeat him by the end of the season.
- Michelle Jones
"We learned many valuable lessons from this week's True Blood, such as how dating a vampire never allows for enough time to make a shitty scrapbook, how to tan cry, and the ABCs of vampire hate-sexin'. Enjoy the NSFWness. Pro: Sookie is still screaming, because Bill is at the foot of her bed hospital trying to steal her light or eat her or something. I'm not really sure what it is at this point — either way, it's loud. Pro: The screams cause Alcide to make this startled puppy face."
- RAPatton
"Pro: There's a were-b*tch in your study. Isn't there always? Pro: Debbie is back! I love this character so much I think she should come with a Cosmo Kramer style laugh track entrance. Hey everybody it's Debbie! And naturally she gets to deliver this gem: "They killed my Cooter." Pro: "She's a c*nt. But she's a special c*nt." They should write that on Sookie's headstone. Special Kind of C*nt. "
- RAPatton
"Con: A new waitress, a new plot line, a new set of magical powers. Remember earlier when we said True Blood is crap at foreshadowing? Meet the new witch. Probably!"
- RAPatton
It would be great if not only Haiti, but other countries with lack of fresh water were able to get their hands on these Hippo-Rollers. Right now they use jugs but how long will a couple jugs of water last before they have to walk miles again to get a little more water?
...I've read about these before first showing up in parts of Africa where getting daily drinking water is a day-long, backbreaking chore. it's sad it's needed, but what a brilliant innovation
- .LAG liked that
@Lag, they are trying to get them out to Hait but so far can send very few in comparison to how many they need. Each one cost 100 dollars. Lets hope more people have this available to them.
- Adriana
@Adriana: it should remind us of how blessed we are. If we want clean, drinkable water, we turn on a faucet in our homes. in many parts of the world, it's a multi-hour chore to collect enough water for a few days.
- .LAG liked that
@Lag, you are so right. I come from a third world country myself, so the blessings hit me in the face every day. I am so grateful!
- Adriana
Is there more than one bluebird available for sale? My aunt has a thing for bluebirds and this would make a great little birthday gift for her.
- Corinne L
A smashing success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. This is very cool. If you haven't yet, go ahead and do so. Original post here http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark Krynsky
Added. Surely I'm not the only FF'er in Africa?
- Neill Adamson
@Neill, that's great. You just got us to the 6th continent. I highly doubt we can hit 7 as there surely can't be someone from Antarctica that FriendFeeds.
- Mark Krynsky
The Antarctica challenge: OK, here's the plan: we need to contact Eli Duke (http://twitter.com/elisfanclub) he's tweeting from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. We have until February (some background I just found: on his 1st stint in the Antarctic he was a dish washer. In 2006 he wrote a functioning RubyOn Rails site, got burned out and tried to give it away on Craig's List...unsuccessfully--it's back online now http://listyourlist.com/ . McMurdo Photo: http://is.gd/8Ltk)
- Micah
I reshared to the Translation room to help boost your international participation.
- Shannon Jiménez
nah, friendfeed isn't a niche play. it's got dozens of users! ;)
- Jeremy Toeman
Alrighty then, I just sent Eli a tweet (http://friendfeed.com/e... ) with a plea. I hope I'm not taken for a crazy. Hmm, I know that could be my first reaction.
- Micah
@Robert: caught up with an old buddy over a cigar, bottle of wine, and a few glasses of quality bourbon. and i have to be up at 6. so i'm having fun. ;) sorry we didn't get to catch up more at the 12seconds/uservoice party!
- Jeremy Toeman
WTF!!! Nobody from India... ??? Am I the only one..:)
- Devakishor
Well I was late to this party. Great idea Mark. I have all of New Zealand to myself!
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Turkey is on it must be. Anyhow, and Anyway, they'll be more Balloons One Day All Around Our World, BTW Thats a Great Daft Punk Track ain't it ;-D, Shall We Play it, and what Room shall we doeth Such? It Big enough for All. That is All. Time For Work Now, See You Laters, FriendFeed and Have A Nice But Try Not To Be too naughty Day. :))
- Jason
Why is Erhan Erdogan in the middle of the atlantic ocean on the map? Is he in the Bermuda Triangle or something? lol
- Alan Le
@Micah, great job on recruitment. Eli has added himself and we now have all 7 continents filled.
- Mark Krynsky
Erhan probably got moved accidentally. When I got to the page, and was moving the map, I accidently grabbed someone and moved them to the middle of the Atlantic. Thankfully, it was someone who used a special icon, so it was easy to search and put them back.
- Anika
Hmm, apparently I'm just up the road from Haggis.
- Rob H.
I just added myself. Curious - how do you get different placemarks? I like the Google-looking ones that aren't quite raindrops.
- Tamar Weinberg
Just an addendum to Spidra's explanation: To go back and edit, click the pushpin then click the "Edit" button (look waaay to the left on the page). Then you can click the icon to change, and you'll see Save button next to "Edit"
- Micah
Oh cool. Nice job reviving this guys. Hopefully we get another good round of users to add themselves.
- Mark Krynsky
Kind of frustrating to see how much time I spent on this map and then to find out someone had probably saved their changes over mine - hence mine was gone this entire time. Others should also check for this. In any event, thanks, Spidra, for the tip :) My other pet peeve is Google Maps scrolling incessantly out of nowhere. (Hi Jess.)
- Tamar Weinberg
LOL. That's true. People *do* text me though. Lately that's how 99% of my mobile communication with friends has been going. Nowadays I use on ~250 of the 450 minutes on my VZW plan
- LANjackal
Mine's only an alarm clock. If someone makes the mistake of texting me, I usually don't discover the text until 10pm or so.
- Deborah Fitchett
no. i use it to text my ex-wife updates on the money transfers i make into her account every two weeks. so HA! take that!
- Morgan