This sounds like such a "press-approved" statement Paul ;) - Ana

Ana's comment was not "press-approved", however. - Paul Buchheit

damn. - MG Siegler

had the opposite initial impact than I imagined, perhaps the speed is what facilitates a lot more interaction to engage follow-up - Lou Paglia

I agree, Paul. I've found myself engaging in conversations more since the Beta release. - Alejandro

I was honestly skeptical. The first day of the beta was really crazy from my side as a mere user. It must have been a blur of coffee & Red Bull for the FF gang. But after 4 days I love it. I have probably interacted with FF more in the last week than in the last three months combined. Congratulations on one hell of a launch. I wish you all many sleep filled nights. - Kevin D. White

Paul, there is option in old FF to import Twitter contacts & lots other options in 'Find & Invite', i dont see them in New FF. Have you removed them? - Roshan Ramachandran

Roshan: we will be adding them to the beta. - Benjamin Golub

Curious.. is this graph conversations per active user or total number of conversations? - Bindu Reddy

FWIW, I have commented and liked more things in the last couple of days than before.. it was really distracting the 1st day but since than my feed has slowed down considerably - Bindu Reddy

FF如此，我很欣慰~ - 阿石

虽然新版很多功能很不错，但是新版的版面看起来没旧版的舒服 - dokie

Hoping for more buzz so it keeps comin'! Great to see so many familiar names posting again - Charlie Anzman

The new Friendfeed is pretty good. Congrats! - fbrunel

The new FF is cool. Filters are my favorite! - netvista

not actually, users just are testing this new interface before they are tired of it. keep watching. Would you like to release it again half of month later? - Aether

WOW look at that graph!! That is some serious FF lovin' traffic - wooo hoooo!!!! Congrats! The beta is a hit!!! I love it, keep up the great work guys!!! :) - Susan Beebe

I disagree... friendfeed has been so quiet lately i almost feel like.. http://beta.friendfeed.com/zee... just to get some attention!! - Rob Sellen :o)

This app rules. And moves. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Maybe what we see are the discussions of new Beta Friendfeed? :) - Alex Kapranoff

@kkapp Sure, this is just a buzz about FriendFeed Beta - Roman Zolotarev

The key here is the "rising" slope of the *Replies* graph after the BETA launch. While the overall offset could be due to many reasons like old users logging back in to try the beta, launch hype, Scoble etc, the flat slope of the "likes" chart and the rising slope of the "replies" chart tells me we will continue to see increased *engagement* even when the excitement has worn off. - vijay

ｃｏｏｌ - carmenlu

Congratulations! - Jeff P. Henderson

Is that the hockey stick Arrington was going on about in the Gillmor Gang discussion? - Paul Jacobson

The Beta rocks and personally I noticed I am using FF a lot more since Monday - Mathieu Ayel

superb implementation Paul can we please have stats for most LIKED content and people easy to find without having to leave the site? - Thomas Power

Thomas, I'd say those stats are fine off site and on FFholic. We have Best of so that's fine for me. - Kol Tregaskes

Initially I *hated* the redesign ... but it's grown on me quickly and I find myself being a little bit more *involved* than usual. ;) - Brandon

I'm using FF more at the moment ... but not from beta. I'm using it more because Nambu of the iPhone supports it. - Mr K

did you exclude all of the threads relating to the beta launch from your stats? - Alex Gawley

@agawley good question :) - Kemal Hadimli

I think a lot of the increase is actually about the new beta interface - Waldemar Schott

As someone else suggested, can you redo the graph and remove the discussions about the beta for friendfeed - LPH™ and his dog P™

good improvement. - pastas9

Could this also be interpreted to mean the new interface makes us talk more to get the same point across, i.e. behave more like we're in a chat room, exchanging "hello's" and "bye's"? The giant Gillmor Gang thread on Monday was the first time on Friendfeed I felt like saying "bye" before "leaving" the room! - Philipp Lenssen

not for me philipp, for someone w/ limited time to check in on ff i find i'm missing conversations more w/ the beta so not engaging as much - not ff's fault more an issue of my personal use case though... - mike "glemak" dunn

mike, doesn't "best of day" still work the same? That's how I'm catching this conversation. - Bruce Lewis

sure bruce that gives a good view of most popular or active conversations but the beauty of expanding lists is you can organize based on themes so the list proper give you recent and active and then when expanded you can drill down through individuals who may be less active - those are the conversations I feel I'm missing - mike "glemak" dunn

FF needs some way to communicate 'comments' other than color, because the grey (?) color denoting second tier comments is too hard to read. Don't fight your colorblind users. The mere position of second-tier comments is enough to indicate that they are comments without blending them into the background by making the font color low-contrast with the white background. Put three American guys in a room and there is a 23% chance that one of them is going to not be able to read FF because of poor font color. - A Mitchell

yes, definite improvements - keep up the GREAT work!!! - Walter Yu

Paul: Do you have that same chart with a line for the number of entries created? - Ken Sheppardson

I've noticed the increase in comments to recent posts, but I still get little or no response to comments I make to content that is even just a few days old. Are there email notifications when a thread becomes re-active or is it now all about bumping threads back to the top of the content owners stream? - karl dotter