We just launched an update to http://beta.friendfeed.com/ that brings back "Reshare" and also makes the perma-link more obvious. The links appear when your mouseover an entry. Let us know what you think.
There's a bit of a pause in Safari 4 Beta (Webkit) but other than that, it's great.
- Akiva
The pause (about 100ms) is intentional so that they don't appear when the mouse is just passing over an entry on the way to get somewhere else.
- Paul Buchheit
amazing! You folks are an example of how internet solutions should be done...Quickly, cooperatively and in real-time
- Tweet Feeds
Wouldn't mind seeing the hover links appear underneath the user icon rather than on the opposite side of the column.
- Akiva
Glad it's back. Think it ought to be grouped with the others, or at least everything in the same place. I didn't think the old implementation was lacking much. Maybe something in between?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
And the bookmarklet has been upgraded so you can share to multiple places! I'm super happy about that. Not so sure about the link placement on the entries, though. I sort of like the contextual visibility, but I think I like it from a "that's cool-looking!" perspective rather than a usability one. Not sure I would've noticed them without your post.
- Jandy
Damnit, it has not. If I hit the bookmarklet while on FriendFeed, it shows the reshare box, with the ability to share to multiple places. But if I'm on some other site and hit it, it shows the old one. WUWT?
- Jandy
Jandy, I don't see a new bookmarklet at all.
- Akiva
The new bookmarklet hasn't launched yet, but it's being use for reshare, which is why you may see it on beta.friendfeed.com (but nowhere else).
- Paul Buchheit
I would like it if 'hide' ended up back with the other buttons. I use it all the time and I don't want to have to target twice with the pointer (once to bring up the bar and once to hit the link), but link and reshare are much less common operations, so for me it's ok for them to be less accessible.
- Robin Barooah
If you want to use the new bookmarklet, open the properties of the link on your browser and change the url from friendfeed.com to beta.friendfeed.com
- Glenn Slaven
Glenn, thanks for the tip. I didn't think of that.
- Jandy
I do remember that folks never looked under "More" for stuff, but I'm not a fan of having the per-entry actions in two different places :-/. Also, with everything else real time, the delay before the links appear seems sorta disconnected.
- Ken Sheppardson
I am also finding that when I am aiming for a link within the entry itself that's over to the right hand side, the tools are popping up and distracting me as I try to target.
- Robin Barooah
Thanks for your work! Though now (with delay) it takes a bit more time to scan through the page and hide entries that deserve hiding. You know, sometimes I instantly see that I'll hide this, and delay just slows it down... though giving me time to rethink. =) Just to points: 1. 'Link' on the post page is unnecessary? (linking to itself); 2. maybe it's unnecessary at all? I was happy with timestamps... =)
- Anton
Messing around with this, noticeable change in my behavior already based on cursor location; I either hide everything or I comment. I'm on a 10" screen and I don't want to move from Hide all the way to Comment or vice versa. One thing's for certain, there's no way I'd use FF on my 17" laptop for an extended (more than 5 min) amount of time.
- Anika
Post management on the right, post interaction under title, works for me...
- Johnny
Even more so than I'm stoked on the upgrades (keep 'em coming though) - I'm stoked on the way you guys are running your shop here. I like the attentiveness to users, I like the personal responses to bug reports. I like the advance notice of downtime. And I like the environment and communication that that kind of treatment promotes. The Friends that feed me here are great because of that. Thanks! more more more ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nice, but the bottom padding of, let's see, .toplinks extends down to far and can cover links.
- Maxwell Terry
Rob, I so agree. Whoever heard of a developer coming off the mountain and socializing with the folks - and actually telling us about features and how they work? I absolutely love it - Paul, you remind me a little bit of the owner of a very good restaurant, circulating among the tables and making sure everyone's having a great time.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
ah thank you!!-though i would never have known it was there if you didn't mention i had to hover over the link ( I saw an earlier post mentioning this feature and I was like "huh? where?" :)
- Kelly W.
And I really like the fact that you put Link up there as well. Of course that may have been up there a bit, but still it makes things easier.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
why can't i reshare the conversation to someone who don't use the FF?
- tianhou
It's less clutter, thanks! It could be nice for these three actions to appear next to the mouse, maybe?
- Count Caturday
hmm, let's try on tablet again -- people say FriendFeed in beta is much quicker on Nokia Internet Tablets than current (presumably bloated with JS) FrF
- A. T.
hmmm on N810 it has weird feeling while refresh is done...
- A. T.
Very happy to have reshare back; don't like the position (too far from other controls), don't like the mouseover (distracting, especially with the delay, and seems to interfere with other links if they extend out that far). Please just bring back "more"!
- Bill Hooker
I like new position of Hide (I use hide as "mark it read")
- romanzolotarev
Paul, wud be great & really easy if Mail Invitations link had option for importing & selecting email contacts...rather than typing/copy-paste. Any plans for this?
- Roshan Ramachandran
Please, bring "hide" link back to main controls area. It's very unuseful in a new position: 1) too far from main mouse route; 2) opens with a delay. It makes filtering process a pain when one of the most used links is put away. Filtering is one of FriendFeed's killer-features and one of it's core functions.
- Yury Vetrov
cool... but with touchscreen device I can't perform the mouseover action.
- Francesco M.
Paul, thank you for adding the reshare but it's just like the old UI. Is there no way posts could be shared properly, i.e. synced likes and comments? It would be ideal to just open the post up to new feeds not create new posts with new comments, etc. It would help with cutting down duplication.
- Kol Tregaskes
I agree with Kol. Would be great as an option to reshare with the original likes and comments.
- Jesper Lind
Also the Reshare link should be next to the Comment, Like and Hide links, this is where all "action" links are and makes sense to put them to together not dotted around in different places.
- Kol Tregaskes
And I appreciate the "Link" link might make things clearer to some but it's pretty easy to grab the link from the timestamp so we have 2 links on the post doing the same thing. I think all you really need to do it make the timestamp look like a link, i.e. change the text blue like other links.
- Kol Tregaskes
I hate it: hide should go back to its place, near "like", since clicking it where it is... is hard and unintuitive.
- Marcos Marado
Should it be Link - Hide - Reshare instead of the current order?
- Ninh Nguyen
I don't like how the background obscures content if the item was posted to multiple feeds that span the entire top line. How about making them appear next to the existing Comment - Like links instead?
- Tony Ruscoe