I'm seeing the same stories over in over (e.g. Story X shared in Google Reader by one contact, linked directly by another, and so on), spread into separated discussions. Just merging dupes seems not easily possible as everyone has different threads subscribed to depending on their selection of friends. It also makes you wonder on which of the many threads you want to add a comment if you want to share your view on Story X. - Philipp Lenssen

We're definitely thinking about the right way to handle this. - Paul Buchheit

Threading seems to be the most complex feature of this site, but it's being handled very well thus far. - Patrick Veverka

Umm …what threading? - John Lam

Well, in blogsphere, people use trackbacks to gather all comments together into the original post. Maybe it will also considerable to solve this overload duplicated content problem. - Yuancheng

The issue isn't duplication but seeing the pile-on as memetracking. Friendfeed should have a way to view based on this kind of convergence. If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know. - Stowe Boyd

"If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know." And then how can you comment on the meme/ story? Because you have potentially five different comment threads (which seemingly can't be easily merged either -- you can merge the story, of course, but these five threads are personal to you, others may have different combos). - Philipp Lenssen

Tabs? :) - ⓞnor

It's so tempting to want to repost this as "How will Friendfeed deal with duplicates?”, but I wouldn't do that. Nah. - Louis Gray

Heh. - Philipp Lenssen

Also, what about duplicates within my own feed... Lets say I find something good in google reader, share it, stumble it, digg it, twitter it, and a couple other new verb its... that seems like a more manageable thing to reduce to just one item (such as Nathan Dugg, Shared, Stumbled and whatevered "this story" instead of reporting it 6 times. - Nathan Manley

Philipp, Newsvine has a neat feature, mostly unused. It lets readers break comments out into specific groups and among friends, away from the main comment thread. …and yes, @e3r, it uses tabs to do it. @NathanManley, i agree wholeheartedly. - John Lam

@Nathan, John: Reduction++ for me. I see the same story reported over and over in my feed. It will probably have to be based on the URL of the story (rather than the Stumble page or the Digg page or whatever), but I think that's already available so it shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps in the case of multiple friends sharing the same link, condensing those would also be useful... - Voyagerfan5761

@Voyager... Yea, it seems that most of those services you should be able to get the URL of the originating story from...of course if friendfeed is scraping the info from the different sites it would almost have to wait to publish it to your feed to see where else you put it (and how long should it wait?). - Nathan Manley

@Nathan: I don't think it should wait. If you do something on another site with the same URL, it should just update the one story. So "Voyagerfan5761 Rated "Blah" on StumbleUpon" could become "Voyagerfan5761 Rated "Blah" on StumbleUpon and Dugg it on Digg". See where that's going? I'm sure Kevin, Paul, and the rest of the FF team would have a better way to do it, but... Yeah. - Voyagerfan5761