If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
FB is making all this hoopla recently just because they finally "opened" up to 3rd party apps, and they take away the rss feed to our status updates.
- Kevin Whalen
from email
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
For now this does not work at all. Let's hope, now that 'status' of pages can be synched with Twitter, that what used to funcntion will resume activity again.
- lelapin
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
I'm the french editor (and partially translator) of the french version. In case there is any trouble with the translation, do not hesitate to contact me.
Je pourrais aussi me présenter en français... Je suis le responsable de la correction de la version française de Friendfeed.com. Je suis ouvert à tout commentaire, toute suggestion que vous pourriez faire concernant la traduction VF
- Thierry Destinobles
Super! Je pense Thierry que nous allons souvent discuter! J'ai la ferme intention de faire de FriendFeed un point nevralgique de l'Internet francophone. Mais pour cela, j'ai une question préliminaire... Comment traduirait-on "FriendFeed" en français? Flux d'amis, le flux des amis? Autre?...
- Zackatoustra
il serait possible?ce serait bien!de dialoguer avec des anglophones,par ex,et d'avoir leurs textes en francais et moi j'crt en français,ce serait trés pratique
- helleux
1. Les liens Accueil (box "Amis") et "Flux personnel" (listes) devraient porter un nom similaire. En anglais, c'est "Home" et "Home feed", nettement plus consistent.
- Jérôme Flipo
2. Je traduirais "files" par "fichiers" dans "Ajouter : Photos - Files"
- Jérôme Flipo
3. Je changerais "Recherches enregistrées" par "Mes recherches" dans la boîte latérale. Ca rentre sur une ligne, c'est mieux!
- Jérôme Flipo
4. Je traduirais "Advanced search" par "Recherche avancée" à côté du bouton "Recherche".
- Jérôme Flipo
5. Je changerai pas mal de termes dans le menu "Email/MI". Certains ne sont pas clairs et tout ne rentre pas ("sauvegarder" suffirait pour le bouton).
- Jérôme Flipo
6. Tout en bas: je retirerais le "de" et ajouterai un accent au A dans "A propos de", je changerais aussi "Termes" pour "Conditions".
- Jérôme Flipo
7. Sous chaque entrée, il faut "commenter" et non "commentaire".
- Jérôme Flipo
8. "Dire que ça me plait" est biiieeen trop long. "J'aime", "aimé par", "Je n'aime plus" sont parfaits et sont déjà utilisés par Facebook - ça aide beaucoup pour les newbies.
- Jérôme Flipo
merci pour la liste de suggestions, je vais mettre tout ça dans les jours à venir...
- Thierry Destinobles
Thierry, Comment sont gérées les demandes de traduction, et plus généralement les demandes d'évolution de FriendFeed, toutes langues confondues? Peut-on voir l'état d'une demande, d'une question, etc... Comme sur getsatisfaction, par exemple? Pourrait-on envisager, par exemple, des fonctionnalités qui seraient "spécifiques" à(ou "personnalisées pour)une langue, une région du monde, etc...? Merci!
- Zackatoustra
from email
honnêtement je ne sais pas, à la base quand il y a des nouveautés sur le site en anglais, on organise un round de traductions pour les traducteurs engagés par friendfeed, puis on attend le feedback des utilisateurs pour corriger des choses qui ne vont pas. Après ça il faut attendre quelques jours le temps que les modifications soient tenues en compte. par contre je n'ai pas entendu de...
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- Thierry Destinobles
from email
Ok! C'est cool d'avoir des nouvelles de "derrière le rideau", même si cela ne viole aucun secret, bien sûr.
- Zackatoustra
oui, mi=messagerie instantanée... je suis traducteur, pas développeur web. du coup je comprends pas bien la solution que tu/vous proposes/proposez. tout ce que je sais, c'est que je ne peux pas ajouter de balises qui ne sont pas dans le texte original.
- Thierry Destinobles
from email
Autre chose, Thierry: je n'aime pas lire mon nom à côté de chacun de mes commentaires. En version anglais, c'est changé par: You (edit ⎢ delete). Avec ça, j'aurais moins honte de mes contributions :)
- Jérôme Flipo
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Sounds awesome btw! "The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform."
- Paul Buchheit
This sounds very, very interesting. Shame we have to wait till fall to hear more details. :)
- Sean Brady
Timing matters a lot Sanat. 10 years ago the tech and users weren't ready for this, but we're just about there now, especially with tech such as NaCl.
- Paul Buchheit
I agree with Paul. I think that people are ready for this. I am wondering however if there will be some confusion regarding Android versus Google Chrome OS.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin: I was confused till now about Android usage in netbooks but this announcement actually clears that up.
- Kiran Patchigolla
Paul, your guess on timing is probably right. The story broke, so they hit publish. Note the last paragraph says to wait until fall and to have a nice summer. This is a very interesting development indeed.
- Louis Gray
How will this differ from just being a special Linux distro?
- Gabe
Gabe, in the same way that Android differs from a special Linux distro :). They both use Linux as a device driver layer, but have built up a whole new application layer.
- Paul Buchheit
Gabe: from the blog post, they are writing a new window manager (and presumably getting rid of X since it is so slow and resource intensive). And I also presume working on startup time and power consumption will involve some deeper changes to the OS than most Linux distributions.
- Bret Taylor
Right on. Just like Apple did with Mac OS X.
- Sam Grover
Bright move for an excellent project. V8 is so slick, I wished for it to be utilized in a broader domain than "just" within the confines of a browser. Stripping out all kinds of unnecessary OS components, building a layer of native windowing on top. Very excited.
- Mustafa K. Isik
a new windows system is interesting - Google just open sourced a custom NX server (http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009...) so I wonder if that's related. I think overloading the Chrome name is a mistake, though - look how that worked for Sun with Java (remember the Java Desktop System - which was a Linux distribution and JavaFX?)
- Nick Lothian
Won't people get annoyed when Flash doesn't work, or QuickTime movies won't play, or something like that?
- Gabe
How soon will Chrome have enough market share for Google to push major new browser features? There are lots of ways to imagine a browser, but we're all still using more or less the same one.
- Zak Stone
I'm so excited. I wonder when we can get our hands on the real stuff.
- Sung W. Lim
Gabe: I think a lot of the work that is going into HTML5 is to mitigate those issues.
- Mark Trapp
from iPhone
Mark: Are you suggesting that people will write their apps in HTML5 (along with or instead of Flash), or that somebody is going to make a usable implementation of Flash in HTML5?
- Gabe
Gabe: The former. HTML5 includes built-in video and audio support, and includes Canvas, which will in large part act as a replacement for most use-cases of Flash. Some parts of it are already out there, but it'll still be a couple of years, I think, before it's ubiquitous. Maybe Google will get Apple and Microsoft to port their stuff to Linux (like Paul says, Flash is already in the works for Android) so it'll work on Chrome OS, but it seems more likely they're banking on HTML5's success.
- Mark Trapp
from iPhone
A new windowing system just to run Chrome? Sounds a bit overkill to me. It feels like their "broad vision" is ignoring some important offline user behavior that can't easily be addressed with Gears. Soon they will probably need a file manager, a desktop, proper windowing, reserved areas on the screen to display "things" about what's happening and some more. Yeah, voila, what I just described is a fully-fledged Linux desktop, something Ubuntu-like. I hope they're not reinventing the old wheel.
- Enver ALTIN
What's going to happen when somebody needs to print a boarding pass or tax form?
- Gabe
Hopefully it will have some kind of printer support. Printers have to be the most backwards, broken part of the PC world though. Even on osx and windows, they never quite work, and sharing is nearly impossible.
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul .. good luck with that :) But we don't need printers, right? Everything can be done on the web.
- Tim Hoeck
Enver: except that Ubuntu takes forever to start up and X and all common desktop environments (Gnome, KDE) are slow as heck. I hope they reinvent a few wheels, if those are the wheels I have to choose from.
- Bret Taylor
Google and Microsoft getting more and more alike.
- Rutger Blom
Will Google take a cut from the devs for apps written for Google Chrome OS?
- τorƍue
Rutger: They are in the same space but not alike. i cannot imagine windows being open sourced
- Kiran Patchigolla
τorƍue, nope.. but you'll have to look at ads in your OS. :)
- Tim Hoeck
Kiran: I can actually see Microsoft releasing an open source OS if that generates money for them. I just meant Google, by first releasing a browser and now an OS, is starting to look more like Microsoft in my eyes. They just apply a different license to their source code and "do no evil" right?
- Rutger Blom
Finally, maybe it'll force IE to become standards-compliant. I'm sick of this ..oh yeah, now I have to make it work on IE (6,7,8).. this is such a clean concept (that we all knew was coming)!!
- Chris Myles
Did you notice that few weeks ago, Google announced that they were integrating NaCl into Chromium: "we have a strong preference for delivering Native Client pre-installed or built into the browser, and we'll be focusing on that as our main strategy for delivering Native Client to users. Careful readers may have already noticed evidence of integration into Chromium...
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- Jérôme Flipo
Bret, sluggishness is a feature of today's Linux desktop, I agree -- but determining to reinvent instead of giving a few hands to fix the problem? Just to host a browser? It doesn't seem like a good move to me.
- Enver ALTIN
I hope the good old classical *nix utilities will be available in this grand new OS, specifically vim+git? I'm just going so well with Linux.
- Juvenn Woo
I think they should have kept it a secret until they had more code. Also, history is littered with attempts to do this. Remember NetPC? Remember JavaPC/JavaOS? Remember Netscape's Javascript Push Desktop? Maybe the web is mature enough that people are ready for this concept now, atleast on mobile devices like the Pre and NetBooks, but there's a still a lot of people who like to run...
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- Ray Cromwell
ChromeOS is custom GUI for web apps running on a linux kernel, right? So how exactly is this different from Palm's WebOS which is a linux kernel running a custom version of webkit.
- Greg Morgan
Greg, it's probably conceptually similar, except that ChromeOS will be designed for netbooks instead of cellphones (which obviously have different ui constraints).
- Paul Buchheit
Isn't a huge difference compared to WebOS (which allows some API calls to the hardware) that the apps developed for Chrome OS are limited to the webbrowser sandbox? In the blog post Google says "And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform." Unless they try the Microsoft Active X approach to get around that, which sounds like a pretty bad idea to me.
- Daniel Chow
Will this mean I get adsense on my desktop? ;-) No but srsly I am amazed to see that this interesting project wasn't started by a team that has just left Google.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
@Ray Cromwell, you're right, they should have kept their cool, and let the NYT publish what it wants without explicit corroboration. It's MSFT that's the master of premature announcements, aka vaporware, not Google. As it is now, the assorted self-styled tech punditry of the world will have half the summer and fall to speculate, when they could have been caught largely unawares with a simple faït accomplí.
- ianf ⌘
@patrick "This sounds like it would be perfect for Arringtons CrunchPad" and @Matt Cutts: "that would be pretty neat, wouldn't it?" - possibly, only Arrington needs the OS by last friday, not "in second half of 2010," when first "Chrome'd" hardware is supposed to arrive. On a personal note, I'd probably be more enthusiastic had they managed to bring out a stable Chrome browser for OSX, not solely the old Windoze… first things first.
- ianf ⌘
@ianf: Like your "rock dots" in fàït accômplí :)
- Joel Webber
I hope standart Linux tools will be available :-) Vim, ssh should be there!
- Eren Türkay
Someone said "I hope they're not reinventing the wheel" -- I hate to break it to you, but that is what Google does best: reinvent. Search Engines, webmail, jabber, web browsers, linux for phones, email ... all of them had already been invented once ;-)
- Joel Bennett
If we never reinvented the wheel, we'd still be using tree trunks to roll things on.
- Rich
a great opportunity for linux, IMHO. And anyway, another player in the field of OS, which is good ;-)
- Marco Castellani
I hope Chrome OS will bring real innovations to Linux (which is already innovative). Not only Google's logo!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
Oh, yeas? And what epochal software, pray, has the Bible brought forth? I can only think of the virus of religion itself, but that's hardly a cause to celebrate [spoken as true atheist].
- ianf ⌘
What is the deal with synonyms in Drupal? I add them to vocabulary terms, but that does not seem to effect the search. So why is there a place to put them in? How do you leverage them?
Synonyms are meant to define other terms that relate to the parent term, like a thesaurus. Core does not use them, but contributed modules make use of them. For your specific use case (exposing them to search), try the Synonyms module: http://drupal.org/project...
- Mark Trapp
Thanks, Mark, we'll look into this.
- Laura Norvig
Un très bon article qui décrit bien ce que sera et ce que pourra faire Google Wave, la prochaine killer app de Google : une plateforme centralisée unifiant de multiples protocoles (e-mail, IM, SMS, réseaux sociaux...) et services sous une même interface. Prometteur !
- Brome
Google a tout compris : ils développent directement leurs applis pour la génération Y.
- Brome
from email
Ils veulent surtout faire la nique à Twitter, FF, facebook et consorts...
- DAL
from IM
Pas forcément puisque Twitter et consorts seront à terme intégrables dans Wave, l'API étant publique. Faut voir, bien sûr, mais ça peut avoir un potentiel énorme.
- Brome
Comme le dit ce post ( http://ff.im/3mCes ) : Google don't compete, they assimilate.
- Brome
En tout cas avec ça ils continuent de se mettre les geeks dans la poche! ;)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Juste retour des choses : depuis Android, c'était les geeks qui mettaient Google dans leur poche. ;)
- Brome
Ah hélas toujours sur un vieux samsung de merde... Mais j'envisage très sérieusement le Gphone, enfin quand il y en aura un digne de ce nom chez bouygues :(
- Stanislas Jourdan
Je pense que, comme c'est google, ça a des chances de devenir populaire. Je ne sais pas dans votre cas, mais les googles docs par exemple (service pas mal geek quand même) font du chemin parmi les étudiants parce qu'ils ont déjà une adresse gmail, donc c'est simple, pas besoin de s'inscrire. Espérons que ce soit la même chose avec wave, parce que si nos proches s'inscrivent pas, ce n'est pas intéressant.
- tristan
Tristan, moi je n'utilise pas Gdocs parce que j'ai un compte google (même si c'est très pratique) mais avant tout pour les fonctions de partage et pour ne plus avoir besoin de clé usb :)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Oui bien sûr, moi aussi, je l'utilise pour ça. Mais si il y avait besoin de se connecter un nouveau service, les gens non geek (le fait que vous utilisiez friendfeed prouvent que vous êtes web enthusiast) ne l'utiliseraient pas du tout. Bref, c'était pour expliquer pourquoi j'étais enthousiaste à propos de wave.
- tristan
Je suis d'accord avec Tristan, le fait de disposer déjà d'un compte Google est un point non négligeable. C'est pour cette raison que j'utilise Google Docs au lieu de Zoho, par exemple. En fait il y a deux raisons pour lesquelles je suis enthousiaste à propos de Wave. D'abord parce que Google fait rarement des flops (il y a eu Orkut ou Google Video, mais c'est rare) lorsqu'il s'agit...
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- Brome
Je suis bien d'accord avec toi. Je pense d'une manière générale que si on aime FF, on aimera forcement Wave. Wave est révolutionnaire (ou le semble) mais quand on y regarde de près, c'est finalement dans la droite continuité de ce qui se faite à droite et à gauche sur internet, et notamment gmail qui petit à petit a effacé la notion d'email au profits de celle de conversation (suivi différent des mails + chat + audio/vidéo + intégration des docs etc...). Bref, à mon avis, Google a tout compris :)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Steve, I love that I made a cameo in your post. I only wish my short URL was more inspired.
- Scott Gatz
Finally! Yay! Wish Twitter had this a long time ago. That's the reason I never use full links that get converted. I change the www. to w3 .website.com and that way everyone can see the full link still and copy and paste it if they want to view the site. I got annoyed at clicking on duplicate TinyURLs.
- Adam
I use the greasemonkey script tinyurl-ru at http://kapranoff.ru/friendf... but it only covers tinyurl.com and tinyurl.ru | Maybe we should do a community project that keeps updating that script with all those url-shorteners out there. | Alex, are you game?
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
Is this a feature that friendfeed removed? Because it's not working in Chrome.
- James Poling
I don't see any short URL's in FriendFeed anymore. all are automatically expanded.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
"As you all know I have been using Linux for a long, long time. I have installed countless distributions: Some of them have seen long-term use, while some of them have been nothing more than a flash in the pan. Ubuntu is one of those that has come and gone for me. I have used it on many occasions, been generally impressed with its offerings, but ultimately gone back to another distribution for one reason or another. I have seen, over the last few Ubuntu releases, a serious decline in performance. Starting somewhere around 7.04, each successive release grew progressively more and more sluggish. From boot times to application start up times, Ubuntu seemed to be coming to a slow painful crawl. With 9.04 Ubuntu has made a complete turnaround."
- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet
Cool, but will I finally get sound on my laptop?
- Adrian
I completly agree: ubuntu 7 was really fast, 8 was a bit slower but still enought for me. I updated to 9 because I read it was faster in some aspects, but is not true. Perhaps it's only the intel video card issue but if they don't fix it in short I'll go back to 8. BTW, which distribution have you switch to?. Un saludo!
- jmiguel rodriguez
yeah 9.04 is a whole new variation of previous versions. I use it as my primary O/s though of course it is not without it's problems but it has certainly improved.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
9.04 is 8.10 with new wallpaper and faster boot. What people want: most addon hardware still don't work. This should have been labeled 8.11. Most defectors I see, and that is most who try it, defect because a webcam, a USB device still doesn't work on it. 9.04 did nothing to fix those problems. Is faster boot a real issue for serious users? You're joking. PC Mag agrees: http://tinyurl.com/c73o4l
- Bob
@freemor: thank you, I tried it and looks faster, but it freezes (mouse works) after 10 minutes or so, so I went back to original config. I'll keep on Jaunty waiting for a new driver. @bob: I upgraded to v9 because that was just what I expect, but in fact I've got a slower system (not to talk about amarok 2.0 sh!t)
- jmiguel rodriguez
@jmiguel: I've seen a lot of comments about it. Most people recommend going back to Amarok 1.4 http://ff.im/2sBxp
- Alejandro
@Alejandro: I've already done it. Most of my mp3 collection (those strange things not in spotify :-)) didn't play with amarok 2.0. Cannot understard this ubuntu movement...
- jmiguel rodriguez
Amarok is independent of Ubuntu. btw, because of the Open Source movement, you can choose among several free applications that provide the same functionality. I personally don't use Amarok, I prefer Rhythmbox.
- Alejandro
Never used it, I'll give a try. I've been using amarok for long. I did the comment about ubuntu because looks like they have prefer to release at time instead of waiting for something more stable.
- jmiguel rodriguez
8.10 was fine and 9.04 is a bit better. I have an intel card on an HP DV2000 series. Upgraded to the new Uxa thingy and it's quite stable. I use this computer with Ubuntu all the time these days. My main current gripe is not having found a good equivalent for Windows movie-maker. Now trying to fathom Cinelerra.
- howard shippin
I totally agree with this… because of open-source CMS' Dreamweaver is more easily replaced by apps like Coda. Against them Dreamweaver feels very much overpriced and overweight.
- Akeem Williams
You are right about it being overweight, it feels really clunky to use and by default generates some frightful HTML.
- Andrew Roche
Although Drupal's default theme isn't the best either ;) Maybe Zen should be the default.
- Andrew Roche
I think a lot of web designers would get a rude wake-up call if they transitioned from Dreamweaver to Drupal. To create a custom theme in Drupal does require lines of code: there is no WYSIWYG interface that hides CSS, HTML, and PHP code snippets. I think it's time to see a transition from web designers doing everything (including implementation) to just sticking to design and letting web developers implement.
- Mark Trapp
What I've personally seen as a result of Drupal is the rise of people (called Themers in the Drupal community) that sit somewhere between web designers and full-blown developers.
- Akeem Williams
Dreamweaver has been dead for a long time dude. :-)
- Josh Katinger
It goes back a hell of a lot further than it used to. I remember when 130 and 230 were the limits. Now we're at 630. The trend seems to be in our favour.
- Mitch
i noticed this trend, i hope the archive is their goal
- slsrx
We don't delete anything - purely technical issues. We will provide deeper paging. Our launch last week has improved our paging abilities, and we expect to make them more flexible in the near term future.
- Bret Taylor
thanks, bret. movement from deeper paging to accessibility of "my everything" through FrF is what i actually meant
- slsrx
Bret - By flexible do you mean imitating Twitter's strategy of disabling certain features to make the core service more stable when required?
- Mitch
I feedburn my friendfeed feed and subscribe by mail. I don't have a way to capture comments that way though.
- Antonio Piccolboni
Antonio - You can subscribe to comment feed, too, if that's what you're looking for.
- Mitch
Happy to hear that FF does not delete anything. The lack of deeper/unlimited paging is one of the primary reasons I have not utilized FF as much as I would like too. Can't wait for these technical issues to be resolved.
- Derek Lerner
I hate it. I love it! I haven't even scrolled down to the bottom yet. Hold on.......ok, it's good. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
Cheers Bret & team - it's feeling pretty good so far (which includes initial gut reaction)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Nice job. I can at the very least say it is a big improvement aesthetically. I haven't finished checking everything out yet, but so far so good.
- Rolf Schewe
I miss the ability to have a Firefox sidebar setup that just had my list of items scrolling past and nothing else along the side like this view: http://friendfeed.com/realtim...
- Justin Yost
Reshare will be back. Just an artifact of beta-testing, didn't make it in for this morning
- Bret Taylor
Definitely not looking for attention here, but I just don't like it.
- Nick
This real time integrated updates is pretty kick butt. Especially for comments.
- Gersham Meharg
Our settings vary to prevent things shuffling around excessively. We bubble up when someone you are subscribed to comments.
- Bret Taylor
I like the updating comments, but when it shifts what I'm reading out of the frame it's a little distracting. Overall, great work!
- Derek Coatney
also wish i can add links/pics/embed in the "comments"...for example, i'd like to include an image of my email from http://www.emailcover.com, but it only shows up as a link
- brainno722 (Peter)
Can you open an existing conversation in a new window?
- Barak B
1st look is good, like the real time...didn't make it to the bottom the first few minutes. Also the comment box drops down as I am commenting now...message got off screen ;)
- Sanne Buurma
please add keyboard shortcut for play/pause feed
- Ouriel Ohayon
Please, remove the gray background. Any color, but not gray.
- bnoise
Agree with Andy, dislike the fugly grey
- Sally Church
Barak: click on the timestamp to open a conversation in a new window.
- Kevin Mohr
Barack B : you can click the time and select open in new window.
- Simon Wicks
Just bring back the filters to the main feed. Other than that, it looks awesome :D
- Gerardo Curiel
Grey or not, rather think about what the beta has to offer in functionality
- Sanne Buurma
Please, bring back service icons near each post — it's very hard to scan information flow without them. Also hope you'll do something with new subscription module — it's unuseful while managing a lot of imaginary friends.
- Juras Vetrau
Wait, is the frequent shifting up and down of items I'm reading (i.e. the items in view) really supposed to work out well? I suppose you guys tried it for a while and you just got used to it?
- j1m
Peter, yep but thankfully the Cleaner FriendFeed GM script still works in Chrome and FFox, which does this for you.
- Kol Tregaskes
Don't like: broke my Blocks list, Block not available from Hover Menu
- Will Higgins™
Why Will Higgins have a superscript of "TM"? how typed in?
- Tony
it keeps the bad low-contrast grey on white text for comments that deters me from reading it. You made the main text bigger, now make the comment text black.
- Kevin Marks
Will: block will be back, just missing today, but it is not something we are removing (just something we didn't get in for this morning)
- Bret Taylor
I think you guys should really embrace the idea of hashtags. Let us add them to other people's posts, having various services auto-tag imported items, let us search on them using filters. Tagging is one great way for us to get a handle on the volume of information here.
- Kevin Kuphal
What's with the orange and the green on the side? Its a bit ugly if you ask me. Also, is there a way to change this, as well as make the beta permanent? (I like living on the cutting edge).
- darnell
I too like the orange and green. It's the blue I'm not sure about. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
Yeah, but it clashes with the logo. Either Friendfeed needs to change their logo, or get rid of the colors. Or (even better) allow users to change the colors. :-)
- darnell
Looks horrible to me, I think we should have a customizable interface more like iGoogle, I like the idea though, just more customization, like sidebar customization, friend lists, realtime widget, chat widget, all movable and arrangeable, there sure is enough space etc...
- Kyle Weller
I'm with Kyle and Darnell - I like being able to customize my GMail colours, and having that feature on FF would be cool
- nouhad
Sorry, I don't like it. Real-time makes me nauseous still and the design is terrible.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Yes, bring back service icons, somewhere. Also, the bigger font in entries doesn't look good.
- bnoise
Ignoring 71 previous comments... I really like the new design! One request: allow the pause button to follow my cursor as a scroll down the page!
- Chris Messina
Add a floating "COMMENT" feature at the bottom of each thread, so I don't have to scroll up to click "comment"... this is a weird experience in new beta UI
- Susan Beebe
@Ari: This is why I really think tagging is what they need to focus on. If we could each add #ffbeta or something to our own posts as well as others, you get the trending and other features that twitter already has. Combine this with filters and you really get some killer information management features.
- Kevin Kuphal
I really like having one UI instead of different modes (normal, realtime, miniwindow), but to support the old "mini window" experience, perhaps allow the right hand side bar with filters and subscriptions to be collapsible?
- Karl Rosaen
@Karl: API is key here. Twitter isn't massively popular because their website rocks. Twitter is massively popular because there's a massive layer of applications built on top of it. Build that for FF and you have the same potential growth
- Kevin Kuphal
I wish it could use more of the screen real estate of my monitor, given my normal window size, it has large amounts of unused space on either size of the content due to the fixed layout. Maybe a multi-column mode?
- Ray Cromwell
@Krishnamoorthy rooms I believe have changed to feeds beta.friendfeed.com/[room_name]
- Lou Paglia
the new design works better for me. I am sure there will be glitches, but so far so good.
- Sharon Hurley Hall
Is there a way to change my prefs over to to the beta so I don't have to keep entering beta.friendfeed...?
- Ryan Stanley
UI suggestion: there's a link to expand all comments, there should be one to collapse them as wel.
- Ryan Stanley
UI suggestion: after expanding comments you scroll all the way to the bottom reading the thread, then you have scroll all the way back up to click the Comment link. Why not have it at the bottom of the thread too.
- Ryan Stanley
Feature suggestion: FF needs a built-in way of referring to people publicly, just like Twitter's @. Perhaps use the same convention. But there needs to be a way people to address each other in public threads, so a user can make sure to be informed when people are talking or referring to them.
- Ryan Stanley
going to read through faq - roadmap of what made beta & what's going away would be nice - big concern for me is the lose of ability to expand lists to see individual participants - i find that one of ff's strongest features - that and block but i see from earlier in this thread that its will make it in later in beta (whew)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
A Pause button that follows you on page scroll could be more distracting than it's worth. But how about something like it appears upon a white space mousedown/mouseup event.
- Micah Wittman
Hmm, I tried to read this thread, but I never got to the bottom, because the unexpected shifts of the text just became too much after a while. Fundamentally, if the page keeps shifting up and down unexpectedly, it's hard to see how anyone's ever going to read it -- hence the many requests for a floating pause button, which would help. You could also imagine pause on hover. Being able to read down the page without having the text disappear seems to me like the #1 use case of ff.
- j1m
Of course, it's not really like you want Pause -- the real-time updates are great when they're below wherever the eyes are :-)
- j1m
I love the new UI! I'm a big fan. It feels a lot cleaner and more organized. The real-timeness doesn't bother me. It seems pretty clever about when and when not to refresh. Great job, guys!!! : )
- Jess Lee
Bret - Great job! There are certainly things to clean up before this interface goes to the main page. Rooms should REALLY be on the subscribed list on the right hand column. I would LOVE to be able to put Blank Lines in comments. I don't care if they count for a whole lines worth of characters (as opposed to a more common one character for the cr/lf) Blank lines make comments more legible and clear than just a runtogether paragraph.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I don't like how the interface STILL loses my place if I subscribe to someone while posting a comment (or even reading it!) I should be able to subscribe to YOU while I read YOU and not lose my page place. The Page should need to be refreshed to reset everyone because of the new subscription.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I don't know about the queued items, I like the real time feed, having selectable speeds instead of "over-caffination required mode" would be good. Most discussions this is irrelevant, but the discussion on tis new beta this morning (i.e. on scoble's feed) showed how insane that can be.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The real-time-only feed in the beta is causing Safari 4b on my MacBook use up a lot of CPU cycles, hence depleting the battery faster. I'm sure FF3 will too. Please consider an "ECO Mode" similar to the current standard mode, which only refreshes once every few minutes, for those running their machines on battery power. Without such an eco-mode, and with the rapid-fire pace of live updates, I fear that I won't be using FFeed much at all. Certainly not leaving that tab open for hours on end like I used to.
- Siddharth Deb
I don't know if I've done something, or you guys did, but when I look here, I only have a few services setup in the account, when I go to the old interface I have a LOT more -I'm not certain that everything is feeding through? (i.e. I have Digg and Disqus set up, I see the correct list of icons on the old interface, but on the beta "settings" popup, No Dice. Even if this is irrelevant to the actual data flow, please fix this to make me sleep well at night. ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
One more thing - Could we have a character counter in the comments? It would be REALLY nice, if my account is setup to post this comment to my twitter account, and it's going to post the link to this discussion, please Add the number of characters in the link (plus a space) to the total character count. That way I won't be truncating the comment and/or the URL when it gets to twitter.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Another thing: I used to be able to click the "More" next to a single discussion, and "Link to this discussion" Where is that? If this is an outmoded way of thinking please let me know. Otherwise, um...can we have that feature back?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: the timestamp ("9 hours ago") is the permalink
- Benjamin Golub
do you need a techno dunce to help the average joe make sense of this?? haha...i love it...
- Lauren Shanahan
Very twitter like. But better due to nice conversational.
- xiawinter
I actually kinda like the grey... though it does look like it's an opportunity to let companies brand the background in some way.
- Frankie Warren
For cc to Twitter functionality, can the number of characters be a count-down instead of a count-up?
- Winston Teo
I'd like to second the notion that there should be a way to address an individual within a thread...the agreed upon "Rob:" works great, but maybe could be clickable so that there's no confusion as to which Rob or which Scoble you're talking to ;) (i.e. maybe a CTRL-Click or something on the person's name after their comment to start a new comment with their name at the beginning? )
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The grey background looks kinda dullish, and it looks like someone ran out of ideas for colours..
- Winston Teo
IMO avatars occupy way too much real estate now, I liked the smaller ones better.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
thsi is nothing on the new design, but after being on here all night with no attention to a down twitter, I am reminded of this: It would be nice if I could set the post to twitter for comments and likes a) permanent b) off or C) on a per comment/like basis -twitter users say this "yeah, when ppl I follow flood me with FF spam ... I usually unfollow ... even block if it irritates me enough." And I would like to be able to be easily selective of what gets put through, and it would get more GOOD attn for FF
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
please, for the love of god, move the "comment" link to the BOTTOM of the list of comments. seriously, am I the only one who can't believe this hasn't been fixed for so long?
- Dossy Shiobara
Great stuff! :-) FriendFeed does it better than Facebook. Please go real-time all the way for subscription requests and confirmatoions too.
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
It's not bad, but I prefer the smoothness of the old one to the lines and edges in this new one.
- scott willeke
I love the new letter-counting post widget in the beta though.
- scott willeke
at first glance, find it much more readable than the old one. Pity there still isn't "my items that were liked or commented by others"
- Stephanie Booth
from twhirl
Stephanie: comments:1 likes:1 from:sbooth
- Justin Long
stephanie & justin - that is in the catch all http://beta.friendfeed.com/filter... - i went and liked/commented on something from each of you that had no other activity - you should both see that bubble up in /discussions...
- mike "glemak" dunn
LOVE THE NEW BETA ! the new filter is so powerful, more powerful if you could add "language parameter"!!
- foxmachia {山石}
still waiting for direct-to-room links on the right column, is it planned? (with lastupdated timestamps if possible)
- Kemal Hadimli
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