If one answers this question via FF, does it make the question redundant? Anyhoo ask Scoble. - thomasrdotorg from twhirl

Excellent piece, Sarah. I, too, have found my FF usage waning a bit in the last few weeks due to work schedules. I've simply been too busy to participate. But what hasn't waned is my regular checking-in. FriendFeed is without a doubt my news source now, long ago eclipsing Google Reader. I think the service has too firm of a hold on people to burn out but do think some upgrading is badly needed. A more sophisticated filtering system alone would do wonders for the service. And they need to up the social ante just a bit - allow for private messaging, for instance. It will be very interesting to watch how such a popular product evolves. Something tells me that FriendFeed in two years will be almost unrecognizable - if they play their cards right. - Carla Thompson from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Thanks for the link! When I first adopted FriendFeed it was easy to keep track of all the information being shared. When more and more people started to join the community I started to freak out. The question is... What can FriendFeed do (in terms of application design) to fix this problem? Hide functions are cool and all but something else needs to happen. - Kyle Lacy from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I stopped using Friendfeed for a while and have started to get back into it as I missed the discussions. Also, turning off notifications in Twhirl really helped. Now I just jump into the river when I'm ready. - Dion Hinchcliffe from twhirl

I think a lot of people getting tired is due to FriendFeed not releasing many new features lately. Did I hear somewhere that they were redoing their architecture, similar to what Twitter is doing? With lack of new features, we early adopters get bored easily. I'm curious what they've been working on though. - Jesse Stay from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I was going to say the exact same thing as Dion above me; Friendfeed became too overwhelming for a while there so I left and came back. Problem solved. - acedanger

voted. i love Friendfeed so much i incorporated it on my blog. i love Friendfeed like i love Flickr. i've been using it ever since along with Twitter, and Google Reader. they all fit together. but of course there are areas where Friendfeed could improve. my FF pet peeve is that i can't do a search on stuff i "liked" and "commented". i would also like to have a separate "description" field when adding stuff instead of treating is as just another comment. how about FF plugins? for example developers can write plugins that could filter FF data and user relationships. these plugins can then appear as extra tabs on the FF menu (like that "everyone" tab). however, in general i agree with Louis Gray. this talk of Friendfeed "fading" doesn't do justice to an awesome service. FF gave its users enough control on what information to hide and ignore. so this talk of information overload takes the user-responsibility out of the equation. we've got to take responsibility of our experiences people! :) ~C - ~C4Chaos from FriendFeed MT Plugin

You're going to have to consult a more credible source if you want to find the pulse of FriendFeed. For instance, if someone like Mona said she was getting sick of it...I might think it was passing it's prime. :) - Rahsheen ™ from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I don't see the basis for this article. Its very fluttery although I agree with @carla that it was a fun read. How at this time anyone could suppose that FF is past its peak is foolhearty. FF will evolve alot over the next 12 months and the noise I have to agree with Louis's comment on RWW that noise is due to lazy users not using the tools available and also probably some tweaking is needed which Scoble alluded to in the quote you took from Kyle Lacy's post. - Roger Kondrat

I'm waiting to see how it evolves, because right now, I don't see it solving the problem well (if at all). Also, I still think it's only something early adopters and very net-savy people will ever use. Surely FriendFeed isn't targeting only this segment of the population? - Rai

Sarah, you mention noise being one of the bigger issues and that was echoed today by both Steve Rubel & Robert Scoble in this thread http://bit.ly/239KZg where I chimed in. There are some great scripts & tools I mention that help curtail the problem, but these are band-aids and ultimately need to be fixed and addressed by FriendFeed. FriendFeed is a great service but they made a conscious decision to focus on the community and conversation with a reward system in the way of "likes & comments". This turns it into somewhat into a platform to gain recognition which isn't a bad thing, but creates an eco system of noise. FriendFeed doesn't offer a true Lifestream where people can simply view a reverse chronological stream of data without being altered by external behavior. The lack of that defacto standard from a Lifestreaming perspective may turn off those who aren't there for the conversation but intrigued by Lifestreaming. So even though FriendFeed may be the current leader the kinks in the armor show that - Mark Krynsky from FriendFeed MT Plugin