hey friendfeed, can you check out the "best of day, best of week, best of month" settings? I know that my subscribers "like" and comment on things, but these actions do not "kick" that content into the "best of" pages, OR, if it does, they only stay there for a little while before decaying. As it is, new/1/7/30 all look the same. thanks!
I'd like to have a widget by room. And why note to choose to include the messages rooms automatically in a general widget (optional in the room's settings).
Great idea I would like to see this, also I am intrigued to see how the API will incorporate this. AlertThingy and Twhirl will need to be tweaked!
- Joe Dawson
Would be very grateful for this feature, want to add FT Techfeed room to our blog (many thanks for the services feature just added)
- FT Update
Permission to bump this? It's been two months and rooms are still trapped in Friendfeed without an embed
- Chris Nuttall
I would like this as well... It's July and I don't see the capability to do it...
- Justin Long
Did we get this feature? Really would love this!
- Sumit Chachra
I really want Friendfeed to let me embed a room for an event. Also pull in flickr groups, video groups (youtube & qik), etc. Any ideas on embedding a room?
I haven't tried to embed a room so there may be an easier option. Although the only option I think would be work off the top of my head would be to iframe the page.
- Nicholas James
Yeah, I'd like it too. And to underscore the usefulness of such a feature I created this room with the deliberate intent of deleting it as soon as "delete room" becomes available. http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Dominic Jones
Note: When going to add/edit services for a room, the list of connected services does not appear like in the home feed.
- Rob Spectre
So when you're in the room's "Add/Edit services" page, can you click on any of the "Active Services" to the right? If so, that's where you'd choose to remove the feeds in question.
- Mitch
Sure you can. If you're the room's moderator, just open up the list you'd like to import and grab the RSS link from the very bottom of the page where it says "Other ways to read this." Then paste that as one of the room's services.
- Mitch
This would be an alternative for "If your problem involves personal information, or you don't feel comfortable publishing your message to the discussion group."
- Kishore Balakrishnan
I was under the impression that you couldn't create a room using the same name as a user. For example, http://friendfeed.com/rooms... doesn't exist; it just redirects to my feed and doesn't allow me to create it either. Maybe this restriction was added after you created the "jobs" room nickname for which the "jobs" user already exists: http://friendfeed.com/jobs
- Tony Ruscoe
Tony is correct. There is a single namespace to avoid confusion between users and rooms.
- Bret Taylor
Will this remain like this "forever"? It makes names of (wider) interest less available and makes it possible for people to behave like things and snatch useful room names. For example: "opensocial" cannot be a room now, although it should be.
- Nenad Nikolic
@Nenad I also think it would be better if it were optional to have a room with your username.
- Benedikt Koehler
I hope FriendFeed will consider either separating user and room namespaces or at least offer an option for users to "lock" a room with their username. Furthermore, it's weird that a URL of a non-existing user does NOT get redirected to a room with the same name, while a URL of a non-existing room gets redirected to a user with the same name. Any comments from the officials? :-)
- Nenad Nikolic
So I added two feeds to a room for the same site: One for comments and the other for the blog's main feed. Then I decided I should remove the comments because they are flooding the room. The problem is, I can't. The two feeds are indistinguishable in the edit/add dialog.
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Suggestion: in the friendfeed front page (maybe upper right corner), I would like to see a sign in form where I can type name and password. I don't really want to click on "sign in" link then type my name and password
I'm not sure about this, but if someone in a private room subscribes to the room's atom feed on a public aggregator like Google Reader, Bloglines, MyYahoo! etc. isn't the contents of the private feed going to become public? By removing the autodiscovery code for the feed, you make it harder for people to inadvertently compromise content that other room members posted with the understanding that it would be private. Personally, I think there needs to be a clearer definition of what private means on FriendFeed.
- Dominic Jones
I sent a bunch of invites to some friends at work and almost none of them could use the invite b/c it wasn't sent to the address that was associated w/ their FriendFeed account.
- Michael Leggett
Simple solution: if I click on a invite that hasn't been used already and am signed in, just let me use it. Maybe notify the admin who sent the invite (either in the room, via email, or not at all).
- Michael Leggett
More complex solution: Let me use the invite as above but also let me associate the email address that the invite was sent to with my FF account so that future invites sent to that address are more easily used.
- Michael Leggett
Kevin? Thoughts? I know y'all are moving offices today... but don't leave me hanging on this one. Many of those I invited were not able to use the invitation. And even now, I've made the room public, but the invites don't get people to that room (so they can join). :(
- Michael Leggett
If an invite is sent to one address for a private room, maybe it should be able to be used to create a FF account with another email address.
- Adrian
would be nice to have have an option which deletes imported feed items in a room if no one comments or likes them after a specified period of time (24h-1week)
I'd like the ability for admins to format comments, basic stuff such as bold/ital, highlighting, text colour, I would only use this for formatting the initial comment, which for me is a pull-quote from what I'm linking to, or a comment aimed at kicking off a debate
As room admins, we're the hosts and our reputations/brands are connected to what happens in a room, so having far greater control is a prerequisite to me being able to continue creating rooms. I'm also concerned about keeping problem people out of rooms and being able to freeze a room once an event is over. Please, much more control for admins.
- Dominic Jones
from twhirl
Maybe I missed it but is there a way to delete/edit a feed for a room? I've got a typo in a URL and for the life of me I can't find a way to correct it. Many thanks in advance
Thanks Mark but that doesn't seem to work for me. I posted a link to an rss feed and I don't find anywhere to remove it
- Jon Dillon
Jon, you're talking about Social Media Club, right? If you click on "Share Something," you don't see the Import Your Stuff link on the right of the box?
- Mark Trapp
No Its a room I've created that's private at present. I was trying to populate the room with some of our content before opening it up. The content is an RSS feed from our company web site
- Jon Dillon
Ah, weird. Only thing I can think of if you don't see the links and buttons I'm describing is that you're not an admin for the room, but that's not true.
- Mark Trapp
The room is AFP and in general it seems a bit screwed up I've been trying to change its settings to public so that someone might be able to take a look and help but when I try it tells me the name AFP is taken
- Jon Dillon
Strange although the room is AFP it won't let me change it's privacy setting using either AFP or agence france-presse as the nickname saying both are taken
- Jon Dillon
Weird: looks like private rooms aren't in the same namespace as public rooms and users. There are a bunch of names rooms can't be because someone already has the username (in order to prevent confusion). Wonder if that's also affecting your ability to mess with the feeds.
- Mark Trapp
I guess you're right there seems to be an AFP user (American Finance Professionals) and this must be the issue. Not sure how to resolve this myself, Admin any ideas?
- Jon Dillon
Jon, can you change the room nickname (Leave the name, the nickname is what counts) to something else? You can get to it by clicking on Edit Room Settings in the right sidebar when you're in the room.
- Mark Trapp
Finally managed to change the room nickname to agence-france-presse not as snappy as AFP but thats life with social media branding issues. Apparently you can't have spaces in a nickname too so in goes an extra hyphen
- Jon Dillon
Okay RSS feed now deleted. Thanks for the help Mark much appreciated
- Jon Dillon
No problem; the namespace issues should be made much clearer.
- Mark Trapp