I say it will - Shey

increase interaction I would imagine - Nathan Chase

Will which? You posed an either-or question. :) - Craig Eddy

it might scare newcomers a little. - mjc

I say it will increase interaction 10-fold. - Craig Eddy

Agree. The sheer pace makes me want to interact more. - Will Higgins™

Definitely increase interaction. - Evan Brown

hard to interact with everything flying past so fast! need a keyboard shortcut for pause! - Capn' One Eye - adrift

It's lessening my interaction - I keep having to go back to the old interface to see what all of my friends are posting. Once this becomes the interface, I doubt I'll have enough time to constantly check the feeds, much less comment. - Jennifer Dittrich

a) No more bias towards FF posts http://friendfeed.com/e... - Shey

b) Flow rate of the river forces you to make an effort to find the signal - Shey

I'm finding more interaction so far, - Rich

Now that I've paused the live nonsense I think new FF will be awesome. Once they let me know which rooms have been updated. - iTad

Today is "new shiny" interaction.. only time will tell - Bwana ☠

c) Direct messaging opens up a new avenue of interaction - Shey

I think it will decrease interaction. It's hard to have a conversation with a fire hose. - The original Kevin

It will decrease quality interaction in my opinion - Manuela

Yeah, but who comes to the internet for 'quality interaction'? - Will Higgins™

@chris: you mean that people actually tweet in FF ? - Olivier

Actually, I'm noticing folks are posting comments as posts. That may just be a beta thing though - Shey

@Will - I /was/ coming to FF for quality interaction. I'm hoping that won't be lost with this update, but I'm finding it hard to keep up without either cutting off 90% of my feed, or using the old interface. - Jennifer Dittrich

It definately will :) - Roberto Bonini