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Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-) - Keith Bennett from Nambu

Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix). - Paul Buchheit

Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others). - Paul Buchheit

You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more. - Paul Buchheit

Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these. - Robert Scoble

Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :) - Paul Buchheit

Thanks, Paul. :) - Josh Haley

Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them. - ianf ⌘

I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box? - Tony Ruscoe

Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now! - caj needs a haircut

Thanks Paul! - Edwin Khodabakchian

Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies. - Paul Buchheit

I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion). - Mike Reynolds

Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know. - Brian

Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly. - Brian

Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status? - ehaab

ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that. - Paul Buchheit

thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking. - ehaab

I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent. - Daniel Sims

I'm betting the imaginary friend namespace is unique to you. In other words, it won't prevent someone from using that name globally. - Leo Laporte

Leo, that's not true. Creating a feed (which is how the Beta FAQ suggests you should create an imaginary friend) essentially creates a room. Rooms and users use the same public namespace. - Tony Ruscoe

Yeah, I think its public. That also means Room names clash with Nicknames. - Ahsan Ali

Yes, I think this will be problematic. I'm purposefully not using friends' twitter names for when they join FF. I decided to make a consolidated feed per topic. One is called imagFriends-gtd for the people I follow on twitter re GTD. That worked fine in that their posts came over but now I can't tell which of the 3 people made which post. I know it's still being hashed out. I'm looking forward to see what comes out of it. - metalerik

Oh. I never realised that. Seems like quite a flaw to me. - Quasar

Imaginary friend does not have nickname in FF API (we need to distinguish them by UUID) and I think FF is going to dump it in the next release. At least beta dumped it. - NaHi from f2p

Glad this issue was brought up. - Micah

Very good point, this is a major flaw! And how are imaginary friends going to be converted to the new UI system? They need to have unique URLs. For example, one of my imaginary friends is at this URL: http://beta.friendfeed.com/08bd132.... Not sure you can view it but is this the best way to resolve this issue? #betakoltag-sg-gen - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, I'd suggest using some other naming scheme for "Feeds" (friendfeed/feeds/feedname) and usernames for 'People'. - Ahsan Ali

I know my entry didn't grab much attention but this kind of 'resource model' should be established first: http://friendfeed.com/e... - NaHi from f2p

NaHi I saw that the first time around - impressive effort! The question is - is FF listening to us ? - Ahsan Ali

Ahsan: I bet they have a concrete model and just watching us discussing to add a final touch to it. - NaHi from f2p

Hey NaHi, I just realized you're the author of soap4r :) Complicated stuff, but its a life-saver ! - Ahsan Ali

Ok, I've reported this to FF as a 'bug'. - Ahsan Ali