Also been popped in the FF discussion group. I don't know about you, but I've found the refresh rate to be highly-irregular - sometimes it's one minute, other times it's five minutes or more. - Cyvros/fyc
fyc, it could be because of how it works - it won't refresh unless it's certain that you wouldn't be interrupted (ie. writing a comment). Could that be it? - Aviv
"...five minutes or more." Or never, as is often the case with me. - Voyagerfan5761
A couple of things I noticed: the refresh interval is 2 minutes. It won't autorefresh if you're doing something on the site. You could tweak it to be longer than 2 minutes, but never lower. - engtech
@tony: there's a hard limit of 2 min without rewriting their autorefresh handler. I'm assuming that would get in their bad books. - engtech
@Aviv -- that isn't a bad idea, actually. ;) A slow rolling (or in the case of Scoble, a really fast) stream of news. - Tony Hung
If you use Firefox theres always this as a possible option...http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/. Only if you're wanting a rate faster than every 2 minutes though I guess. - Tony Miller
@TonyMiller -- looks good, except I'd like it to refresh in the background (it only works while you're on the page looking at it, I tihnk). - Tony Hung
If you want autoscroll, middle click your mouse button and hold it. Then move the mouse down. Works on every web page. - engtech
@Engtech -- what? No greasemonkey script to automate my finger holding down the mouse button? :) - Tony Hung
i'd be satisfied with 'turn it off'. the reload screws up the way i work ff. - Nicole Simon
Unfortunately, many organizations are "crazy" in this way. Perhaps they don't announce problems because they don't have fixes for them yet. I wish more companies were proactive, even if they just said "we don't know what's causing the problem, and we don't know when it can be fixed, but yes there's a problem." - Ontario Emperor
Funny thing is that's a completely pre-web way of handling this . What's Twitter about? Its about real-time communication. It'd be nice if we heard anything resembling real time updates as to what's been borked... and not a "we're trying to fix things guys" about 16 hours ago (via @twitter_updates) ... not saying they owe anyone anything -- but this has been going on for about a day. Which is like a week in non-Twitter time. :) - Tony Hung
Certainly some more openness would be ideal. What is the ideal time between status updates on a free, non-critical application such as Twitter? Updates every 3 hours? - Ontario Emperor
@OntarioEmperor -- really, as often as is needed, as they ought to be leaving something up on their blog to start off with that would answer a lot of questions. Dreamhost, for example, borks up from time to time, but they *always* have status updates http://www.dreamhoststatus.com, and they always allow people to rant (and rave) as they need to in the comments. - Tony Hung
Profile pic and a little bit of info would be great - Twitter does that aspect just right - Eric Berlin
Speaking of Twitter, anyone know what the hell is wrong with updates and more importantly when it will be fixed ? - Eric Berlin
I'd like to see something like what Google has with its Shared Stuff profiles - it's small and allows for links to wherever else you are online, so a combination of the script engtech noted and the Twitter-type profile that Eric noted. - Cyvros/fyc
Ha! Love it, totally know the feeling - Eric Berlin
... and failing. Still caught up in its inexorable pull. Maybe its more of a blackhole, where even the best of intentions (to get work done) can't escape. - Tony Hung
If you want to get really drastic, temporarialy kill the internet connection. - Jason Kaneshiro
@Jason ..OMG let's not get too carried away :) - Steven Hodson
I found the only way I can get out of the Vortex is to get onto a plane and fly somewhere. :-) - Robert Scoble
@Jason -- its part of my defcon plan. "In the event of severe work stoppage, please pull *here*" - Tony Hung
Nuke your whole OS - that'll keep you busy for a few hours. ;) - flammable
i got sucked in too. my advice? cut down your feeds esp ones which almost duplicate the same thing, only have alert-thingy/twhirl/whatever open once an hour or so... and find something else to do as well? ...via AlertThingy - Snipergirl
@Snipergirl -- the problem is that I already have too many things to do. :P - Tony Hung
@tonyhung in which case you should have no problem! maybe socweb20 is good for you hahahaha :) ...via AlertThingy - Snipergirl
I find "social media" to be a time save. I can skim FriendFeed for 30 minutes, whereas I'd need to be on Google Reader for hours to catch everything. - Mike Reynolds
I have friendfeed running in Prism. Firefox is my default browser. I click a link in friendfeed and it opens in a new tab in firefox. Automagically. - Slippy Lane
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“Twitter is a bit spotty today. Hanging out on Friendfeed seems more reliable, ironically.”
