Herzeleid: it's all yours. Mainly because you are the only person who can apparently get it to work consistently.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I love FB, but it drives me crazy, too. The other day my feed was crazy out of whack! It had most people hidden and I couldn't "do" anything b/c everytime I clicked somewhere, I would get a window saying that people were hidden from my news feed. Doh! Great when it works, maddening otherwise.
- Jenny R.
Ugh. Facebook is awful. The only reason I'm there is because if I wasn't, I'd never hear from most of the people I know. Their interface is crap, their account management and customization tools are crap, their ability to not suck at least once a day is crap. I've never liked Facebook and I don't think I ever will because they've done nothing but continually disappoint.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I don't have a problem with Facebook. Yes, there are some things that are annoying, but once you put in the effort to carve the experience into what you want it is all good.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I've carved far more than I should have to. Carving doesn't change their poor interface and poor controls.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Remind me not to defend FB any time soon. I went to post a link just now and I was told that my account was temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. One good deed deserves...a kick in the ass.
- Jenny R.
Ok, 1) The interface really isn't that bad. It is much better then it used to a couple years ago. But, what don't you like about it? 2) Websites go down for maintenance all the time. And the bigger they are the more likely they are to have server issues. Hell, even my company has issues with servers going down at times or databases going wacky and we don't have any clients nearly half as big as Facebook.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
It gets old having an issue with Facebook Every. Single. Day. No joke. There hasn't been a day that's passed in the last...god...year? Two years? when I haven't logged in to Facebook and had something ridiculous or buggy occur. And this is in multiple browser types, which I guess is nice because at least it shows Facebook is nothing if not consistent. And the interface? It's messy. Yes,...
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- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Oh. It's a moment of rejoicing...I'm finally able to open an Inbox message that I've been attempting to open for TWO WEEKS. I guess there's something to be said for an extended weekend of Facebook issues...I finally got to read my message. Trust me...I really do want to like Facebook. REALLY. Not joking. But. I need to be made to feel like I'm still an individual and not just another user plugged into a little cubicle of information farming.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
What Amanda said. All of it. But what's the deal with Facebook Lite? Is that a website or a mobile app? Supposed to be a lot better. EDIT: lite.facebook.com is a website.
- Laura Norvig
At first when they went to the new profile layout I wasn't too big on it. And then I realized. Hey, I don't have to see everyone else crap on their profiles. Which brings me to those crap apps. Those are pretty easy to ignore. Because if someone is sending you invites, you can just block invites from those apps. Unfortunately it takes some work to do so, but you can mold Facebook to be...
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- Mathew™ one of a kind
I like FB, but it does have some periods which are buggier than others - they do manage to keep the whole site from going down, almost all of the time. I really like FB Lite: http://lite.facebook.com/
- Kurt Starnes
Mathew, you're not telling me anything I don't already know. I've managed Facebook to the nth degree and it still bites my bottom dollar. It's less social networking, more "let's do annoying shit online". And I never had a problem with seeing everyone else's crap on their pages because that reflected their personality and what it is they wanted to put out there to others. It was far...
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- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
And let me just take a moment to say that I don't mean to imply in any way that my poor opinion of Facebook reflects anything on you and how you are as an online user. You just have a greater ability to tolerate it than I do. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Much like Friendfeed, I think the experience can be highly variable depending on who you've friended/followed. The UI is kind of sucky, although the lite version is a little more tolerable. When it actually works for me, it's actually not too bad. But Facebook has been excessively crashy for me lately, both in its lite form and in its bloated form. I thought the FF team would've fixed that by now.
- Victor Ganata
Some of it is in who you follow but, with all of the games and assorted apps/add ons facebook is like a really bad ass Myspace.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm forcing myself to get used to it for obvious reasons. Still hate it compared to FF though.
- David Cook
I try and try but still can't stand it.
- Kol Tregaskes
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark Jepsen
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- David Hall
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
Oh, check FF.. doh FarceBook... my fingers are crossed in hope.
- Greig
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- Er-fun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди