Who you calling old? - Simon Wicks

Worsened. I believe we all got "lost in translation" - Olcayto Cengiz

me, improved...no doubt about it. - Zee.

Much improved. - Sweyn Venderbush from PeopleBrowsr

Some things have worsened, but improvement happened in a large scale. - Alejandro

improved - Kevin Johnson

Bit better, bit worse. I use the groups a hella lot more now, and feel i miss some stuff because i dont check them so often. I've subscribed to many more people though. - Simon Wicks

no difference really. - Tony C (Unrated) from fftogo

Better tools... Same awesome people - Johnny

Well, it's better on the whole. But sometimes I'm missing things. A certain feeling, don't know what. - Ton Zijp

I got more responses when I was using a Friendfeed account with a Second Life avatar name, using the then current old Friendfeed. Now I might as well be talking to the walls, or putting messages in bottles and tossing them at the bottom of a landfill. The new version is ok but it sorely needs bulk list management. I need to move about five hundred people or more off my home feed. - Chuck Baggett

Apart from some long-awaited improvements like directs and multiple recipients, the UI is clearly worse and disorganized - Alexandros Georgiadis from PeopleBrowsr

I think the only thing I really miss is the visual arrangement of things. I've had an FF account for a while, but don't consider myself a power user (of course, no one can compare to Kol). - Heather

improved. or maybe every other Social Media site has gotten worse.... - Mike Nencetti

Much improved, loving all the new features and looking forward to whatever new stuff is coming. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I still hate realtime and my time spent here has dropped dramatically. Which isn't a great loss to the internet world, but still. - Nine Ferdinand

It's about the same for me. I hate realtime so I'm permanently paused. I use Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts to make it look like the old version. Doing those things, it's not really different. - Rochelle

Improved exponentially - Karoli from BuddyFeed

Much improved! It's useful in so many more ways now. I was liveblogging in it a couple of weeks ago which was great as other conference attendees joined in in realtime. Then there's private groups and the sweet, sweet hypnotism of the realtime feed! - Martin Bryant

FF has greatly improved for me over the last year. I'm in love with the live updates, etc. Very happy user. - iTad from fftogo

improved. - Parth Awasthi

improved. - AJ Kohn

Improved. - Louis Gray

It's a mixed bag for me...most of the new features are great, but the general community reaction to real-time has meant a decrease in overall participation, or so it seems. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Like someone mentioned above, I feel like I'm missing a lot of stuff. But, I doubt that is FF's fault. More like I'm subbed to too many people or something. Anyway, I do miss the older layout though. - Yolanda

better - anna sauce

Improved, but the settings are somehow scattered around. They tried to create a clean design, which they did (once you remove the awful gray background), but a centralized settings page is necessary. - George Iordanou

Improved. - .LAG liked that

Better and imroved. Leaner, meaner and cleaner. But there are one or two things I miss . . . - Chris Loft

Worse. - Anika

Improved. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

Anika - really? how comes? - Zee.

All the features that were selling points have been taken away. - Anika

My experience is essentially the same. - FFing Enigma

And who you calling "old", Zee? Hehe. ;-) How about mature users? No wait, that doesn't work for some. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Improved. - Akiva

Improved though there are a few old features that I miss. - Steve Sill

Improved in value and in creased my usage also - Chris Heath

Same - Rodfather

I LOVE FriendFeed :) Love new features... it's all good and getting better! :) Brian - YEP, I remember those days! fun - Susan Beebe

For the record, I see a complete difference with how things were in the 'old days' as to how things were before the UI change. Those are two different vectors. - Akiva

Changed? It's more realtime, which means that it's more useful for immediate communications, but less useful as a showcase for information. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Zee, you do realize that those who "voted with their feet" won't be here to tell you how much they hated the changes, right? Slightly skewing the results of this poll ;-) - Sprague D

yeah, good point Sprague :) - Zee.

gotten better for the most part though some concessions have been made imo - Cee Bee

it's different in a better sort of way - I liked the original just fine though - mike "glemak" dunn

Improved - I think there's a big win still to be achieved with the look, but real-time and simplifications really do it for me - Christopher Galtenberg

i wish i could say my experience was better, but it is worse. - edythe

Improved. - Aaron Hood

More powerful but more fragmented when compared to the old days. UI needs improvements though. - David Young

I no likee the new style. I likee old style mo' bettah. Old style was better for conversations in threads. more easy to follow. my old brain hurts with this new style. and i forget stuff when it goes to page 2. but more people like the new style i guess. bastards. :-) but i still love you all. really, i do. - Morgan

I miss the icons which indicated what their entries were. And yes, I know there are greasemonkey scripts, for that, but I didn't have to do that last time. And I hate the real-time thingee, too. - Derrick

I'm not really sure - a few days ago I was frustrated and today I'm fine with things - so guess it just depends on the day. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Despite my respect and love for Morgan, I'm in the MO likee camp. Much mo, in fact. But I'm pretty easy to please. There are one or two things that I miss from the old days (like stats), but real time and the added benefit that this brings to other new features like DMs... have you ever used a DM as an IM platform, awesome!... plus the removal of caps from post length and the email addresses and.... yeah, definitely mo likee! - Jim #TeamMonique

improved... - Kelly W.

its faster so missing an hour you'd have to back track several pages. end users shouldn't have to track repeated post, it would be nice if duplicates were automatically not allowed - Monique

I suspect you aren't going to hear too much from the people who didn't care for the update for two reasons: 1. The enthusiasts just argue with you, and who needs that and 2. If you *really* didn't like it you're gone -- you ain't using it and didn't hear the question. In any case, after a little time getting used to it, I have adjusted. But during the time of adjustment I got used to not using FF as much, and there's a lingering distrust of it, if I invest again in learning how things work, are they going to change it again. And while I was typing this, something happened and the screen refreshed. I didn't lose any of my work but I did lose my train of thought. - Dave Winer

I've seen the first real growth in a while, but my personal FF experience has been down lately - RAPatton

improved - Panayotis Vryonis

Improved but could be better with some minor tweaks. I do feel I am missing more things which means I need to make more lists. - Amani

Jason Huebel: you can do that still... the url is still the same (i think) here it is: http://friendfeed.com/realtim... - Chris Heath

it even still has the service icons still - Chris Heath

Improved in some ways and not so much in others. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

improved without question - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

I miss the old interface. And I miss the level of communication I used to get before RT and the Twitter influx. I guess the verdict for me is worsened. - Lindsay

"I'm 37. I'm not old." - Craig Eddy

mixed. New cleaner interface is nice. A lot of old features were nicer. - Mitchell Tsai

I LUV it. However, the realtime is too fast for me - I usually have to pause - Ric Johnson

I like it better. - Bill Bittner

Love it. - Mary B: #TeamMonique

What current site most resembles the old friendfeeds mode of operation? - Chuck Baggett

Gotten much worse for me from the perspective of people looking at stuff I post, but improved the ability to have ad-hoc conversation. Overall I'm in the Nay camp. - Threepwood

I have mixed feelings. I like some of the changes but now I feel that I miss a good deal of content that I didn't before. I think this is primarily due to the fact that I can't get best of day for my lists anymore and even the current best of day only provides a small fraction of the posts on a daily basis. I also think real-time doesn't allow for the level of discovery that was available before and many items fly by the stream never to return. - Mark Krynsky

Improved. - Micah

Way improved. - Robert Scoble

Scoble is a n00b. :) - Louis Gray

Louis: watch it buddy or I'll leave a rotting banana in your BMW. ;-) - Robert Scoble

What Akiva said. Also: I love being able to search so specifically, and save searches and all that. However, I get significantly less engagement in certain circles of people that I *think* is directly related to real-time causing stuff to fly by. There's no objective way to measure that, though, it could just be people changing their habits, their subscription numbers, etc. EDIT: And I'm not just talking about less engagement for me. I also see other users have less comments on their stuff. - Laura Norvig

Social Media Foxy Boxing is so overdue... - Johnny

Improved. - Steven Perez

I wish they'd done something a bit more ballsy with the new ui. Feels unpolished to me. Flickr's level of cleanliness would have been nice to see. Nevertheless, the real-time stuff is cool. I wish the additions to the API were out though... - Aaron Brethorst

Improved. I'm spending much more time here now. - Murray Barton

Improved - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

it actually became *usable* - Artem

I think that it's improved although disappointed that there is now no Best of Day on the iPhone application - Joe Dawson

Mixed, leaning toward worse. Real-time updates rule, but the new UI looks like Fisher-Price's My First Portal Page. Missing favicons identifying sources of updates, among other things - l.m.orchard

I'm not sure the current color-scheme and layout are the best they've ever had, but the product itself has definitely improved. The original FriendFeed was more like a super-soaker squirt gun. You pump it up and a little stream of water shoots out for a bit. Now, it's actually a firehose. Always on. You could potentially see all of your stream if you just stared at it all day. - Rahsheen?

A little better. - tehKenny

I did not like it at first. I preferred the old format better - For some reason since the update I have been receiving new subscribers daily. Do you think that is because more people have joined since the update? - Laurie DesAutels

Improved! - Peter van Teeseling

Vastly improved. - Angus Burton