Comments on: Anyone Still Using Friendfeed?

By: Chris Watkins

Chris Watkins — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:57:09 +0000

Friendfeed is a big disappointment to me because it lacks a way to track conversations. We use social media to interact with other green and development people, whether in aid, permaculture, appropriate technology or health. Friendfeed has a great potential, but because we have no idea who has commented on our posts, we have no reason to check the site, nor to comment on other people’s posts (since we won’t know whether they’ve responded).

Unless there’s some way of tracking other people’s comments that we’re not aware of.

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By: Cjay

Cjay — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:21:46 +0000

Come on!!! Get over it….. Twitter has turned into a garbage dump. Friendfeed has a quality that twitter will never have. Quality vs. quantity, So what they made a tab for Friendfeed into your facebook wall wow… big deal…. Get some class and use friendfeed and forget that piece of bird crap called twitter.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:42:09 +0000

Wait… friendfeed has technology behind it? I thought it was just another social aggregation-soup site…

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:07:13 +0000

FTMP I don’t read you if you’re not on FriendFeed. I subscribe to some in Google Reader, but FriendFeed is my main Twitter client and more. That has never changed, and in fact has probably become even more the case over the last several months.

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:00:34 +0000

I was a pretty heavy FriendFeed user and have definitely seen my usage drop considerably since the Facebook acquisition. Part of it is a concern with their future but I’ve also made a conscious effort to try and balance my usage across multiple services more adequately. I still feel the platform itself is the best one out there and met many great people including many of the commenters here and even Allen himself :)

By: Bhowmik

Bhowmik — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:13:46 +0000

Though i haven’t been on Friendfeed as long as some of the others have but in the short time that i have been there i have been using it avidly.

My twitter usage has gone up but my Friendfeed usage hasn’t declined even after the news of the acquisition and like Holden said, i still find new people and new stuff everyday.

I guess its eventual that it will slowly fade but at the moment it just seems like there is a slump in activity. I also agree with Louis that its been a long while since any updates.

By: Adelaide DJ

Adelaide DJ — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:33:00 +0000

pity, i was just starting to enjoy using friendfeed even though no body ever replied to any of my comments lol

By: Alex Schleber

Alex Schleber — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:44:30 +0000

FriendFeed is still the best solution to archive one’s Twitter stream (including any imported Twitter “following”) and have it be searchable. Twitter’s “7 days back” search is of course a joke, and FF fills that void. Same for the lack of lists that FF will supply in PERSISTENT ways (unlike Tweetdeck etc.)

Is it important to have access to all of the links (i.e. “alternative bookmarks”) that we all have so enthusiastically “meta-tagged” in our Twitter streams? Of course. The fact that I can’t search at least my own tweets on Twitter all the way back is shocking…

Is it useful to be able to search back-data on e.g. my Branding group, my Coaching group, etc. Of course. And nothing else yet allows this.

That said, FF never made it easy enough to mass-import Twitter friends not already registered on FF, adding individual ones manually has been far too tedious. And of course we dont’ know if Zuckerberg will ultimately let the service survive. Let’s pray that at least the archive will always stay available.

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:21:47 +0000

Friendfeed, was that some social networking something or other?

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:43:23 +0000

i wonder if they turned off some cdn or something – because i agree it used to be dead instant for everything – now it’s slow

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:15:19 +0000

I don’t use it much now. For me it seems a waste as at any moment it could be killed.

I just use Twitter for this stuff at the moment.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:16:12 +0000

I still use FriendFeed, and still loving it!

I’m waiting for the day when FF will go open source and can be used widely as a forum replacement.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:13:54 +0000

I too have noticed their servers to be a lot slower that usual. In the past a query would be served almost instantaneously, but now five or so seconds is not uncommon.

FriendFeed’s community is devouring itself. It’s separated into a few groups of closely knit people that don’t get along with each other. There’s too much drama and trolling going on now. It’s not a pleasant experience for new users. Total loss of community direction.