Wow. I am impressed with that. If they could add that capability to the upcoming 50D then they might get a few more people to upgrade. - John Ford
I might try and rent one for my wedding just for kicks. It could be really fun. [edit]. So from what someone mentioned on an email list at work, there may possibly be a firmware update coming soon for us D300/700/3 owners :) ... which would be completely rad! - Dustin
Having just received our D700 yesterday, I'm very much hoping this is the case. Technically, it looks like live preview is the essential hardware feature to enable this, so it certainly sounds plausible. - Kevin Fox
Is it MF only while recording? (I assume so) - Benjamin Golub
Yes, but honestly that's how you'd want it. An SLR's AF would be to snappy and jittery. - Kevin Fox
Agreed. Not sure how useful the auto focus would be unless you were recording yourself and you were moving around. Also, the other concern for D700 owners is the 'no mic' whereas the D90 has a mono-mic. But really, I'd be down with silent movies, or have the ability to plug in a mic. - Dustin
I'd also like to see Disqus comments to be treated as comments, which by implementing Louis suggestion in point 2, will make more sense i guess. Comments are comments, posts are posts. In case there will be no link to which the comment is added, it could work like posting a link with the Disqus comment under. Btw, @Robert, you don't have Disqus hooked up in FF ;) - Tibor Holoda
Excellent post Louis. You are pretty much spot on with those 10 suggestions. - Mike Fruchter
Tibor: I don't like Disqus pulling in comments here. Often I want different communities to remain separate. I'll manually pull in comments or point out when I've made comments that FriendFeeder's should be aware of. Like I did here. - Robert Scoble
FriendFeed is a lifestream aggregator and I use it to aggregate all my various 'outputs'. Disqus comments are just one category of my 'outputs'. Therefore, Disqus comments are perfectly valid and *do* belong in my FriendFeed stream The fact, that such comments may be out of context to people bending FF into a Social Media Forum is an unfortunate consequence. - Andy C
11. add user definable font size. the new beta makes me squint :) - h1ro
#9! I hide things liberally and it does bug me, when I click on page 2, I'm seeing page 1 all over again. - Yolanda
Great suggestions Louis,
I would also add:
The Ability to Hide Specific RSS Feeds and
Search All Entries by URL - Shey
and go-faster stripes, a background of babes in bikinis, and intermittant embedded hilarious fart noises. - john conroy
I have to so that FF has been growing well with the current feature set. Like all areas of activity contraints can sometimes be helpful. FF needs to innovate itself, rather than copy straight from Twitter (DM's), Facebook (profiles) etc. 2,4,10 are most important. The issue here is not so much what features we want as how can FF grow into a mature platform. - Roberto Bonini
Robert: I see your point, but i still think it would be a good thing to handle Disqus comments as comments, not as posts. User decides, if he wants them appear in his FF stream or not - like in your case. - Tibor Holoda
Great List Louis! #2 is my favorite one. - Peter Hoffmann
Tibor, I agree with you (Robert, when are you going to enable Disqus on your blog?). For the blog owner it's much easier to consolidate into one place if they can tie your comments straight to the FriendFeed post itself instead of an entirely new post. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
One more suggestion - tagging. I want to be able to tag individuals, both in my posts, *and* my comments if I'm talking about them or something they might be interested in. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Excellent list. My top priority though, isn't on there - (as per Shey) renaming or separating "Blog" posts, so individuals can hide your blog vs. another "blog" .. I'd also like it easier to determine which services I am/am not showing per individual. Just give me some enable/disable checkboxes on the users page. Strands did this right. - Tim Hoeck
Great suggestions Louis. One clarification on #4 -- most people never see this "default" list because they were either invited by another user, or they import friends from email or facebook. The recommendations are then based entirely on who their other friends are, and will make a lot more sense. - Paul Buchheit
Indeed some good suggestions. My guess is that the reason that #2 (duplicates) has not been implemented yet, is that it is very tricky to do right. If they do manage to implement it and get it right, I will be very impressed. I would not be too surprised though, since Friendfeed has some really sharp people working there. - Robert Felty
Excellent List and some good suggestions in comments as well. I really would like to see 2,3,5,6, & 10. The share on FF bookmarklet should be more like Tumblr's. I would also like to be able to filter my feed to prevent duplicates. I would like to cross post my tumblr to my main blog and twitter but in doing so I create more noise for my FF stream. If I could filter out posts from blog or twitter that started with "XYZ" then I could cross post freely without worrying about FF noise. - tsudohnimh
@Paul, thanks for the comment. I did test by signing up to just one individual, as if they had invited me, and by changing the one person I subscribed to, the recommended friends did change. That said, if you check out recommended friends in Facebook, there's the option to "X" out people you don't want and provide more. Plaxo also does this well. - Louis Gray
Re: #1 and #8 I would like to see profile information that I can search, so I can find FF folks who are geographically near me or who are in my profession or who share a common interest with me. Great post - thanks! - Courtney McGough
Pownce should worry about #10. FF will soon have to worry about cannibalizing its data suppliers, and what that means for ongoing openness. #! & #2 are the big ones with me, and I just don't see why FF enabled fake followers. - Logical Extremes
being 1st or 2nd is all that matters in that particular field.... 3rd placings and below would normally whither away - Mark L via twhirl
I am really getting confused. I just commented on the post. Now I see the comments here as posts. Totally agree with Tibor, messing posts together with comments, be it from Disqus or anywhere else, does not increase transparency. - Jan Horna
#7 - want to make sure i understand that concept of "fake follow" - home feed contains all friends by default & you can then add them to a list/grouping to subdivide them for easier readability - to remove them from the home feed you have to actually de-select them when you add them to a list and then never go to that list again - is that what "fake follow" is - if so, way to much work for no return and only lame*ss self absorbed status mongers will be doing it - imho of course :) - mike "glemak" dunn
#5 - My thought would be to make an invitation-only private room. Wouldn't this solve the partial-distribution problem? - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, it could, and some do, but that's a room, and not a feed. Unless the room data permeates the feed, it could get missed. - Louis Gray
I like your list. One other feature I'd like to see is to filter by service in whatever view I am in. - Jeff P. Henderson
The absolute killer feature for me would be, if FF will recognize languages of the posts, or at least to differentiate between english vs. non-english and allow filtering. Would that even be possible or did my brain just farted? :) - Tibor Holoda
(sorry for cross posting) Firstly, I'd like to add to Louis' list the capability to search rooms and then to search inside rooms. Secondly, I must confess that support for a basic profile would be useful. But as always I'd encourage the reuse of data (so importing it from whatever source the user decides). DMs might be usefull, but I haven't felt the need for them so far. - Alex Popescu
I usually don't like to speak about things that are not ready, but this post was catchy. I currently have a prototype that deals with de-duping the resource links. I haven't looked into de-duping pure messages, but my gut feeling is that this might be even easier. I hope to find the time to deploy this app sometime soon. - Alex Popescu
About private messaging: at first I thought this was a silly idea for ff, until I realized that the private messages could just show up where ff items normally show up, e.g. private comments. - j1m
just like the showing of many likes, you could have the same functionality for identical status updates to Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca, Rejaw, Brightkite, Pownce, Jaiku, etc. via multi-updating services like Ping.fm, Hellotxt, and updating.me - Nathan Chase
This is how Socialthing! is doing it right now, and how FriendFeed should pick it up. When the comment box drops, it should also have the option if you want to reply on which service as well. - Andrew Trinh
so glad Kevin and Paul liked this.. make it happen! ;) - Tim Hoeck
“I like the filter button in someone page, I had to click on the feed tab to remove the filter. would be cool if clicking again on the service icone was removing the filter”
I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !! - Peter Dawson
Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will. - Vinay | विनय
This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll? - Bill Sodeman
OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live! - Chris Baskind
I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now) - Wayne Schulz
Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
click on your name Jennifer, above right - Tibor Holoda
@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too. - Dan Hsiao
you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :) - Allen Stern
@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI. - Michael Nielsen
Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post form is also confusing because you don't quite know what to enter into it; a link, or a message, or...? The fact that it says "Share a link, message, or photos" doesn't really help. Also wasn't sure how to remove a friend from the home feed after moving them to a special list feed. Took me some seconds to find the Delete List icon, because I was looking near the "Add/ remove friends" link navigation. Wasn't sure if I like you created so many default friend lists for me (personal, favorites, professional), though I guess it may be useful to get the point across. I think I'm liking how names aren't underlined, though not so sure a - Philipp Lenssen
I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :) - AJ Batac
Looks like the logo now clicks to the Friends view, as you'd expect. Same as You + Friends. - Chris Baskind
can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable
We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. - Thomas Hawk
Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great! - Aditya Kothadiya
awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site? - Thomas Hawk
thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward - Travis Parsons
like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout... - Baron Mok
We need a "remove from home feed" button under the friends settings. Or there must be an option that we can choose the list which shows on main page. For example, i want to see only "Professional" friends' feeds on the main page. - Selim Yoruk
So many small details and improvements, make SO much difference. - Martin Añazco
At last, I will be able to add to my feed all the people who subscribe to me, and it won't impact on my main source of infobrainment. It looks nice, too. Looks like you guys have pulled another one out of the bag. +1 - Slippy Lane
Hopefully the Greasemonkey scripts I have installed will work with it. - Steven M. Cohen
I'm truly amazed at how good the UI is. The subtle touches like the use of blue links in just the right places or the contextual help like "How does hiding work?". Really great job. I think mioNews just became a little less useful to me, since FF now natively has friend groups. Oh well :P - Patrick Lightbody
It has a great feature in allowing me to separate different people into different lists - that will be worth the whole interface change in itself. I hope that rooms also have embeddable feeds tho! - Justin Long
FF is in a frenzy. This is 16 hrs old and 3rd on my Best of the Week. Congratulations Bret and team. - Russellreno
@Marcos: you can hover your mouse over the comment bubble in front of a comment to get its timestamp. - Dan Hsiao
At Starbucks this morning I heard, for the first time, a stranger mention 'FriendFeed' in the wild. I couldn't catch the context of their conversation, but it's a minor milestone nonetheless. - Kevin Fox
beefbnierf? beefbrief? beef brief? beef? Mmm…beef. - Andrew Trinh
now friendfeed can 'officially' claim it was an east coast office :) - goutham
I've heard it mentioned on a couple different podcasts. CNET's Buzz Outloud for one. I think it was mentioned on TWiT before I stopped listening. - Cyrus Lendvay
Friendfeed does just fine, sharing the videos I post to YouTube. - Peter
No they don't share Youtube movie you post your self, if I don't do anything nobody on my friendfeedlist will see them... I have to share them my self after posting... But when I favorite a video (even ones that ar not my own) it is shared on FriendFeed at once... Or I must have misted someting?.. - Aline
Yes I see now, but why does it take so long before they are posted on friendfeed?.. When you share a video it is visable directly on Friendfeed... - Aline
Sometimes the feeds take a while to refresh. - David Young
@Aline Yep it's a YouTube thing not FF - Kol Tregaskes
@Aline - it's just a matter of slow feeds, as people are sayin here. My favorited photos on Flickr sometimes take 8hrs to show up on FF. Hang in there ;) - Marko via fftogo
Favorite photo's of Flickr will show up when you refresh your feed from Flickr... But I now understand that the videos will be send to Friendfeed, only we don't see them... and if Youtube sends them it is send on the time you posted it... and that is what I didn't see... I tried refresh for Youtube aswell but it didn't work... - Aline
“With the recent update to Twitter's API to allow threaded replies, could we have the replies to Twitter linked to the correct tweets? At times I am looking at Twitter and have no idea what each reply is referring to. http://bit.ly/1FExH4”
After having a taste to Twitter's threading, I rarely want to comment to Twitter via FriendFeed anymore. Is it so much to ask to have our conversations make sense? I thought that was the point of FriendFeed. - Andrew Trinh
Late is better than never, right? ;) - Bret Taylor
I like '4be7b2d69f91', I'm curious about '208ce5d106f5' and '3830ed3ef268', wondering about '431acb1cfc12', and I'm really glad about 'd8167b20f3f4'. - DeWitt Clinton
And I just exceeded my FF time quota for today.... Later! - DeWitt Clinton
thanks! I was wonderin' what happened to that :P - Tim Hoeck
@dewitt, thought you'd be most happy about "Implemented support for the Google Contacts Data API and AuthSub." After all your nagging :) - Bret Taylor
Heh -- I thought I already thanked you for that. If not, thank you! I tried it out a few weeks ago and it worked flawlessly. Turns out all my friends are already here. : ) - DeWitt Clinton
brave of FF to share this. now if we could just see the actual code ;). - Adam Loving via StumbleRead
Wow. I am not an engineer. But I actually enjoyed that. There were thing that I forgot were improvements/changes that I totally take for granted now. Thanks for being the transparent company. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
Like 148992b79c02, rather than me wondering if you're scanning through all of my e-mail. - nadim
Judging by how few of Bret's CLs made it to this list, should we assume that he is working on a super secret project or had too many cuss words in his descriptions :) - Bindu Reddy
Whats this? No commits on 8/16? SLACKERS! - Denton Gentry
Does Benjamin Golub now work for FF? If so, that's great! If not, how come he's able to make changes? - Tony Ruscoe
My guess is that we all work for Friendfeed on some level... - Clare Dibble
I think you're right, Clare. How much payment should we demand? - Gabe Schaffer
Benjamin's even got a FriendFeed email address though... this is a conspiracy! - Tony Ruscoe
Sometimes in the bus, I feel this enforcement to jump in the air, and hear this sedative sound of collecting coins.... just 2 for 1up ... just 2... - Christian Weber-Detjens
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