You will be missed, you have a great voice on FF. I found your blog through FriendFeed and enjoyed your pithy comments. Go if you must, but don't forget us over there if you ever need to see a cute picture of a ladybug on a leaf or a microkittie in a burrito.
Scobleizer
· 1 year ago
Funny that I found this on FriendFeed and there is a better discussion going on there than here. Anyway, it is very clear you never figured out the "hide" feature.
crisatunity
· 1 year ago
I think I can add this to the reasons why FriendFeed is a bad fit for me. I already have two fragmented discussions, on the blog and in Facebook - so a third just dilutes my already sparse discussions.
Maybe if I were a volume blogger like you, the fragmentation would be an asset, though.
crisatunity
· 1 year ago
I looked into the "hide" feature - which I didn't know about. And it is very clear to me that you don't really get what I don't like about FriendFeed. Hiding is great for my consumers, but doesn't really do much of anything for me as the publisher. Now I remember why I unsubscribed to your arrogant blog.
Eric Rice
· 1 year ago
We're all coming here from FF, funny. Anyway, only wanted to throw out there: you don't have to be social on social apps. That Kool-Aid has been sloshed around so much that the jug is empty. I always wished Feedburner would let me splice in anything I wanted to, and it seems that FF (and sites like it) are making that happen. Conversation happening there is cool, but never feel obligated to have to hang around services that are big buckets of RSS output.
Everyone will disagree with me, and that's totally cool. :)
crisatunity
· 1 year ago
The irony does abound. I'm in the same mind as you. At first I liked, then I didn't and so to streamline my life (I tend to organize, a lot) I wanted to stop using.
But, I didn't want to stop using it without a note on why that was more meaningful than, "I hate FriendFeed, it sucks". FriendFeed wasn't the problem, per se, it was more that it was a bad fit for me and I tried to articulate why.
Given the response through FF, I think it would be foolish for me not to at least put my main blog back in the mix there. That seems like a compromise that I can cope with easily enough.
LPH
· 1 year ago
I just discovered your blog through FF. As others have said, the hide feature is very powerful.
Found you through FriendFeed here as well. If it wasn't making any dent on your blog traffic, wasn't contributing to the conversation, or helping others in any way, so be it. I can't imagine that's the case however considering all the other comments on here are people that found your blog through FriendFeed. I suggest keep holding out. As more people grasp FriendFeed it will only become a more and more useful tool. Don't feel like you have to read everything coming out of FriendFeed - what's most important about it is that it can be a tool that you can use to share with others. Hopefully we'll see you again.
crisatunity
· 1 year ago
I gave up a long time ago, reading anyone's content through FriendFeed. That ship has sailed (see noise point in the post).
However, it seems self-evident that I need to put my most critical feeds back into FF, if only to help gather and continue keeping an audience.
Consiliera
· 1 year ago
Never would have found you if it weren't for FF. The beauty of FF is that you don't have to do anything to spread your words...its just more fun for some people to do more than import feeds
Laforge129
· 1 year ago
I've found Friend Feed to be a good aggregation tool for me. Although, I use mine just to post submit my blog post. I haven't done much else with it lately!!
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Maybe if I were a volume blogger like you, the fragmentation would be an asset, though.
Everyone will disagree with me, and that's totally cool. :)
But, I didn't want to stop using it without a note on why that was more meaningful than, "I hate FriendFeed, it sucks". FriendFeed wasn't the problem, per se, it was more that it was a bad fit for me and I tried to articulate why.
Given the response through FF, I think it would be foolish for me not to at least put my main blog back in the mix there. That seems like a compromise that I can cope with easily enough.
However, it seems self-evident that I need to put my most critical feeds back into FF, if only to help gather and continue keeping an audience.
http://www.friendfeed.com/laforge129