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FriendFeed is shutting down
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Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#12best thing to come out of friendfeed, Tornado. I remember asking Bret Taylor on his blog [0] when he gave a Tornado example if he'd ever release it. A bit of time went by, then he did. [1] Thanks Bret. [0] http://backchannel.org/blog/tornado [1] https://friendfeed.com/friendfeed-news/9b8fbaed/technology-b...
Will Tornado continue to be maintained?
There are still a lot of commits being made: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commits/master
Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#13best thing to come out of friendfeed, Tornado. I remember asking Bret Taylor on his blog [0] when he gave a Tornado example if he'd ever release it. A bit of time went by, then he did. [1] Thanks Bret. [0] http://backchannel.org/blog/tornado [1] https://friendfeed.com/friendfeed-news/9b8fbaed/technology-b...
Will Tornado continue to be maintained? There are still a lot of commits being made: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commits/master
Tornado has a BDFL (Ben Darnell) who continues to maintain it, and hasn't been a part of facebook/friendfeed for some time now.
Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#14One of those things... Friendfeed was technically better medium than twitter in every single way at the time (maybe still) yet it died (don't mean that it failed). Another example of why making social startups is a huge risk.
It was much better for me than Twitter, but once the acquisition happened (FB w/ a rumored $50M), they decided to show the middle finger to its users. Isn't this the same as what happened to the thesixtyone (t61)?
Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#15best thing to come out of friendfeed, Tornado. I remember asking Bret Taylor on his blog [0] when he gave a Tornado example if he'd ever release it. A bit of time went by, then he did. [1] Thanks Bret. [0] http://backchannel.org/blog/tornado [1] https://friendfeed.com/friendfeed-news/9b8fbaed/technology-b...
Goddamn Tornado was/is the best Python HTTP server ever. Asides from the wide utility library of non-blocking IO (years before node got popular) it had Sinatra-style class based routing that was far simpler than django's bizarre route.as_route() stuff.
A friend once said the worst thing about Tornado was how little publicity it got.
Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#16An interesting Quora answer by Bret about the status of FriendFeed some weeks ago. http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-current-status-of-FriendFeed
And FriendFeed would have still be running if not that question. Bret was reminded about FriendFeed and decided to take it down completely.
Quite sad to see that move now, especially when seeing that it's still actively used in Iran and Turkey, two countries who block or censor twitter at will.
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#17We had a wonderful, thriving life science community [1] on Friendfeed, which we have not been able to replicate since. Some of that crowd even published a paper about it [2]. Most of the original crowd left sometime after the FB acquisition. While many of us hang out on Twitter, it's not the same thing).
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1. http://friendfeed.com/the-life-scientists
2. http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#18An interesting Quora answer by Bret about the status of FriendFeed some weeks ago. http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-current-status-of-FriendFeed
And FriendFeed would have still be running if not that question. Bret was reminded about FriendFeed and decided to take it down completely.
Bret did not make the decision to close FriendFeed. Bret left Facebook more than two years ago. He had no involvement.
Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#19One of those things... Friendfeed was technically better medium than twitter in every single way at the time (maybe still) yet it died (don't mean that it failed). Another example of why making social startups is a huge risk.
It was much better for me than Twitter, but once the acquisition happened (FB w/ a rumored $50M), they decided to show the middle finger to its users. Isn't this the same as what happened to the thesixtyone (t61)?
They kept the service running for more than five years after the aqui-hire. I wouldn't call that showing the middle finger.
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#20FriendFeed had the best social network mechanics of all social networks I ever saw. Part of it made it into Facebook now (but I can't consider really using FB).
Unfortunately, it had no monetization strategy. I suspect that if they had optional paid accounts by now (e.g. $3/mo), many people would pay just to keep the thing afloat and their community intact.
Unfortunately, there seem to be only two ways for an online service to last: to become paid by users commercially, or to become "paid" by users' labor of love when they install and maintain it. The later practically requires the service to open its source code.