It might make sense if they can opensource the code.
FriendFeed is shutting down
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#22One 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)?
Did t61 even get acquired? They seemed to just toss their users for fun.
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#23best 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...
Agreed, Tornado was/is awesome. Is it still being used in new projects? I somewhat prefer it to node/etc for that style of app, but I would probably still choose JS for real-time web nowadays just because of the mindshare/community around it. I would love it if there was a thriving Tornado community somewhere that I'd missed.
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#24We 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). ---- 1. http://friendfeed.com/the-life-scientists 2. http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou.…
I miss that interface and community. Even if FriendFeed was still around, though, I wonder if it would be as popular. That group contained the early adopters of internet communication among scientists, a movement that has now grown exponentially. My guess is that the signal would be overwhelmed by noise, or broken down into sub-groups by specialty, which would overwhelm the delightful serendipity of it all.
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#25I personally hate when services let people down. I prefer a much more "future oriented" approach much like the one from Basecamp https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3830-ta-da-list-until-the-end... or the idea behind https://posthaven.com/ I guess it's all about vision and how to delight your customers. All the people who believed in a product are people who trusted your words, and gave you access to a lot of their inform…
They continued to run FriendFeed for 5 years after it was clear the core team was moving on. That is above and beyond the call of duty.
37 Signals has a healthy business with good revenue building only "sane" products. To compare the two is apples to oranges.
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#26It might make sense if they can opensource the code.
+1
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#27How can I export my data? I know there is an API but it will be incredible useful to have a link to download everything.
Google Reader had an option to export your data when they closed their web service.
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#28best 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...
Agreed, Tornado was/is awesome. Is it still being used in new projects? I somewhat prefer it to node/etc for that style of app, but I would probably still choose JS for real-time web nowadays just because of the mindshare/community around it. I would love it if there was a thriving Tornado community somewhere that I'd missed.
We use it for quite a bit at my job (for everything really). Mostly, I think due to familiarity.
I enjoy working with it (and I've grown to really enjoy python due to my time using it), and it's possible to build a server that uses generators pretty easily. The only problem is that you have to be really watchful for blocking calls mucking the whole thing up.
For a long time, I really would have rather used node, but now, I'm ok with using python. I pushed us into a micro service style architecture, so one day, it's feasible to upgrade different parts of the stack with different technologies.
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#29The Archive Team on the case to archive the content as usual #humancentifeed https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/575143304859361280
I think the Archive Team is going to have a hard time preserving Friendfeed content, due to resource limitations of the platform. For example, it only provides a very limited amount of data through the frontend (was 600 posts, now slightly higher), and slightly more through the API (10,000).
I'm currently working on a system, but it requires user input, in order to bypass the limitations of the API.
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#30How can I export my data? I know there is an API but it will be incredible useful to have a link to download everything. Google Reader had an option to export your data when they closed their web service.
You could only export your feed URLs from Google Reader. They had content archived, but you couldn't easily export the content. People wrote their own scrapers, it was a big mess and no one knows how much content only existed in Reader that was deleted when it went down.