I forgot all about friendfeed about the time facebook bought it. I remember it being quite good.
FriendFeed is shutting down
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Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#42I 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.
I know they are not the same kind of business, and I didn't want my view to sound harsh, sorry if it seemed that way.
As you said they did A LOT for the friendfeed platform even after it was somewhat decided they would have not mantained anymore, that is not something I want to ignore.
My point is that many services are born and die, some of them die because they weren't building "sane" products. It's a choice, not complaining about that, but I personally prefer when there's a path ahead that won't let the users down because they weren't relying on funding or other things to stay up, but only on the power of their users.
Maybe I'm asking for something impossible? Dunno, but the PostHaven/Basecamp thing is giving me hope :)
Re: FriendFeed is shutting down
#43We 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.
FriendFeed has good tools for keeping signal:noise high: Hide, like, best of day