FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by Mithrandir » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 3:26 AM UTC

FriendFeed is shutting down
blog.friendfeed.com

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by DevFactor » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 5:03 AM UTC

Ditch your friendfeed & head over to http://www.youtube.com/devfactor and code with me :)

The web has enough social outlets, now we need more productivity outlets!

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by gourneau » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 8:19 AM UTC

Sad to see it officially shutdown. I have been using their API for years on my crusty personal page. It has been rock solid.

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by bootload » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 8:29 AM UTC

best 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...

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by andrea_sdl » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 10:39 AM UTC

I 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 information. Yet it's so easy to let them down and shut down a service. It was for springpad, it now is for friend feed. Sometimes it's about the money sometimes it's about the users (I guess it's always about the money though).

But I can't help it, I prefer when you can trust a service,and I'd be willing to pay as long as I know that service will stay up even if I'm the only user.

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by liotier » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 11:19 AM UTC

Thank you FriendFeed - I'll miss you. At some point I thought Friendfeed was going to take over the world... But as usual I have to be reminded that I am not representative of the mass audience.

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by napolux » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 11:24 AM UTC

liotier wrote: post #6

Thank you FriendFeed - I'll miss you. At some point I thought Friendfeed was going to take over the world... But as usual I have to be reminded that I am not representative of the mass audience.

+1

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by napolux » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 11:25 AM UTC

An interesting Quora answer by Bret about the status of FriendFeed some weeks ago.

http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-current-status-of-FriendFeed

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by garkrau » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 11:36 AM UTC

napolux wrote: post #8

An 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.

Re: FriendFeed is shutting down

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Post by fmavituna » Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 12:02 PM UTC

One 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.