DISQUS

Webomatica: Quitting FriendFeed

  • Aaron Brazell · 6 months ago
    Hey Jason-

    Follow your heart on this one. The best conversation is going to be where you're passionate to be, rather than where a bunch of people tell you be. I've made my reasons for leaving pretty clear and I think it closely matches your reasons.

    Whatever works for you at the end of the day.
  • webomatica · 6 months ago
    Thanks. More tools, less conversation, hype and hyperbole.
  • Jesse Stay · 6 months ago
    Jason, sorry to see you go - as Louis said, we'll be here when you get back.
  • webomatica · 6 months ago
    Certainly. Just taking a break. Meanwhile, pretty much everyone I care
    to follow on FF has a blog, Twitter, etc., where notable things
    happening on FF will filter up.
  • alfredwesterveld · 6 months ago
    Leaving friendfeed? Lately I am only using friendfeed to get my information. I really like the realtime feed via http / xmpp integration. I like all the new friendfeed features .
  • webomatica · 6 months ago
    As soon as you wrote "http/xmpp" my eyes rolled over.
  • dcfemella · 6 months ago
    You have to do what is right for you.
  • spragued · 6 months ago
    What a surprise - this post gets more comments than most others (sometimes I think I should just open a shop that sells nothing but references to FriendFeed...) ;-) I appreciate your frustrations but FF is still a good aggregator for feeding blog widgets etc. and you can post multi-media there. Aren't those reasons to continue using?
  • webomatica · 6 months ago
    "don't let the door hit you on the way out..." Anyhow - both aspects
    you mention of FF are pretty cool. At one point last year, I was using
    SimplePie to pull FriendFeed into this blog. But I seem to be pulling
    back from social websites in general, to where all I really care to
    pull in is Twitter and Netflix, and possibly Google Reader and the
    Apple iTunes Store.

    One of my early notes about FriendFeed is that its value as an
    aggregator depends on how many social sites one uses - That's
    certainly true for me now... my list of sites I've quit in the past
    year is longer than the ones I keep using, so the value there, has
    gone down.

    And about multimedia attachments - this will sound quaint, but what's
    wrong with email?
  • Hutch Carpenter · 6 months ago
    Bummer Jason - I've liked our interactions on FriendFeed. Is your account now completely pulled? Well, I'll catch you on Twitter (* goes to see if we're following each other *) and your blog.
  • webomatica · 5 months ago
    Thanks. Definitely following on Twitter.