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This Used To Be My Playground

Source: TechCrunch

Oct 18, 2009

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Maybe you’ve read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed’s traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook. The stats don’t look good, as the site’s traffic may have plummeted as much as 30% following its peak just prior to the sale. But to anyone who has meaningfully used the site since its inception, you probably didn’t needs stats to tell you what should be obvious: FriendFeed has turned into a ghost town.

One of the most compelling things about FriendFeed has always been just how easy it was to have a conversation on the site. Someone posted an item, and within seconds, many had robust conversation threads updating in the speed of realtime beneath them. This also lead to the occasional trollish activity, but overall it was great.

But since the acquisition, those conversation threads have largely slowed to a crawl, or worse, don’t exist at all on many items. Previously, FriendFeed had committed to keeping the site running indefinitely despite their new jobs at Facebook. And it has remained running, but the site’s innovation, always its

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Comments (1)

Marcel,

Oct 18, 2009

Friendfeed ist immer noch das beste feedmanagementtool neben greader und hervorragend für kollaborationen und as hoc diskussionen geeignet. Das mit der zurückgegangenen aktivität stimmt aber. Da das in dtl eh nie so stark war, hat sich meine nutzung aber kaum geändert (friendfeed ist oft den halben tag nebenbei offen).