Mmh, no... disabling f-of-f by default is not a wise choice. Giving that this is a FrFe "powerful" feature, how do you will discover it? Reading a doc? mmmh... I'm very careful with adding friends, and by now I've been not disturbed by noise. When (if) I will, the I'll search a way to DISABLE the f-of-f feature.
Rishabh Mishra (possible248)
· 1 year ago
Yes, many people on FriendFeed have told me that they really like the friend-of-friend feature. The reason I said that it should be disabled by default is that many average users are currently skeptical of FriendFeed, so FriendFeed has to exceed the expectations of these average users, and not be too noisy.
Considering that the current crowd at FriendFeed is technically capable enough to be able to find the feature and enable it if it was disabled. I would think that there would be users that give up before finding how to disable friend-of-friend, if it were enabled by default, like now.
The current way of disabling friend-of-friend, by using the "hide" link and then clicking "See options for hiding other items like this" to get to the option where you can hide friend-of-friend. That isn't obvious to the average user, and it's easier just to give up FriendFeed than to try to reduce the noise that comes through.
One alternative suggestion that I really like is from Tsega Dinka saying that there should be a slider that lets you select how much noise you will allow.
cherbert15
· 1 year ago
How does one disable friend of friend?
Rishabh Mishra (possible248)
· 1 year ago
Currently, you have to "hide" an item from a friend of friend. After hiding that item, you'll see a link titled "See options for hiding other items like this". Click on that link, and one of the options will be to hide all friend of friend entries.
jokeyxero
· 1 year ago
I'm thinking that f-of-f doesn't need to be disabled by default. Maybe it should be treated special and be part of the account setup process. "Do you want to see posts by friends of your friends? Yes | No (You can turn it back on later by "unhiding" it)"
I think the real problem is that the world doesn't know/understand/"get-it" with RSS yet, so adding more services is just as important. I made a comment about LiveJournal users not wanting to switch before, but now that I think about it, most people are really on LJ because of their Friends page, then they have to pay to get a random RSS feed put in. If FF adds LJ support and includes an wizard for importing your LJ friends as imaginary friends then they'd start getting big much quicker.
Rishabh Mishra (possible248)
· 1 year ago
Yes, many people have suggested that friend-of-friend be part of the signup process.
Your insight about LiveJournal is interesting. I'm not a LiveJournal user, so I wouldn't know much about it.
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Considering that the current crowd at FriendFeed is technically capable enough to be able to find the feature and enable it if it was disabled. I would think that there would be users that give up before finding how to disable friend-of-friend, if it were enabled by default, like now.
The current way of disabling friend-of-friend, by using the "hide" link and then clicking "See options for hiding other items like this" to get to the option where you can hide friend-of-friend. That isn't obvious to the average user, and it's easier just to give up FriendFeed than to try to reduce the noise that comes through.
One alternative suggestion that I really like is from Tsega Dinka saying that there should be a slider that lets you select how much noise you will allow.
I think the real problem is that the world doesn't know/understand/"get-it" with RSS yet, so adding more services is just as important. I made a comment about LiveJournal users not wanting to switch before, but now that I think about it, most people are really on LJ because of their Friends page, then they have to pay to get a random RSS feed put in. If FF adds LJ support and includes an wizard for importing your LJ friends as imaginary friends then they'd start getting big much quicker.
Your insight about LiveJournal is interesting. I'm not a LiveJournal user, so I wouldn't know much about it.