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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #1: Five Ways To Use the Hide Function

  • Shey · 1 year ago
    Well covered Louis! No doubt the many aspects hide feature can help reduce the 'noise'.

    Personally I also am going to try and refrain from "liking" the same post more than once (i.e. the blog post, tweet, GR share, del.icio.us link, etc..). I'll join in on the discussions but I'm gonna try and be more selective with my "likes".
  • vdegeorge · 1 year ago
    Absolutely ESSENTIAL for a positive FriendFeed experience. Great guide, Louis.
  • Andy DeSoto · 1 year ago
  • Eric Berlin · 1 year ago
    Great job as always Louis.

    Semi-related: I've been wondering how friendfeed decides to provide users with friend-of-a-friend updates -- anyone know how that's done ?
  • smbeebe · 1 year ago
    Thank you for posting such a thorough review of the FriendFeed "Hide" feature set. I've learned lots of new FriendFeed hide feature tricks... thank you!
  • benmcdonald · 1 year ago
    Great tips, which should be very helpful.
  • TranceMist · 1 year ago
    Hey great pointers, thanks for posting this.
  • Richardatdell · 1 year ago
    Hi Louis,

    Really appreciate this post. Great help. Been getting started with Friend Feed and still finding it a little confusing...so keep 'em coming :-)
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    Richard, if you want some tips on friendfeed I have written two fairly good articles you may want to check out:
    http://www.scribkin.com/2008/06/04/the-6-best-w...
    http://www.scribkin.com/2008/05/28/yaaof-yet-an...

    Louis -- sorry about the advertising on your blog. In this case I honestly want help out the Dell guys.. I worked there for 9 years so I still feel a little kinship.
  • Richardatdell · 1 year ago
    Thanks J. Phil....been playing a bit more with it and strating to get it. Appreciate your help very much. checking out the links now....Im guessing Louis is ok with that :-)
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    He's cross-promoted this very article in the comments of one of my posts, so I am guessing he is. heh
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Phil,

    Advertise away. Scribkin is on my "approved" list for sure. Also, the power of Disqus means your replies are the best way to get connected.
  • endonend · 1 year ago
    Thanks for this. Was wondering exactly what Hide did... great guide!
  • maverickny · 1 year ago
    That's really helpful, thank you Louis. Do you know how to change the Friend Feed text colour by any chance? The grey is very hard to see.
  • jigarme · 1 year ago
    Very nice work! A complete guide to a 'must-have' feature!!! :)
  • Chris Nixon · 1 year ago
    Great tips Louis. Now....are there any FriendFeed apps that incorporate the 'hide' feature?
  • Jan Horna · 1 year ago
    Great tips .. a nice way of prioritizing!

    I wish I could do the same with RSS feeds (in Google Reader) and e-mails (Outlook and Gmail).
  • Steven E. Streight · 1 year ago
    Is there a way to Hide all Friends of Friends stuff, universally, and not go to each Friend and hide their Friends stuff?
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Yes, absolutely. If you see the above graphic, one option says, "Hide all stuff from friends-of-friends". That'll block all friends of a friend, not just one person's.
  • Vasudev Ram · 1 year ago
    Yes, I agree with the others - these are quite useful tips - should help reduce the firehose effect :).
    Thanks,
    Vasudev
  • Paul Papadimitriou · 10 months ago
    Thank you for all these very useful tips, helping setting some best practices on FriendFeed. The noise-to-signal becomes more manageable.
  • MatthewMiddle · 7 months ago
    This was very helpful in getting rid of all the lockergnome coupon posts. Thank you Louis Gray, thank you.
  • MitchWagner · 1 year ago
    Nice tips, Louis!
  • rob · 1 year ago
    Thanks... great post. :)