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FriendFeed
FriendFeed logo
FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online
FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online
URL https://friendfeed.com/
Status Closing
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
Project source friendfeed-discovery
Project tracker friendfeed
IRC channel #humancentifeed (on hackint)

FriendFeed aggregates RSS data for a user from the latest hip sites and puts it all in one place. On 2009-08-10, it was announced that FriendFeed had been acquired by Facebook.

Vital Signs

Posted by Benjamin on Monday, March 09, 2015

Dear FriendFeed community,

We wanted to let you know that FriendFeed will be shutting down soon. We've been maintaining the service since we joined Facebook five years ago, but the number of people using FriendFeed has been steadily declining and the community is now just a fraction of what it once was. Given this, we've decided that it's time to start winding things down.

Beginning today, we will no longer accept new signups. You will be able to view your posts, messages, and photos until April 9th. On April 9th, we'll be shutting down FriendFeed and it will no longer be available.

We want to thank you all for being such a terrific and enthusiastic community. We're proud of what we built so many years ago, and we recognize that it would have never been possible without your support.

- The FriendFeed team[1]

Discovery ideas

Archiving

ArchiveTeam

It got thrown into ArchiveBot (job ident 7v7q0bcx27e43a527mdhd765f). A Warrior project might pop up depending on how well ArchiveBot crawls it. UPDATE: Warrior project popped up.

Other efforts

ArchiveTeam has been informed that a group of FriendFeed users, led by user Jimminy is working on exporting FriendFeed accounts (even private ones) of those who go to his site and submit their user name and API key. The archive would be hosted by him and would be accessible and browsable with the username and key.

Using API keys, one is also able to download pages with index higher than 100, which is otherwise not possible.

Many users are migrating to the Italian FriendFeed clone project frenf.it.

Discussion: http://friendfeed.com/zeigen/20c8cd8b/testing-waters-of-frenf-it-italian-friendfeed

ArchiveTeam tries to cooperate with this group. What ArchiveTeam basically could make use of are IDs of public feeds/groups, and possibly the API functionality allowing browsing feeds of more than 100 pages.

How can I help?

If you have, or know about, a public feed/group (profile/room) and want to make sure it will be saved by ArchiveTeam, and even help them discover new accounts as they would scrape that, let us know. For example, comment on this thread: http://friendfeed.com/friendfeed-feedback/60b14903/archive-team-needs-your-help-to-find-and-spider (preferred way). Alternatively, you can reach us in IRC channel #humancentifeed on EFNet.

Running a Warrior

You can start up a Warrior and there select FriendFeed Discovery. (If you don't really care what you are archiving, select ArchiveTeam's Choice instead, as at some points ArchiveTeam may priorize another project.)

Note: keep an eye on the Warrior in case of this project. For some yet unknown reason, the Warrior tends to hang up sometimes. In this case please reboot it.

Running the script manually

If you use Linux and you're a bit familiar with it, you can try running the script directly.

The instructions can be found at github.com/ArchiveTeam/friendfeed-discovery.

Some additional information
Don't forget to replace YOURNICKHERE with your nickname.

The number after --concurrent determines how many threads run at the same time. You can increase this number if your resources (RAM, CPU, bandwidth) are sufficient. However, if you constantly see messages about rate limiting, there is no need to increase the concurrency.

If you want to stop the script, please do it gracefully if possible. To do so, create an empty file named STOP in the folder of the script (terminal command: touch STOP). The script finishes the current item(s) and stops only after that. (If you kill the script immediately, the items get broken, and they will need to be reassigned to another user.) – Before starting the script again, don't forget to remove the STOP file.

If you see "Project code is out of date", kill the script, go to its folder (cd friendfeed-discovery) and issue git pull https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/friendfeed-discovery. After the updating has finished, re-launch the script.

Note: Running the script with quite high concurrency it's possible that you'll get banned for like 10-15 minutes. In such case please wait a bit and then you can restart again, with some lowered concurrency.

Donating to the Internet Archive

Content downloaded by the ArchiveTeam will be uploaded to the Internet Archive, where it will be stored and be available – hopefully – forever. However, storing it costs thousands of dollars in the long run. So, if you can afford, please consider donating to the Internet Archive, so that this piece of history can be kept for us all. http://archive.org/donate

Do you like our cause?

If you want to help in other projects, want to learn more about ArchiveTeam, or even help in development in general, navigate to the Main Page of this wiki, from there you can reach a lot of information. The Team consists of volunteers working on the projects in their free time, so helping hands (and resources) are always welcome.

References