You now get FriendFeed direct messages (and replies to direct messages) via email. You can also comment simply by replying via email.
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This is the first of a handful of direct message and email enhancements we have lined up - feedback is appreciated!
- Bret Taylor
woott
- Tyler (Chacha)
Great job, Tudor! (Tudor did all the hard work on this one: http://beta.friendfeed.com/tudor)
- Bret Taylor
nice work!
- Cee Bee
I love u guys :D
- Johnny
So.. how?
- Rochelle
Rochelle: if someone sends you a direct message (http://beta.friendfeed.com/filter...) or replies to a direct message you send, you will get an email, and you can reply by email as well.
- Bret Taylor
Nice!
- AJ Kohn
Bret, so there's no option to turn it off?
- Rochelle
Rochelle: there is an unsubscribe link on every email, or you can go here: http://friendfeed.com/account...
- Bret Taylor
NICE!!!!
- FFing Enigma
That's awesome!
- Parth Awasthi
Awesome! now we can also do it by SMS right? (not IM)
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Bret, how do you get to that URL if it's not typed in directly? Where is the account setting?
- Rochelle
I was wondering what happens when I send a DM to someone who doesn't use beta. I guess after today they will get an email?
- Laura Norvig
Rochelle: at the bottom of every email that you get, there is a link - "Unsubscribe from FriendFeed mail" - that takes you to the link that Bret posted.
- Tudor Bosman
I'm stunned. Cool.
- Micah
Tudor, there should be a link in the settings to change that. You shouldn't have to get an email to get a link to it.
- Rochelle
seems to work well. jut tested it out with someone
- Cee Bee
Rochelle, there will be, once we convert the settings page to the new UI, possibly before that.
- Tudor Bosman
Rochelle: the email settings are also at https://friendfeed.com/account..., but the Beta is catching up with the account settings UI still. It will be in there imminently, just rolling things out progressively.
- Bret Taylor
Okay, excellent. Thanks for the update!
- Rochelle
Sweet!
- Michael Fidler
Awesome!
- Robert Scoble
Nicely done, Tudor.
- Anne Bouey
If an entry is sent directly to you and as well as other feeds will it come via email? This can be a little ambiguous in my opinion with the potential for people to respond to direct messages that aren't private. I think its a great step though!
- Frankie Warren
Why can't Twitter do this? Oh, yeah, their engineers suck.
- Robert Scoble
nice
- mike "glemak" dunn
Bindu: this is correct. DMs would only show up in your feed (and in the "Direct messages" filter).
- Tudor Bosman
>> indicates that it is a DM. All DMs are private (unless cross-posted to a public feed, or to public rooms).
- Tudor Bosman
I posted a DM to a room ... that's the same as doing a post really, isn't it? I think it disappeared from my DM list.
- Laura Norvig
Yes, a "DM" to a room is the same as a post. Rather, the other way around: if you "post" to another user, we call that a DM.
- Tudor Bosman
Bindu: we've had this (and "a handful of direct message and email enhancements") working internally in some form or another for about 2 weeks.
- Tudor Bosman
Ahsan: Let's say that you receive a message from me. You can look at the list of recipients. If it says "Tudor Bosman to you", it's private. If it says "to you, Tudor's feed, and FriendFeed Feedback", it's not (it's crossposted to my (public) feed and to the (public) FriendFeed Feedback room).
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor: i guess it's similar to checking if people were cc'd on an email... but at the same time i think the potential to mess up is higher. especially since the feed paradigm takes some getting used to in the first place.
- Frankie Warren
Mark: not right now. (The message isn't formatted in a way suitable for 140 characters...)
- Tudor Bosman
Frankie: agreed. We may change the way locks and ">>" are displayed to reduce some of the confusion.
- Tudor Bosman
Mark: SMS is not email. Twitter's DM sucks compared to friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Excellent - I depend on email notifications for DMs from Twitter. Great to see it here.
- Hutch Carpenter
Great! Thanks Brent!
- AJ Batac
Thanks for all the love! If you notice any bugs (especially related to replying by email -- missing, incomplete, or incorrectly formatted comments) please let us know by forwarding a few affected messages (including full headers, if possible) to [email protected]. Thanks!
- Tudor Bosman
Really good feature for email api, now it's true usable. Thank you.
- Вашингтонский Обком
OK... so the structure of the email address is 'ignore.<username>@friendfeed.com'. Does this mean in the future I will be able to DM someone by emailing something like 'message.<username>@friendfeed.com'?
- Johnny
Johnny: I wouldn't know :)
- Tudor Bosman
Neat.. way to go, Tudor!
- Balaji Raghavan
Thank you! Any plans to add it to the FF Notification tool?
- Josh Haley
Bret, thanks! And Mark, as a workaround re: wanting to get DMs via SMS, it's pretty easy to set a forwarding filter on one's e-mail to [number]@tmomail.net or whatever your carrier's SMS gateway is. Okay, that's minorly geeky, but IMHO not much of a hurdle at all :)
- Adam Lasnik
You can configure multiple email addresses on your account page (http://friendfeed.com/account/); for now, we'll send mail to the one you designate as "primary". You can set [number]@tmomail.net as the primary address and we'll happily send mail to it, which should be delivered as SMS; however, the email messages that we sent won't be properly formatted or clipped to 140 characters, so they may look ugly or get split over multiple SMS messages (and so you may get charged more if you pay per use).
- Tudor Bosman
Adam that is exactly what i did. its very easy
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Thanks again Tudor!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Now I just have to solve the problem that nobody cares about me enough to send me direct messages.
- Bryce Roney
Bryce++ LOL
- Rahsheen
This feature really rocks. I'm glad it's built into the system here instead of having to be provided by a 3rd party as is is on twitter.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
wow, finally!
- orie
Well done FF!! DM to a room can be really useful! Bryce LoL, Scoble Rotfl..
- CantorJF
All sounds good, Bret. Next up IM alerts please. ;-) I'm trying to cut down on email. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
amazing!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Great news. I admire your profession on e-mails.
- Alp
+1 that the lock and >> icons need a bunch of work (rethought?). The emailing is a very nice thing to have, though. But could we also possibly turn it off please? :)
- Karl Knechtel
Wow. VERY cool!
- Iain Baker
New to Friendfeed but this looks like a great feature! Thanks
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