The declining number of users cannot possibly be the reason for the shutting down of FriendFeed.
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There's no revenue from it. It would have been more honest to say "we don't want to be bothered anymore", and this is understandable if very sad.
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It shouldn't even be a problem with high hardware / bandwidth costs. If this were the case, the people in Facebook could have decided to close friendfeed-media.com which is the real space hog...
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The latest subscribers had a lot of problems. Maybe FF reached some hardcoded limit and they decided to shut it down before everything goes FUBAR
- Angelo Ghigi
I would guess that there are few in Facebook that know how FF works and those that do are either moving on or tired of kicking it back to life.
- CW
I'm thinking about the post on Quora. "At some point, everyone who knows how to bring the service back up will have left Facebook, something will go wrong, and the servers just won't come back. And then a horde of angry Turkish people will yell at me about it on Twitter, and we will all remember the small but well-loved site it was." It didn't go that way, it seems.
- naltro
There are only 3 individuals inside of Facebook that deal with Friendfeed. So shutting it down makes sense if any of them decided to move on.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
sì, ma dai. get a life.
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Facebook wants to herd FF users to Facebook----they are losing 'active' users --people who visit their facebook every day----and to keep revenue up Facebook depends on users clicking on the ads. FF has some uniqueness that is worth money if they wanted to make it profiting making---but Facebook is the one that went 'public' with stock offering and made a ton of money off their ip offering so they are going to do whaetver is necessary to draw more active users for revenue.
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