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I was a user of the service since 2007, and it is really a shame, although since some years ago the site looked abandoned. I really liked it for several reason
by fgblanch 9y ago
I was a user of the service since 2007, and it is really a shame, although since some years ago the site looked abandoned.
I really liked it for several reasons
- it was one of the few web 2.0 services wave still alive (around 10 years)
- during this time it's been always useful, without any redesign nor relaunch (10 years with the same product!!)
- super simple design
- organic growth, it didn't have any pretension to grow. In fact it was very limited
- it was created by the japanese studio Tha.jp, you could feel japanese design in every detail
- although it's true that there was a lot of NSFW content (specially lately) it was a really serendipitous experience for design inspiration. It was so random that it had nothing to do with trends, that for example you can easily spot in other design inspiration sites such as Pinterest or dribbble
- there were no comments, just likes (much before Fb or IG)
- the recommendation algorithm it was very weird, no actual visual similarity, no the typical more liked pictures or anything easy to find pattern in it(my guess is that it was not very well coded ;) but at the same time it was perfect in terms of discovering new stuff, so it worked in that sense.
Well,as I said, it will be missed. Long live ffffound!
BTW: some years ago, predicting the service was about to close (because of inactivity and server issues) I wrote a small script to backup the account. I leave it here just in case is helpful for anyone.
https://github.com/fgblanch/ssssave https://github.com/fgblanch/ssssave