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Convert Facebook newsfeed into Reddit-style trending stories

9 points by usaif 13y ago

usaif 13y ago
Do you know that around 50% of your friends' updates are never seen by you? Why: Stories are buried deep in your newsfeed; facebook also only shows stories of the friends who regularly interact with you on facebook. Additback digs deep in your newsfeed to find the most interesting stories No more endless scrolling of your newsfeed to find interesting post by your friends. Get a ranked list of trending stories every couple of hours
djvickx 13y ago
oh wow... thats really nice... I just love the reddit-style trending stories and now i can get it on facebook... you rock :)
burhanrasool 13y ago
pretty cool
hackersocial2 13y ago
Looks interesting. Weary about sharing my data
shahroz1991 13y ago
Looking forward to it .
blackdivine 13y ago
This is a bold step, I must say, Facebook is known to raise issues with app that provide something that Facebook is already providing but in a better way.
Toluene 13y ago
It is something that someone found all these interesting stories and presented them to you in a simple ranked list.
adilsaleem 13y ago
Interesting concept, the ranking is definitely different from that of Facebook, its cool to get a different view of the same feed
- blackdivine 13y ago
  Yes, that's what we are striving for. Not only a different but a BETTER view
khanadnan 13y ago
Looks interesting.
wonderer007 13y ago
Concept looking cool, looking to install
deleted 13y ago
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ksaleem 13y ago
Ive been actually missing real news e.g. birthday, career moves, events etc on Facebook's normal feed - if this can figure out the stories I missed, it'll be good. I ll be using it definitely
hsnbpn 13y ago
been kinda thinking of this kind of thing for fb from a long time. frineds posts are ranked according to hotness. good to see it finally.
usman_munir 13y ago
I like this, mind telling what technology you are using? or an overview of how things are being done behind the scenes?
danso 13y ago
the first premise of this app is flawed: > Around 50% of the updates by your friends are never seen by you Well yes...I suspect that's the same ratio of HN posts that are never read....because no one liked/upvoted them...and if thhe algorithms are right, that's a good thing. I'm not saying there isn't room for a new way to rank posts (in either FB or HN)...but it's a good thing to not see 100% of all the drek that gets posted to your news feed. * edit: What would be useful is to see a comparison of how the OP's rendition of the feed compares to the status quo. I've been mostly satisfied with FB (though how do you really know how good it could be?) two of my best friends recently got married. Their friends are also close friends of mine. Theoretically, my newsfeed should be absolutely swamped with notes and photos of their wedding, and a constant circlejerk of likes and comments (I've posted scores of photos and tagged them myself, which creates a mass of FB notifications in itself)...but I've been pleasantly surprised to see that FB has still kept up an interesting variety in my feed.
- blackdivine 13y ago
  I totally agree, that it's a good thing not to see 100% of posts from either HN or FB But the updates that you miss are also some which have a lot of likes/shares/comments on FB. That's what we do, we don't dig out crap posts, but only those posts that outrank others. So we have found out that you also miss those high ranked posts, almost as much as 50%
  - usaif 13y ago
    You need to take a look at Facebook's EdgeRank and how this circumvents it: http://mashable.com/2013/05/07/facebook-edgerank-infographic/ http://mashable.com/2013/05/07/facebook-edgerank-infographic...
sohailabd 13y ago
brilliant idea!
hassan437 13y ago
Awsome Idea. Most of the time i missed my friends stories. Additback help me alot to view those.
sameershahzad 13y ago
its awesome
iibtisam 13y ago
The missing story part is amazing... I found many missing stories ... Is Facebook really hides my Friend's posts
bilalbutt 13y ago
A new idea. Fresh concept
gbee 13y ago
Awesome
gbee 13y ago
Amazing Mannnnnnn !
mirzaumar 13y ago
Its Great initiative
usaif 13y ago
The app basically goes around the facebook EdgeRank algo and finds trending stories -- as opposed to only showing the stories from friends with whom you have a good edgeRank.
hackersocial2 13y ago
Facebook has an EdgeRank and you can bypass it? Wow -- didn't know this.
Esifer 13y ago
Is it me or there is serious astroturfing going on in this thread? There are bunch of new accounts with no submissions, 1 comment and 1 karma posting one-liners like:"Awesome","Pretty cool", "Looks interesting"... Just check last 10 accounts on bottom of this thread.
badar1981 13y ago
really great. now, user can avoid unwanted and boring posts. As one of the user mentioned, it will be interesting to see how FB will react to this.
fmax30 13y ago
Meh, probably the author should not have categorically asked everyone at plan9 (an incubator he heads) to up-vote this story and make comment like awesome , cool etc . Umar Saif probably thought that he could use his position of power to get all the up-votes he want , what he didn't know was that HN has specific filter to counter the just the karma gathering activities like this one.
- danso 13y ago
  Yeah I hesitated to even comment on this story, knowing it would be flagged almost immediately. How could someone put a bunch of time into an app related to social ranking and networking and not be savvier at astroturfing?

9 points by usaif 13y ago

usaif 13y ago

Do you know that around 50% of your friends' updates are never seen by you? Why: Stories are buried deep in your newsfeed; facebook also only shows stories of the friends who regularly interact with you on facebook. Additback digs deep in your newsfeed to find the most interesting stories No more endless scrolling of your newsfeed to find interesting post by your friends. Get a ranked list of trending stories every couple of hours

djvickx 13y ago

oh wow... thats really nice... I just love the reddit-style trending stories and now i can get it on facebook... you rock :)

burhanrasool 13y ago

pretty cool

hackersocial2 13y ago

Looks interesting. Weary about sharing my data

shahroz1991 13y ago

Looking forward to it .

blackdivine 13y ago

This is a bold step, I must say, Facebook is known to raise issues with app that provide something that Facebook is already providing but in a better way.

Toluene 13y ago

It is something that someone found all these interesting stories and presented them to you in a simple ranked list.

adilsaleem 13y ago

Interesting concept, the ranking is definitely different from that of Facebook, its cool to get a different view of the same feed

blackdivine 13y ago
Yes, that's what we are striving for. Not only a different but a BETTER view

khanadnan 13y ago

Looks interesting.

wonderer007 13y ago

Concept looking cool, looking to install

deleted 13y ago

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ksaleem 13y ago

Ive been actually missing real news e.g. birthday, career moves, events etc on Facebook's normal feed - if this can figure out the stories I missed, it'll be good. I ll be using it definitely

hsnbpn 13y ago

been kinda thinking of this kind of thing for fb from a long time. frineds posts are ranked according to hotness. good to see it finally.

usman_munir 13y ago

I like this, mind telling what technology you are using? or an overview of how things are being done behind the scenes?

danso 13y ago

the first premise of this app is flawed: > Around 50% of the updates by your friends are never seen by you Well yes...I suspect that's the same ratio of HN posts that are never read....because no one liked/upvoted them...and if thhe algorithms are right, that's a good thing. I'm not saying there isn't room for a new way to rank posts (in either FB or HN)...but it's a good thing to not see 100% of all the drek that gets posted to your news feed. * edit: What would be useful is to see a comparison of how the OP's rendition of the feed compares to the status quo. I've been mostly satisfied with FB (though how do you really know how good it could be?) two of my best friends recently got married. Their friends are also close friends of mine. Theoretically, my newsfeed should be absolutely swamped with notes and photos of their wedding, and a constant circlejerk of likes and comments (I've posted scores of photos and tagged them myself, which creates a mass of FB notifications in itself)...but I've been pleasantly surprised to see that FB has still kept up an interesting variety in my feed.

blackdivine 13y ago
I totally agree, that it's a good thing not to see 100% of posts from either HN or FB But the updates that you miss are also some which have a lot of likes/shares/comments on FB. That's what we do, we don't dig out crap posts, but only those posts that outrank others. So we have found out that you also miss those high ranked posts, almost as much as 50%
- usaif 13y ago
  You need to take a look at Facebook's EdgeRank and how this circumvents it: http://mashable.com/2013/05/07/facebook-edgerank-infographic/ http://mashable.com/2013/05/07/facebook-edgerank-infographic...

sohailabd 13y ago

brilliant idea!

hassan437 13y ago

Awsome Idea. Most of the time i missed my friends stories. Additback help me alot to view those.

sameershahzad 13y ago

its awesome

iibtisam 13y ago

The missing story part is amazing... I found many missing stories ... Is Facebook really hides my Friend's posts

bilalbutt 13y ago

A new idea. Fresh concept

gbee 13y ago

Awesome

gbee 13y ago

Amazing Mannnnnnn !

mirzaumar 13y ago

Its Great initiative

usaif 13y ago

The app basically goes around the facebook EdgeRank algo and finds trending stories -- as opposed to only showing the stories from friends with whom you have a good edgeRank.

hackersocial2 13y ago

Facebook has an EdgeRank and you can bypass it? Wow -- didn't know this.

Esifer 13y ago

Is it me or there is serious astroturfing going on in this thread? There are bunch of new accounts with no submissions, 1 comment and 1 karma posting one-liners like:"Awesome","Pretty cool", "Looks interesting"... Just check last 10 accounts on bottom of this thread.

badar1981 13y ago

really great. now, user can avoid unwanted and boring posts. As one of the user mentioned, it will be interesting to see how FB will react to this.

fmax30 13y ago

Meh, probably the author should not have categorically asked everyone at plan9 (an incubator he heads) to up-vote this story and make comment like awesome , cool etc . Umar Saif probably thought that he could use his position of power to get all the up-votes he want , what he didn't know was that HN has specific filter to counter the just the karma gathering activities like this one.

danso 13y ago
Yeah I hesitated to even comment on this story, knowing it would be flagged almost immediately. How could someone put a bunch of time into an app related to social ranking and networking and not be savvier at astroturfing?