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i miss it too. the original crew was hilarious and smart. i'm working towards more personalization and localization, but it is a couple steps away, and lot of those steps are scaling, speed, and caching/invalidation.

the fb app has a different feel because of the high volume of posts. it is almost impossible to refind a post. we have notifications, but just not enough, and nothing as good as the old socialmoth.com. working towards it though.

the first week socialmoth on facebook was out, it doubled every 29 hours.

the most common feature request is "negative hearts" whatever that means.

oh i know what negative hearts are... haha

depending on your (my) mood - sometimes there's a post that needs to be unloved. but i think if you implemented that - most posts would be in the negative hearts.

unsolicited feature ideas to keep things relevant(knowing that scaling, etc are way more important):

let me subscribe to people, while still keeping things anonymous. some posts i really like, etc - that can be used to mix in a higher number of their other posts with my main consumption (if you're not already doing this).

similarly - let me ignore people. you could have some algorithm-fu to keep track if i hit ignore on the same person multiple times - for a real ignore, rather than just a bad post.

i also imagine an overhear.us facebook app is in the works? :)

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