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Duplicates in Lifestream
lifestream on SocialThing seems buggy. *Lots* of duplicate posts near the time I signed up.
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ok, so this happens already, though it's hard to tell how. What you need to do is click on the name of the accounts you wish to "combine". Rename them to the same name. (if one of them is Facebook, rename them even if it's the same name. That is, rename "John Doe" to "John Doe".) once you've done this, we will automatically "de-dupe" duplicate activities.
We are fully aware that this isn't intuitive enough and have already been working on a much improved interface for collapsing multiple accounts to one "real-life" person. In the meantime, at least the clunky interface works.
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Inappropriate?What type of duplicates are you talking about? Would you mind giving us an example? -
Inappropriate?Duplicates as in the exact same activity by the exact same account on the same service? Or duplicates across different services for the same real-life person?
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Inappropriate?The problem is when you have a friend in multiple services (eg. your friend Bob on Facebook and Twitter) and your friend Bob also uses Socialthing. Now you get two of all his updates. -
Inappropriate?ok, so this happens already, though it's hard to tell how. What you need to do is click on the name of the accounts you wish to "combine". Rename them to the same name. (if one of them is Facebook, rename them even if it's the same name. That is, rename "John Doe" to "John Doe".) once you've done this, we will automatically "de-dupe" duplicate activities.
We are fully aware that this isn't intuitive enough and have already been working on a much improved interface for collapsing multiple accounts to one "real-life" person. In the meantime, at least the clunky interface works.
The company says
this answers the question
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Inappropriate?Yes, that's it exactly. These were my twitter updates (by me) that appeared in the stream multiple times. I can't see them now (and thus point you t them) because the stream has moved as that point in time.
Is there a concept (current or planned) of an archive?
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Inappropriate?So if I post from twirl & *it* feeds to both twitter & pownce the exact same post, that post post gets pulled from both pownce & twitter into the stream? That makes sense & explains why I only saw some duplicates - I only posted some of those post from twirl.
But if that is the expected use case, shouldn't every one of my posts that cross-post to multiple services end up as dupes? For example, this post, sent from twirl last night:
John Minnihan Comparing SocialThing's UI to FriendFeed... well, there is no comparison. ST is better. FF could very well lose users because of this.
16 hours ago - Posted to Pownce and Twitter
That's how it appears in the stream - note the notation stating it was posted to Pownce & Twitter. This is clearly the expected behavior, right?
I’m feeling bloated & gassy.
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Inappropriate?jbminn, so what you're saying is that our de-duping worked on some of your cross-posts(such as the one you posted above), but not all? If that's the case, we would definitely like to know specifically the content of those posts so we can perfect our algorithm.
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Inappropriate?Awesome, thanks Ben, fixed my only real complaint about Socialthing!
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