April 9 FriendFeed will be closed

All site content will disappear in four weeks.

The official blog FriendFeed published a post , which says that the service will cease to exist April 9, 2015. The reason for this is simple - almost no one uses the site. Since the post was published (March 9), registration has been closed on the site. While users can view their messages, correspondence and photos, but after April 9, the site will become unavailable.

Five years ago, Facebook was bought by FriendFeed, and since then the number of users has gradually decreased. The size of the community and its activity have decreased only to a part of the past, and the validity of the continued functioning of the site has disappeared. Members of the Russian FriendFid segment are actively discussing this news and are trying to do something . There may be a clone with the deployment of backup site content.

Four former Google employees founded FriendFeed in October 2007 as an aggregator of posts from various social networking services, blogs, and microblogging. It was one of the first websites with feeds updated in real time. August 10, 2009 an agreement was reached on the purchase of the service by Facebook. At that time, 12 people worked on FriendFeed. The acquisition price, by today's standards, seems ridiculous - $ 15 million in cash and 32.5 million Facebook shares, but then these numbers seemed large. For comparison: Instagram, another acquisition of Mark Zuckerberg’s company, cost a billion dollars. WhatsApp cost 19 billion.

After the purchase, the site began to stagnate, existing only due to the already formed correct user base, which did not go away, despite the presence of more attractive analogues. The FriendFida team has joined the Facebook employees, and the acquisition itself has left a mark on the development of the older brother. For example, it is believed that the blue social network borrowed the Like / “I like” button from the purchased aggregator. The idea of ​​showing not only the newest, but also interesting posts in the feed is also familiar to Friendsfid users.