diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2870: Make it easier to retrieve and invite "Facebook friends"
Author: sofian
Created: 2012-02-11 23:29:19+00:00
State: open

The Facebook friends panel is close to useless. There are several issues with it:
1. It lists **all* the FB friends one after the other in an endless list
2. When you scroll down there's a page menu "1 2 3 4 5 6 ... " that appears (which could be helpful to reach my friends whose name starts with Z) but it is quickly replaced by a loading icon, rendering it useless.
3. The "Not yet on diaspora" notice doesn't lead to a link/pop-up window to invite people

There should at least be an autocomplete search field to retrieve someone. Furthermore, there should be a link to quickly invite or or several people from Facebook. Actually, I wonder why the Diaspora* application for Facebook doesn't have a feature to group invite people (maybe it's not possible).

This issue probably needs to be discussed and separated in many tasks but I wanted to let it out.