I have been using ff ever since the closed beta last fall/winter. Even though I have been careful to not follow too many people (currently 42) in order to not drown in a flurry of feed items, I have missed a feature such as rooms all along.

Being able to organize discussions on a certain topic in a separate feed should help reduce clutter and provide for "time-efficient" reading.

Right now, you end up doing doing a whole lot of browsing and context switching when filtering news, technical posts, tech talks from among "funny" YouTube videos shared or "liked" by your contacts.

Btw, my ff account http://friendfeed.com/codesurgeon and a room I just set up http://friendfeed.com/rooms/electronic-gaming - feel free to join in.