"Find Friends" for FB has been down for 2 days?

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  thedavidmcguire · Member · May 3, 2015 at 1:06 am

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  I’ve logged in from my laptop, pc and phone. Additionally a friend is having the same issue. When is this going to be resolved??

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  siobhyb · Member · May 5, 2015 at 1:00 pm

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  Hi David.

  The Friend Finder has been deprecated and it shouldn’t have been possible for you to access that tool. Sorry about that confusion! Can you let me know how you were accessing the tool? I’ll ask our team to create redirect for future visitors.

  If you’re looking for ways to connect with your friends over social networks and discover new blogs, then we have some alternative ways for you to do so detailed here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/connect/

  Let me know if you have any questions on any of that. I’ll be happy to help in any way I can.

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  annewright52 · Member · Jun 13, 2015 at 1:36 pm

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  Under the ‘Reader’ menu there is a heading ‘Discover’ and then a link to ‘Find Friends’ but it just goes to my profile page.

  Is there a way you can search for friends using your email address book?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 13, 2015 at 3:23 pm

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  @siobhyb
  This post needs to be updated – Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

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  tominsocal · Member · Jun 17, 2015 at 6:32 am

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  @siobhyb

  Under the ‘Reader’ menu there is a heading ‘Discover’ and then a link to ‘Find Friends’ but it just goes to my profile page.

  Is there a way you can search for friends using your email address book? This use to work in the recent past, but now the link from the Reader page is missing and the link from the Admin page under Discover goes to my profile page, not to find friends. Please advise!

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  siobhyb · Member · Jun 22, 2015 at 8:04 pm

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  Apologies for the delay in reply here, and thanks for making us aware of the places we need to update/remove links to Find Friends. I’ve fed this information back to the team.

  @annewright52, @tominsocal: The Friend Finder has been deprecated and it’s not possible to find your friend’s blogs based on their email address. An alternative could be for you to use your friends’ email addresses and invite them to follow your blog:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-follow-your-blog

  Let me know if you have any questions around that.