They took it away with the last rollout. I saw an article last week saying they weren't bringing it back, and the only way to get rid of it is to click the x in your own newsfeed, which takes forever. I can't seem to find the article right now, though.

Ok so I can go make the official complaint then. Did the article say why they removed this feature? It seems strange to increase some privacy settings and then remove others in the same rollout. Especially if the ones removed allow for more spam.

I don't recall the exact reason, but the creator said something about if he'd known how Facebook would evolve, he would have made everyone's profiles public from the beginning. I've been a member since 2004, and I miss how private it used to be, without everyone and their mother cultivating farms and sending hearts and crap.

My friend had this posted as her status, I did what it said, and it worked. Everyone's updates appear to be back on my news feed (without an hour gap in between!)

FB is blocking all your friends News Feeds, except the 250 they choose. To undo: click HOME, from there scroll down to bottom of the page choose "edit options" (edit options is on the right, "older posts" on the left). Select News feed settings. Reset 250 to 5,000 FBs max friend limit. Then your feed should work again!

That happened with the last change - it's actually nothing new. Mine is still set at 5000, it wasn't reset back to 250 (I just checked). I don't think that's why the news feed is effed up. You just have to refresh a couple times and you'll see everything.