Just published this service to see how the idea works. Any feedback is more than welcome!

For this purpose you can create a custom list of your friends you really want to follow. Update types can be filtered on list pages, for example show only status updates and photos, but no games, comments, etc.

Then bookmark the url of the list page (like https://www.facebook.com/lists/{list-id} ), and use it instead of the default homepage. I use this method for years and it seems much more usable this way.

If this really does work like you describe, it's exactly what I've wanted from Facebook for the last few years. Thank you!

I want to see them all. Can you do that and does it still work?

It works, but you have to create it manually. Just created a list of 500+ friends, needed about 5 minutes to repeatedly click on suggested members...

For this purpose I wrote a script which is run every minute by cron.

It checks if current IP has been changed since last run, and if yes, sends an API request to my VPS provider to update a DNS A record with the new value.

Here is a sample script with Linode and DigitalOcean API calls: https://gist.github.com/Hangya/10026019