Fluther is a free Q&A collective that specializes in getting
fast answers from the right people. Check it out!
We’re excited to announce the new, live community feed — we’ve been playing around with it for the last week and it’s proven to be really exciting to show us where the action is happening on the site — from celebrating great questions to showing us who has entered the fabled 10K mansion, we hope you enjoy it as much as we are.
There also may or may not be tie-ins with the awards system, as well, so keep tuned as we release a new batch of them…
Neat! Thanks!
It’s awesome!!!
@EP It only shows GA that are 30 seconds new. We’ll probably tweak things.
@ EmpressPixie We’re still playing with that. Right now the Community Feed only shows GAs that are less than 30 seconds old, otherwise it would overwhelm everything else. But we liked have some in there so everyone can feel how much activity there is.
Fabulous, fabulous. 🙂
@andrew beat me to it.
I like this modification, for a change.
How about randomizing or refreshing the “Siblings” from time to time instead of always having the same ones? When you run out of other things to do, of course.
Daddy like.
@Bendrew: In that case, it’s fantastic! I love it!
Kickass!
I like it how I can stalk people I don’t have on my fluther.
Wow, I’m already obsessed with this thing. Great work, it’s awesome.
Again, daddy like.
love it.
question: will there be a feature for it in the iphone app?
MEE LIKEY
I liked it until it started giving me a complex. All these people being added to fluthers, willy nilly. Now I’m going to be up all night staring at the live feed, waiting for my turn to shine!
I actually find it a bit annoying and “TMI” but I can ignore it.
Erm, it reminds me of the new Facebook “news feed”, which I hate. The jury is still out, for me.
Looks interesting. I agree, MissAusten. I’m not in there, either. 🙁
I like it. I know you guys have been working on this (and wanting it) forever, so GREAT JOB! Seriously.
I’m not really feeling it. I’m not big on new features that don’t have a practical, utility based purpose. This just seems distracting.
Same as the awards, not mind blowing, but well executed. Good job.
jbfletcherfan, I just saw you right at the top! hooray!
Ziggy zaggy!
I’m not sure I like it. I don’t think I need to know every GA/GQ or when someone is added to someone’s Fluther, etc. If it’s going to stay, any way it can be put below the lurve box?
I’m with Allie, below the lurve box might be better.
OMFG, I love this.
I agree with Allie.
This is a cool feature. I love that we can track people’s major lurve moments through this!
Not particularly useful. Seeing which comments get GA’s is kind of cool, but everything else is rather pointless. I really don’t care if ::insert user name:: was added to a a fluther.
I like the fact that it shows when new people join, that’s pretty cool. Showing great answers and stuff like that, not sure if I like that or not. Seems a waste of bandwidth. Good when it shows folks have reached certain K levels, tho.
I third the “below the lurve box” notion.
I made a quick tutorial on removing it with Firefox, Greasemonkey, and Platypus.
http://www.weshouldbedancing.com/fluther/community.mov
I love the idea. The placement just bothers me.
I should add that I would love to see it ass a full screen page. Like it could present the answer the GA was given for too. And maybe even the question too.
Maybe something like http://cursebird.com/ That does a obvious live update.
The feed told me I got a Pilgrim award and I still don’t know what its for. Those Atlantis awards are a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Please let us opt out of this. I don’t have to look at questions if I think they are dumb. Why do you force upon me a list of dumb?
So by commenting on here I get live feed??? Sorry I’m no good at this sort of thing!!
It looks like they just put the Lurve on the top. Well played sirs. This is much better.
Way to go guys. great new feature!
Bucky asked already.. but will this be a feature on the iphone app?
Is the feature gone now? I don’t see it any longer. It was starting to grow on me.
gah! It’s back…never mind.
We had taken it down for a little bit because we were rerunning some awards scripts and it was flooding the feed.
@johnpowell Already planned, and in the works.
Maybe a day is long enough for 10k announcements?
I don’t see it. And I’m not using the iPhone version of it.
Yay, it moved!
After testing the thing out, I’m really quite pleased with it. It allows me to see when people have received a GQ, and it draws me to whatever question they could’ve asked (I have a curious heart). Also, it allows me to see who has joined the collective and who has been added to a Fluther (“Hmm.. Why are they being added? What did they do? I’d better go check them out”).
I think these new features are cute but a bit annoying. If you want to improve the site, find ways of organizing and searching for questions by multiple criteria, or perhaps consider forming different types of forums.
I like it! Except for the part where it features Great Answers which I think kind of makes it less useful. How many GAs does it take to show up on the feed?