The Fluther Blog

We finished processing everyone’s avatar images. We’re still tidying up some of the default avatars, but we’re really excited about actually seeing the jellies in our collective. We may or may not have spent the afternoon looking at profile pages. Enjoy!

I swear, sometimes I wonder if there’s a hidden mic at Fluther HQ. Just this week people were talking about phoenyx’s nifty avatar enlarger, while others were embedding hidden messages in the tiny 40 x 40 avatars we use on the site. During all this (and completely unrelated to the shenanigans on Fluther), we’ve been […]

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 […]

First, we’d all like to share with you our big news. We started Fluther a few years ago: two guys who had never done a lick of web coding in their life, with a vision to create a space on the internet with heart and intelligence. Now, we’ve raised some money from some very, very […]

We’ve added a few small features in the last week or so. First, we’ve added sub-tabs when browsing all the topics, so you can see questions sorted by date, activity, and whether or not they’ve had any answers (poor little orphan questions). We also have added the first steps in integrating your Facebook account with […]

Who won? Watch to find out (the video cuts out but you can hear the winner): And what is the grand prize gift (which we customized for our grand prize winner)… After looking at the user’s profile, we’ve decided to get: A copy of Helvetica, the movie a $50 gift certificate to Amazon a Fluther […]

We’ve been testing this feature for a while, and we’re pleased to unveil the new ask process to everyone on the site. Overall, we’ve seen fewer first questions pushed to moderation and the ask process run more smoothly for users. The new data we’re collecting will give us a lot of room to play with […]

The Fluther Podcast #3: Paris from Fluther on Vimeo. More pictures on the vimeo page, as well.

We’ve updated YUI, so IE8 should work now without having to switch into compatibility mode. We’ve also fixed a long nagging bug where the @link dropdown menu wouldn’t work at the start of your second paragraph. Bigger features should be dropping later this week. a&b

As part of a little long-term project, we’ve wrapped up porting our custom Textile engine from python to javascript. What does that mean? It means that the previews you see will be much, much faster to render, and it means that during peak times, Fluther should be much more nimble. We’ve also added a few […]