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We’ve added a new setting so you can control who sees your list of answers on your profile. We’ve also changed up the RSS and twitter feeds to raise the quality of list of questions, as well as include attribution to the users who ask them (since mysteriously, questions still are showing up on another […]
Voilà Paris 3:15 pmIf you hadn’t pieced together from all my questions about Paris and electricity and cell phones and whatnot, Ben and I are doing a work sprint from Paris this month (Ben will be arriving tomorrow, so expect updates from him as well). We look forward to pushing a bunch of the new features we’ve been […]
Would you like a Fluther sticker? 11:21 amThere’s a unique one out in the wild, but you have to work for it! So, if you’re in LA, you have a chance if you’re quick! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ce9178cf-15f3-4720-930e-fd1a7985f3be
Sorry all, we had some issues with one of our servers that took a while to diagnose. It should be fixed now. In the interim, though, avatars have been disabled. We’ll be looking to get those back up this weekend. Thanks for your patience.
Flutherbot 2.0 3:59 amWith great exhaustion, we present to you the new and improved Flutherbot. After the lengthy alpha stage, he’s new and improved — and instead of spamming you with a bunch of questions, you can control how often he gives you questions with our new notification settings. We’ve added Gmail/GTalk/Jabber support as well. Additionally, we’re now […]
More policy tweaks (And new jellytable!) 3:29 pmAs part of our continual refining of Fluther’s vision, Ben and I sent out a new moderation policy to the mod team last night, and I wanted to share it with the collective. One thing we’ve honed in on as we define what’s acceptable on the site is motive — why someone is asking a […]
The last couple of weeks have made me realize that I’ve done a poor job of communicating the goal of the moderation process: to work with jellies to make sure the questions asked are the most-thought-out and spark the best quality answers or the best quality discussion. As a result, I’ve tweaked the moderation process […]
New Fluther Guidelines (and new jelly table!) 11:17 pmAfter much deliberation with Ben, the moderators, and the community, I’ve updated the community guidelines to reflect a bit of an adjustment in policy from the last few months. http://www.fluther.com/faq/#guidelines The gist is that Fluther is primarily built for “straight” questions — but we welcome “social” questions as long as they show effort, promote thoughtful […]
Announcing Fluther jelly-table discussions! 9:07 pmI’ve been talking with Ben over the last few weeks about the state of the community and about revising our community guidelines. One thing we’ve thought was a great idea was to have an open, weekly “jelly-table” talks in the Man O’ War chatroom where jellies can come in and talk with us, state concerns, […]