The Fluther Blog

As you may know, last night we made the decision to ask a few users to leave the collective. This was a culmination of the continuing discussion we’ve been having on the quality and culture of Fluther as we grow. There were also incidents of artificial score inflation, which we viewed as cheating. This decision […]

I have a special treat for all you Flutherers. Two of our members, paulc and klass4, have created really nifty Fluther add-ons. We’re floored by their work — we love seeing our users re-envision the site in new ways.

First, I want to give thanks to the community. When Ben and I started talking about Fluther in 2006, we never imagined that we’d have such a vibrant community so quickly. So, thank you to our amazing, intelligent, curious, and open-minded users for making Fluther such a wonderful, entertaining place. I also want to apologize […]

We’re still listed as the top webapp on Apple’s social networking site, and the flow of new users doesn’t seem to be slowing. I’ve refined our question removal tools, added more warning text to the iPhone site, and will be updating our guidelines. We’ll be adding search to the iPhone shortly. That said: we’re going […]

As you can see, we’ve quintupled our activity in the span of a few days. As I’ve blogged about before, our signal-to-noise ratio has gone down a bit. We’ve been removing the most inane and childish questions, but many of the “low quality” questions are simply new users who are just trying out the site […]

We’ve been slaving away optimizing our entire server architecture, and yesterday we made some great strides! We hope you notice how speedy the site is now, especially for long-time members. (Sometime I’ll be writing an entry about versioning media files and javascript in Django, but not today!) Unfortunately, I accidentally left a switch off when […]

I’ve added an icon for the new iPhone firmware update (thanks to Dan Dickinson), so add Fluther to your home screen: Navigate to http://www.fluther.com on your iPhone Tap the plus sign at the bottom of the screen Choose “Add to Home Screen” Fluther with one finger!

Great news, Fluther! You can finally edit the mistakes improve your posts and questions!!! Shortly after you post them, you can click on “Edit this discussion” in the lower right-hand corner of your new question, or on “Edit this response” in your newly-minted response and you’ll be able to make changes! Happy editing!

Hey all you SoCal Flutherers! Join me today, October 4, for the opening of Grand Text Auto at the Beall Center of Art + Technology at UC Irvine, where my collaboration Screen is showing. The show runs until December, but I’d love to see you there! More information here. Stay tuned… Ben’s sketch comedy show […]

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