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Friday night we’ll be taking Fluther down for a few hours to deploy some updates to the site. What’s new? Redesigned profiles Topics Privacy Let’s break each one down in a bit more detail. Redesigned profiles Profile pages are much more attractive. Instead of showing every possible thing about you on one page, there’s an […]
Look who washed up on shore… 4:30 pmPlease welcome Cameron Dutro to the collective—he’s our newest hire and brings the team to six!
Avatars and fluthers 12:18 pmFirst off, the exciting part for most of you: we’re increasing the number of people you can include in your fluther to 500! The reason for this is we’re moving the place where we store your avatars off of our servers and onto an external service. Moving to S3 will take a load off our […]
We’re starting to spruce up topics on Fluther. You will notice three changes from tonight’s upgrade: Question pages have an updated look. Topics have an updated look (there’s a couple places we missed but we will update those soon). People are now listed on topic pages. If you would prefer not show up on these […]
Authentication changes 3:57 pmPhoto by Dunechaser We’re making a couple changes to authentication. The changes will help increase security (especially in multi-user environments). The changes will sign you out so don’t be alarmed. Also, starting today you will need to sign in every 31 days.
Going for a trot on the Django pony 11:11 amI first knew I wanted to learn Django when I saw the DjangoCon 2008 keynote talk by Cal Henderson, subtly titled “Why I hate Django”…
OK, so you guys have requested numerous features over the last three years (especially that johnpowell character). Occasionally we’ve listened. This is one of those times. We’ve threaded comments so you can see the whole conversation you’ve been having with someone—it’s been long overdue. To get started, click “Comments for you”. On that page click […]
Better downtime communication 12:52 pmSo over the last 18 hours we’ve had sporadic downtime. It’s true. Let me explain what happened… Fluther uses Slicehost to provide servers. Those servers are located in a datacenter in St. Louis along with hundred of other servers belonging to many other companies. A website (which Slicehost didn’t name) that wasn’t us came under […]
Fluther Blog 2: The Reckoning 10:05 pmIf you’re reading this, you may have noticed something new…that’s right, we added a randomized quote at the bottom! Oh yeah, we also got a fantastic looking refresh from our amazing designer David. We’re ecstatic to do some more blogging; we’ve been saving up some longer posts for a little while now.