Archive for April, 2008

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Monday, April 7th, 2008

A number of you noted that the Activity You’re Following page can get painfully long after you’ve been Fluthering for a while. There are lots of big things keeping us busy these days (just you wait), but sometimes it’s worth taking a deep breath, pressing pause, and making a little improvement to the site. Two […]

The Fluther Interview: Valhalla30

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I’m very pleased to be introducing a new blog feature: The Fluther Interview.
Every couple weeks, we’re going to select a member of the collective and ask them a few questions about themselves so that we can all get to know each other a little better.
In the very first installment, we decided to interview a new […]

“How’d they do that?” Real-time chat

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

In Erik’s last entry in the series, robmandu asked how we implemented the real-time chat. So, ask and ye shall receive! There are a lot of moving parts in the chat system, so I’m going to focus mostly on the back-end for this article — which allows me to show you one of my favorite […]

Fluther questions your answers

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Today, Fluther is proud to announce a major strategic shift toward becoming an answer-questioning site.
“Question answering sites are a dime a dozen,” said Fluther CEO and co-founder Ben Finkel.  “We wanted to do something really different—and this was the first idea that popped into my head.”
“So many of our users have answers that need questioning,” […]