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Flutherbot 2.0

Posted May 29th, 2009 by andrew

With 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 notifying you when people give you comments and have improved when we send you activity emails (only one email when you’re logged out and get new activity) — and, again, this is a setting that you can turn off.

There were some issues during the deployment — so there may be some tiny snags in our little mechanical friend as we work out his kinks in the next few days, but rest assured, he’ll love you no matter what.

We’ve added some new easter eggs in Mr. Flutherbot as well — so treat him like a friend. A friend with a robotic brain that used to be annoying and has a propensity for breaking down.

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10 Comments on “Flutherbot 2.0”

  1. eponymoushipster Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    any easter eggs yet, anyone?

  2. Ivan Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    I really don’t know what this is… Anyone care to fill me in?

  3. eponymoushipster Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    @Ivan it’s a bot that you add to your Instant Messanger buddy list, you can ask questions via IM, receive random questions, etc., as explain above. You can activate it via your Account Settings, then follow the instructions given.

  4. Ivan Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    OK, so what does this mean?

    “we’re now notifying you when people give you comments”

  5. La_chica_gomela Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    @Ivan, it means that If you add the flutherbot to your buddy list, it will tell you when you have a new comment.

  6. Ivan Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Gotcha. Thanks.

  7. Dog Says:
    May 30th, 2009 at 6:12 am

    AWESOME!

    (I never minded flutherbot #1 it was funny in the chat room when it pretended to be Andrew spewing out newborns.)

  8. delirium Says:
    May 31st, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    OH. THANK. GOD.

  9. chelseababyy Says:
    May 31st, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    This is super exciting. Flutherbot <3

  10. shilolo Says:
    June 1st, 2009 at 12:45 am

    Oh, good, now I can unblock him.

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