Archive for the 'Features' Category

Enter: The Community Feed

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

We’re excited to announce the new, live community feed — we’ve been playing around with it for the last week and it’s proven to be really exciting to show us where the action is happening on the site — from celebrating great questions to showing us who has entered the fabled 10K mansion, we hope […]

Announcing Awards!

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

We’re constantly amazed by how much goodness is in the Fluther collective. So we thought it was high time to up the ante on our communal lurve. Thus, we proudly present: Fluther awards!! Here’s what ubersiren’s awards look like:

The idea is simple: do all the wonderful stuff you’re already doing (asking great questions, writing great […]

New changes sprinkled about…

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

We’ve added a few small features in the last week or so.
First, we’ve added sub-tabs when browsing all the topics, so you can see questions sorted by date, activity, and whether or not they’ve had any answers (poor little orphan questions).
We also have added the first steps in integrating your Facebook account with your Fluther […]

The new ask process

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

We’ve been testing this feature for a while, and we’re pleased to unveil the new ask process to everyone on the site.
Overall, we’ve seen fewer first questions pushed to moderation and the ask process run more smoothly for users.
The new data we’re collecting will give us a lot of room to play with how we […]

Announcing the Badge Contest! Prizes!

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Hello Flutherites!
We have good news. We’ve just built a new way for you show your Fluther Lurve on your own website: the Lurve Badge! This is what it looks like:

My profile on Fluther

And to kick off the launching the Lurve Badge, we’ve decided to have a little contest. Oh, what fun!
Here’s what we’re giving away:

Runner-up […]

IE8 Fixes and other bugfixes

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

We’ve updated YUI, so IE8 should work now without having to switch into compatibility mode.
We’ve also fixed a long nagging bug where the @link dropdown menu wouldn’t work at the start of your second paragraph.
Bigger features should be dropping later this week.
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Faster preview

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

As part of a little long-term project, we’ve wrapped up porting our custom Textile engine from python to javascript.
What does that mean? It means that the previews you see will be much, much faster to render, and it means that during peak times, Fluther should be much more nimble. We’ve also added a few new […]

Profile answers are back!

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

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 answer […]

Flutherbot 2.0

Friday, May 29th, 2009

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 […]

Easy access to answers

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Hi Flutherites,
Long time no blog. It may have sounded quiet around here, but we’ve been busy working on lots of things under the hood and today we’d like to announce a neat new feature that’s been requested by many of you: profile answers! Now when you click on user profiles, you can see not just […]