Archive for the 'Fluther' 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 […]

Send in your mail

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Hola! It’s that time of the month again. Unfortunately due to time constraints, I will not be able to interview as often as I would like. But the exciting news is that Fluther’s community manager - augustlan will be taking over. Please be sure to show her as much lurve and support as you have […]

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 […]

The Fluther Interview: richardhenry

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

You might know him as the moderator who doesn’t sleep, the one with the sexy Brit accent or even as the energetic and successful Designer/Software Developer. This is because richardhenry wears many hats.
He has played an integral role in Fluther for almost two years now. As an ex-community manager and moderator, he has put in […]

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 Fluther Interview: Trying something new

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Hey guys! I know it has been some time since the last interview and so hopefully you are looking forward to a new one. Based on the thoughtful suggestions given by all of you in this thread, I have decided it is time to add a new component to the interviews.
Since the whole point of […]

Fluther Badge Contest Winners!

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Who won?
Watch to find out (the video cuts out but you can hear the winner):

And what is the grand prize gift (which we customized for our grand prize winner)… After looking at the user’s profile, we’ve decided to get:

A copy of Helvetica, the movie
a $50 gift certificate to Amazon
a Fluther T-Shirt

Congrats to the winners, and […]

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 […]

Paris Podcast

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

The Fluther Podcast #3: Paris from Fluther on Vimeo.
More pictures on the vimeo page, as well.