Archive for the 'Fluther' Category

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.

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.
a&b

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 […]

The Fluther Interview: whatthefluther and sccrowell Part two

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This is part two of the interview with whatthefluther (Gary) and sccrowell (Sherry). If you missed part 1, read that first here. The Fluther community wishes this jelly couple a happy and long life together as husband and wife.

The Fluther Interview: whatthefluther and sccrowell

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Since the widely popular Fluther Proposal, there aren’t many in the community that haven’t heard of whatthefluther and sccrowell.  But even before that thread, the two were well lurved by all for their friendly personalities and caring answers.  They’ve both seen a lot of ups and downs in life, but manage to continue smiling and […]