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You might have wondered why you’re required to enter topics when you ask a question. One reason is that we use them to form a weighted list, highlighting the most popular topics of Fluther.
Fixing your lousy punctuation and capitalization 9:49 amMembers of Fluther’s grammar police will be happy to know that we’re making strides toward proper English. Fluther now applies some fancy computer logic to improve question formatting: The first word will be capitalized ALL CAPS will be converted to sentence-case Repeated punctuation will be unified Questions that omit punctuation will have a question mark appended You’ll be able […]
Top 10 designs of 2007! 12:56 pmCheck out Fluther get some design props on Webware! Don’t forget to digg the story, too. Wow, it feels great to be in such classy company. Cheers all around.
We periodically get requests for feature improvements from you. Those little things that nag you, they nag us too, and we love when you alert us so we can fix something. So, much to our satisfaction, we’ve zapped a few of those minor annoyances: Removing “Questions for you” happens asynchronously (making it fast). You can […]
Edit your mistakes! 8:55 pmGreat news, Fluther! You can finally edit the mistakes improve your posts and questions!!! Shortly after you post them, you can click on “Edit this discussion” in the lower right-hand corner of your new question, or on “Edit this response” in your newly-minted response and you’ll be able to make changes! Happy editing!
Unofficial blog widget. 11:09 amBig props to mirza! After a user asked about a Fluther blog widget, he went and made one. You can see it on his blog, Ziked. It uses a cool tool Internet scraping tool called dapper, which I hadn’t seen before. Clever. It’s great to see our users building stuff out of Fluther. Remember, we […]
In the midst of a busy August, Andrew and I have made it easier to _express_ *yourself* on Fluther. Here’s the whole story. We’re using the nifty conventions of Textile, because we’re huge fans of reusing good ideas (in some ways, that’s the essence of Fluther). We’ve also had a chance to fix a few […]
Mmm…. Brains….. 10:30 amI have some good news for everyone in the Fluther collective. We’ve just made Fluther smarter. I’m sure many of you (especially the old-timers), have noticed you were getting lots of “Questions for you”… many of which seemed like they weren’t “for you”. Sorry about that. In the midst of our exciting launch, we had […]