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George, or gggritso as he’s better known has crept his way into the Fluther regulars list. He has quite a few things going for him here on Fluther: smarts (nanotechnology engineering sounds complicated for a reason), an accent (he’s Canadian Russian), good looks and hygiene (look below), and most importantly his heart is in the […]
Show your lurve… 1:04 pmTo Mr. Lurve himself. That’s right, our next interviewee is gggritso, the man who is busy spreading happiness to other Flutherites. Now is your chance to ask him all those burning questions you have always had about him. Use the comments box below and questions are due by 5th March (Friday).
Better following notification 12:06 amImage courtesy of gbaku. Ever wanted to know when your favorite jellies adds you to their fluther? That’s what we thought. We just added a new notification setting that lets you receive an email or IM when this happens–making it easier to keep track of your crew. Hope you find it useful.
I first knew I wanted to learn Django when I saw the DjangoCon 2008 keynote talk by Cal Henderson, subtly titled “Why I hate Django”…
The Horseshoe of Loyalty 3:07 pmHow sticky is your traffic? It’s easy to get hung up focusing on monthly uniques, or registrations, or pageviews. But those can be shallow metrics. If your website were a meal, how many people are just taking a taste and how many people are coming back for seconds? Sure, it’s great to have lots of […]
Threaded comments 4:53 pmOK, so you guys have requested numerous features over the last three years (especially that johnpowell character). Occasionally we’ve listened. This is one of those times. We’ve threaded comments so you can see the whole conversation you’ve been having with someone—it’s been long overdue. To get started, click “Comments for you”. On that page click […]
Image by wheatfields We’ve added a new, experimental category to clean up the main page — meta. Now, you can ask questions about what’s going on in the site without disrupting the main flow. Just like the chatroom, the meta tab gives you an option to talk about Fluther itself. Unlike the Discussion and Question […]
Better downtime communication 12:52 pmSo over the last 18 hours we’ve had sporadic downtime. It’s true. Let me explain what happened… Fluther uses Slicehost to provide servers. Those servers are located in a datacenter in St. Louis along with hundred of other servers belonging to many other companies. A website (which Slicehost didn’t name) that wasn’t us came under […]
Fluther Blog 2: The Reckoning 10:05 pmIf you’re reading this, you may have noticed something new…that’s right, we added a randomized quote at the bottom! Oh yeah, we also got a fantastic looking refresh from our amazing designer David. We’re ecstatic to do some more blogging; we’ve been saving up some longer posts for a little while now.