The Fluther Blog

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]