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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 11:07 amSince 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 […]
Would you like a Fluther sticker? 11:21 amThere’s a unique one out in the wild, but you have to work for it! So, if you’re in LA, you have a chance if you’re quick! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ce9178cf-15f3-4720-930e-fd1a7985f3be
Sorry all, we had some issues with one of our servers that took a while to diagnose. It should be fixed now. In the interim, though, avatars have been disabled. We’ll be looking to get those back up this weekend. Thanks for your patience.
An open letter to Jason Calacanis 4:38 pmDear Jason Calacanis, Stop stealing our users’ content. Your Q&A website, Mahalo Answers, is hijacking content from our Q&A site, Fluther. We get it. You need to create doppelganger Twitter accounts to bolster your user base and create content. Perhaps some Twitter users are fine with the fact that their tweets are being co-opted by […]
Flutherbot 2.0 3:59 amWith great exhaustion, we present to you the new and improved Flutherbot. After the lengthy alpha stage, he’s new and improved — and instead of spamming you with a bunch of questions, you can control how often he gives you questions with our new notification settings. We’ve added Gmail/GTalk/Jabber support as well. Additionally, we’re now […]
Hi Flutherites, Long time no blog. It may have sounded quiet around here, but we’ve been busy working on lots of things under the hood and today we’d like to announce a neat new feature that’s been requested by many of you: profile answers! Now when you click on user profiles, you can see not […]
More policy tweaks (And new jellytable!) 3:29 pmAs part of our continual refining of Fluther’s vision, Ben and I sent out a new moderation policy to the mod team last night, and I wanted to share it with the collective. One thing we’ve honed in on as we define what’s acceptable on the site is motive — why someone is asking a […]
Moderation process updates 2:09 pmThe last couple of weeks have made me realize that I’ve done a poor job of communicating the goal of the moderation process: to work with jellies to make sure the questions asked are the most-thought-out and spark the best quality answers or the best quality discussion. As a result, I’ve tweaked the moderation process […]