The Fluther Blog

What do computer skills, burritos, Pabst and dick punching have in common? That’s right, our very own johnpowell. He is a Fluther veteran (almost two years!), who is also a dedicated chat mod that was responsible for the introduction of Fluther chat rooms. His answers and questions are loved and appreciated by all. In addition, […]

After much deliberation with Ben, the moderators, and the community, I’ve updated the community guidelines to reflect a bit of an adjustment in policy from the last few months. http://www.fluther.com/faq/#guidelines The gist is that Fluther is primarily built for “straight” questions — but we welcome “social” questions as long as they show effort, promote thoughtful […]

I’ve been talking with Ben over the last few weeks about the state of the community and about revising our community guidelines. One thing we’ve thought was a great idea was to have an open, weekly “jelly-table” talks in the Man O’ War chatroom where jellies can come in and talk with us, state concerns, […]

Dear Jelly, We need your help. Fluther has a chance to to win the People’s Choice Award at SXSW. Whoever get the most votes, wins. Anyone can vote, one vote per day. That means if you all vote right now, and then tomorrow, and the day after, until March 6th, you can make Fluther win, […]

We’ve added a few new greetings into the rotation, based on the question I asked:   “Oh, there’s that twinkle in your eye!” “Ah, you’re just the one we were waiting for.” “Who wants s’mores?” “Won’t you be our neighbor?” “My, don’t you look dapper!” “Sit back and relax. We will do the dishes today.” […]

Last night, Andrew and I were humbled and thrilled to learn that Fluther was named a SXSW Web Award Finalist for the upcoming 2009 South by Southwest Interactive conference. Woohoo! We’ll be there at the award ceremony on March 15th, drinking bubbly and crossing our fingers. And, of course, this award is for “Community” so […]

Over the last few months, many of you have “noticed” a strange “quality” of our “search” function: it “sucked.” Well, we finally got a chance to partner with a lesser-known startup to provide you with a much better search. We hope it helps everyone more easily access the bountiful knowledge stored in the collective. Enjoy–and […]

As a little side project to distract myself while I’m beefing up the IM server, I decided to implement a feature we’ve been thinking about for a long time: institutionalizing the @user convention. Now, while you’re writing your response, you’ll see a pop-up list of users within the discussion when you start typing ‘@’, and […]

You may have noticed some extra goodies during the last few days, namely: The FlutherSearch Firefox plugin: If you use Firefox, you should try it out–it’s specially made by our friends at WebMynd so when you search Google you also search Fluther. Plus, it can record your search history in a nifty way. An Amazon […]

Some of you may have noticed the hour that Fluther was down this afternoon. I thought I’d give you a little insight into what we’ve been I’ve been up to while Bacio fiddles the bits on the server. Not wanting anyone to accuse us of not running with the cool kids, I decided to implement […]