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As you can see, we’ve quintupled our activity in the span of a few days. As I’ve blogged about before, our signal-to-noise ratio has gone down a bit. We’ve been removing the most inane and childish questions, but many of the “low quality” questions are simply new users who are just trying out the site […]
Apple gives us some iPhone lovin’ 9:35 amWow–our little iPhone app just got prominently featured on Apple’s webapps page. This will make today another big one, full of fresh faces! Welcome new users! We hope you like our knowledge collective, and abide by our community guidelines. Let us know if you have any feedback. And to all you venerable Fluther users, thanks […]
Server updates! (resend your feedback) 2:50 pmWe’ve been slaving away optimizing our entire server architecture, and yesterday we made some great strides! We hope you notice how speedy the site is now, especially for long-time members. (Sometime I’ll be writing an entry about versioning media files and javascript in Django, but not today!) Unfortunately, I accidentally left a switch off when […]
We’re a little late to report it, but klaas4 has made a Fluther search widget for your dashboard in OS X! I just downloaded, and it’s quite nifty. Here’s the link. Thanks, klaas4! Keep up all the great work. And for those of you who are interested, we’re in the process of making a real […]
Add Fluther to your iPhone 8:16 pmI’ve added an icon for the new iPhone firmware update (thanks to Dan Dickinson), so add Fluther to your home screen: Navigate to http://www.fluther.com on your iPhone Tap the plus sign at the bottom of the screen Choose “Add to Home Screen” Fluther with one finger!
Reddit gobbles Fluther cake! 2:07 amThe famous “cake question” is being redditted!! Please vote for us and help keep the Fluther ball a-rollin’. Note to self: build a giant Fluther ball.
Today was Fluther’s biggest day! It’s always exciting to have a new influx of fresh users — we just didn’t expect you to all come a-knockin’ at once. Yesterday, Webware wrote a great story which listed Fluther as one of the best designed sites of 2007. It was humbling to be listed next to some […]
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.
T-Shirts are here! Yay! 11:57 amI’m proud to finally announce the availability of Fluther T-Shirts! By popular demand, you can now show off your Fluther pride as you walk down the street. We’re partnering with GoodStorm, an SF-based T-Shirt company that makes high quality prints on American Apparel. Sounds pretty sweet. Looks pretty sweet, too. Enjoy the threads.