The Fluther Blog

Great news, Fluther! You can finally edit the mistakes improve your posts and questions!!! Shortly after you post them, you can click on “Edit this discussion” in the lower right-hand corner of your new question, or on “Edit this response” in your newly-minted response and you’ll be able to make changes! Happy editing!

Big props to mirza! After a user asked about a Fluther blog widget, he went and made one. You can see it on his blog, Ziked. It uses a cool tool Internet scraping tool called dapper, which I hadn’t seen before. Clever. It’s great to see our users building stuff out of Fluther. Remember, we […]

In the midst of a busy August, Andrew and I have made it easier to _express_ *yourself* on Fluther. Here’s the whole story. We’re using the nifty conventions of Textile, because we’re huge fans of reusing good ideas (in some ways, that’s the essence of Fluther). We’ve also had a chance to fix a few […]

I have some good news for everyone in the Fluther collective. We’ve just made Fluther smarter. I’m sure many of you (especially the old-timers), have noticed you were getting lots of “Questions for you”… many of which seemed like they weren’t “for you”. Sorry about that. In the midst of our exciting launch, we had […]

Check out Fluther popping up in this article about emoticons in the Sunday New York Times (go to page 2, near the end). Also, props to elliotcable, whose great answer got quoted. We’re finally fit to print. Feels pretty good. 🙂

—–UPDATE—– Thanks everyone for submitting to the T-Shirt contest. Due to design constraints, we were unable to use any of your awesome submissions. Don’t worry, you can still buy a Fluther Tee from our new Fluther Store. More importantly, we’re thinking of lots of new ways to give away Fluther Tees. Thanks again to all […]

Now that we’re pretty much finished with the iPhone app, I thought it’d be nice to lay out some of the improvements we’re thinking about. Unicode support Better matching More consistent notification, especially on activity in questions you’ve asked Response editing Spellcheck More stable AIM support, support for XMPP IM clients Better topic suggestions when […]

“Veni, vidi, vici.”- We dreamed it, we designed it, we built it. Okay, maybe it’s not an exact translation, but you get the idea: We made an iPhone version of Fluther. So for all those hip iPhone users, go to iphone.fluther.com and start playing. Yes, I had an awesome weekend at iPhoneDevCamp… meeting tons of […]

We’ve gotten a bunch of great blog reviews since the re-launch. Enough to shake a stick at. First, blog entries from our beloved collective: tonystubblebine — Fluther: Social questions and answers derektherock42 — Ryan and I were… mark (our brilliant designer) — Social Search mdy — Finding Entertainment in the Strangest Ways Then, reviews and […]

To tell you the truth, we never really expected such a huge response to the re-launch of the site. Here are some stats since our launch two weeks ago: 290 new members in the collective (44 on Friday alone!) 259 new questions 1204 new responses Our traffic has increased ten-fold since the relaunch Thank you […]