The Fluther Blog

Today, my parents embark on yet another cross-country road trip to visit me.  For this journey, they have converted their cherry-apple red Dodge Caravan into…The Fluthermobile! We’ll be posting updates in this space with pictures of the van as it travels from Chicago to Los Angeles.  If you happen to pass the Fluthermobile on the […]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Fluther Greeting Contest. We loved your answers! We selected twenty of our favorite new greetings and added them into the rotation. You should start seeing them whenever you browse Fluther.

In this week’s installment, we show you something simple but important: pagination. If you’ve ever seen those little numbers at the bottom of a Google Search, then you’re familiar with a paginated list: Now we’ll show you how we made a reusable paginator for different parts of Fluther. First we had to decide how it […]

Fluther welcomes you to every page with a happy little greeting.  One of our users brilliantly asked the collective to submit new greetings of their own. The question has generated some great responses, so we decided to turn it into a contest.  Submit your best greeting suggestions as answers to the question and we’ll add […]

A number of you noted that the Activity You’re Following page can get painfully long after you’ve been Fluthering for a while. There are lots of big things keeping us busy these days (just you wait), but sometimes it’s worth taking a deep breath, pressing pause, and making a little improvement to the site. Two […]

I’m very pleased to be introducing a new blog feature: The Fluther Interview. Every couple weeks, we’re going to select a member of the collective and ask them a few questions about themselves so that we can all get to know each other a little better. In the very first installment, we decided to interview […]

In Erik’s last entry in the series, robmandu asked how we implemented the real-time chat. So, ask and ye shall receive! There are a lot of moving parts in the chat system, so I’m going to focus mostly on the back-end for this article — which allows me to show you one of my favorite […]

Today, Fluther is proud to announce a major strategic shift toward becoming an answer-questioning site. “Question answering sites are a dime a dozen,” said Fluther CEO and co-founder Ben Finkel.  “We wanted to do something really different—and this was the first idea that popped into my head.” “So many of our users have answers that […]

Here at Fluther, we love our Macs.  Now, if you have a Mac, you can add Fluther to your Dock using a nice little application developed by Todd Ditchendorf called Fluid. Fluid allows you to install Fluther as a separate Mac OS X application. This gives you faster access to Fluther and separates it from […]

The most common feature request is we get is the ability to see when some some has given you a “Great Answer!” We thought this was a “Great Idea!” (+5) and decided to create a page showing all the lurve you’ve received from the community. What is lurve, you ask? As Woody Allen put it: […]