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You might have wondered why you’re required to enter topics when you ask a question. One reason is that we use them to form a weighted list, highlighting the most popular topics of Fluther.
Updated User Guidelines 6:14 pmAs you may know, last night we made the decision to ask a few users to leave the collective. This was a culmination of the continuing discussion we’ve been having on the quality and culture of Fluther as we grow. There were also incidents of artificial score inflation, which we viewed as cheating. This decision […]
The collective creates 9:47 amI have a special treat for all you Flutherers. Two of our members, paulc and klass4, have created really nifty Fluther add-ons. We’re floored by their work — we love seeing our users re-envision the site in new ways.
In my last post, I announced a new feature that automatically corrects the punctuation of questions using “fancy computer logic”. I’d like to reveal some of that computer logic, in the first in a series of blog posts where we explore the technology that drives Fluther.
Fixing your lousy punctuation and capitalization 9:49 amMembers of Fluther’s grammar police will be happy to know that we’re making strides toward proper English. Fluther now applies some fancy computer logic to improve question formatting: The first word will be capitalized ALL CAPS will be converted to sentence-case Repeated punctuation will be unified Questions that omit punctuation will have a question mark appended You’ll be able […]
Introducing…Erik! 4:12 pmWe’ve been trying to keep it secret for quite a while now, but many of you have already figured it out: Superstar Fluther member sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) is now part of the Fluther Team! Andrew and I are thrilled to have him on board and we’re looking forward to sharing countless late nights, brainstorming sessions, […]
So, some of you may have noticed some server blips and wonkiness on Fluther today or maybe some slowness over the last few weeks. Our apologies. There are just so many of you using the site (and so few of us) that we weren’t quite prepared for all this traffic. But that’s okay. Please keep […]
How can we make Fluther better as we grow? 11:40 pmFirst, I want to give thanks to the community. When Ben and I started talking about Fluther in 2006, we never imagined that we’d have such a vibrant community so quickly. So, thank you to our amazing, intelligent, curious, and open-minded users for making Fluther such a wonderful, entertaining place. I also want to apologize […]
Thus begins the great purge… 11:25 amWe’re still listed as the top webapp on Apple’s social networking site, and the flow of new users doesn’t seem to be slowing. I’ve refined our question removal tools, added more warning text to the iPhone site, and will be updating our guidelines. We’ll be adding search to the iPhone shortly. That said: we’re going […]