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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 […]
Andrew and I are about to embark on our first trip to SXSW! We’re so excited to meet all awesome geeks in the web world… it’s thrilling. As a fun experiment, we decided to make a special version of Fluther just for those of you with questions about SXSW. If you’re going, try doing some […]
Stemming the tide… 8:11 pmAs 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 […]
We’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 […]
Fluther search widget for OS X 7:14 pmWe’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!