The Fluther Blog

We’ve updated YUI, so IE8 should work now without having to switch into compatibility mode. We’ve also fixed a long nagging bug where the @link dropdown menu wouldn’t work at the start of your second paragraph. Bigger features should be dropping later this week. a&b

As part of a little long-term project, we’ve wrapped up porting our custom Textile engine from python to javascript. What does that mean? It means that the previews you see will be much, much faster to render, and it means that during peak times, Fluther should be much more nimble. We’ve also added a few […]

We’ve added a new setting so you can control who sees your list of answers on your profile. We’ve also changed up the RSS and twitter feeds to raise the quality of list of questions, as well as include attribution to the users who ask them (since mysteriously, questions still are showing up on another […]

If you hadn’t pieced together from all my questions about Paris and electricity and cell phones and whatnot, Ben and I are doing a work sprint from Paris this month (Ben will be arriving tomorrow, so expect updates from him as well). We look forward to pushing a bunch of the new features we’ve been […]

This is part two of the interview with whatthefluther (Gary) and sccrowell (Sherry). If you missed part 1, read that first here. The Fluther community wishes this jelly couple a happy and long life together as husband and wife.

Since the widely popular Fluther Proposal, there aren’t many in the community that haven’t heard of whatthefluther and sccrowell.  But even before that thread, the two were well lurved by all for their friendly personalities and caring answers.  They’ve both seen a lot of ups and downs in life, but manage to continue smiling and […]

There’s a unique one out in the wild, but you have to work for it! So, if you’re in LA, you have a chance if you’re quick! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ce9178cf-15f3-4720-930e-fd1a7985f3be

Sorry all, we had some issues with one of our servers that took a while to diagnose. It should be fixed now. In the interim, though, avatars have been disabled. We’ll be looking to get those back up this weekend. Thanks for your patience.

Dear Jason Calacanis, Stop stealing our users’ content. Your Q&A website, Mahalo Answers, is hijacking content from our Q&A site, Fluther. We get it. You need to create doppelganger Twitter accounts to bolster your user base and create content. Perhaps some Twitter users are fine with the fact that their tweets are being co-opted by […]

With great exhaustion, we present to you the new and improved Flutherbot. After the lengthy alpha stage, he’s new and improved — and instead of spamming you with a bunch of questions, you can control how often he gives you questions with our new notification settings. We’ve added Gmail/GTalk/Jabber support as well. Additionally, we’re now […]