12 Comments on “Sprucing up topics”

• Two questions:

  By “topics” are you referring to the “Fields of expertise” and “Hobbies & interests” sections of our profiles and/or to the tags at the bottom of a question?

  Are the changes just some added functionality pertaining to topics, rather than a change to the structure and organization we have now?

  13 years ago Jeruba

• (And how come that post says “7 hours ago” when I posted it less than a minute ago?)

  13 years ago Jeruba

• I’m not sure why it says 7 hours ago. I suspect the server hosting the blog is running on UTC perhaps? I’ll look into it later.

  Any topic listed on your profile in “Places I’ve lived”, “Hobbies & interests” and “Fields of expertise”.

  There are no changes to the structure or organization. Topic pages will have a list of questions tagged with that topic and a list of people who have decided to list that topic on their profile.

  13 years ago Tim Trueman

• So there’s going to be a special page for each thing that might be in any of those 3 places?

  13 years ago ChocolateReigns

• We’re going to have a question tab and a people tab on topic pages, such as this one: http://www.fluther.com/topics/cooking/ (remember it’s not launched yet)

  13 years ago Tim Trueman

• Sounds cool. Makes it easier for people with common interests to link up.

  13 years ago stranger_in_a_strange_land

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  13 years ago YARNLADY

• The topics pages look phenomenal. I absolutely love what you guys have done with them. Also I love the new buttons on the question pages. Definitely an improvement 🙂

  13 years ago chels

• Hah. There are NO questions about “Chocolate Chip Cookies” and only myself and a jelly named @lfino are on the people tab. If we could delete her account, I’d be unique among jellies.

  13 years ago cprevite

• Cute for the jellies who like to click into the depts 🙂

  13 years ago MaryW

• @cprevite you are already unique among jellies! 🙂

  13 years ago Dog

• This is great! I have two questions:1. How do you write in a voice that dsinitctive from your own? What I mean is, when I write fiction, I seem to get stuck either in an overly reflective first person that’s far too similar to how I write journals, or in a chatty, wry, vaguely 19th century third person omniscient that’s far too similar to the way I narrate my life in my head. Do any have any tips for developing a new style?2. Is it difficult for you put your characters through bad events or write them doing bad things? Especially if you don’t intend for them to have a happy ending later?

  8 years ago Silje