Did you know about this cool Fluther feature?
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April 29th, 2016
So I was just about to implement a feature that I thought Fluther should have, when I realized it already has it! It has just been hiding from me for all these years.
You know how you can filter “Everything”, “Active”, or “Orphan” questions? (Orphans are questions that haven’t been answered yet, btw). I always assumed “Active” just did the opposite of “Orphan” and filtered out the orphans. Turns out it does something else too: it sorts the questions so that the most-recently answered question shows up first. That’s the feature I was going to implement: the choice to sort questions by either how recently they were asked or how recently they’ve been answered.
Thought others would like to know that that exists! Would anyone like me to change the label on the button so that it’s more obvious? Maybe I’m just exceptionally unobservant, but I haven’t noticed this in my seven years on the site.
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I already noticed that “Active” filters the questions with the most recent answers, but it seems that we need a filter that sorts out the most recently asked question. I suggest you add a button for that and call it something like “recent”. I’m just tired of having to click on my profile to see the recent questions already.
I’m a little confused by what you mean. The most recently asked question is the default sorting method. Do you mean that you want all the sections (general, social, meta) combined and sorted by most recently asked somewhere?
Yeah, something like that. I can find more recently asked questions that way than having to click on my profile to do that. The current “recent” section is extremely limited too.
Why not just click through each section? When I sign on in the morning I just scroll through general, then social, then meta. But if I can find a clean way to add what you want I’ll do it.
I think this feature may be helpful to newbies who don’t know how to navigate this site and want to answer a question that is within their interest and ability. And it keeps me from missing interesting questions too. Seeing all the recently asked questions into one place is more convenient than having to dig through every section for something to answer. I miss some interesting questions because of that too.
Sorry to be all dickish.. But how about when when a question titles contains a straight up URL you ban them. It is in tons of spam and never in legit questions and easy as fuck to do with a regex or library in python.
Or just use the built in push to editing function if a url is detected.
http://validators.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is a really simple problem to solve and would kill a lot of spam.
@Mimishu1995 OK, I’ll think about how I could add that cleanly. I don’t want to clutter the site with a million options so I’ll have to put some thought into design. In the meantime, I made an easy change which was to increase the length of the “Newborn” section from 5 to 15. I hope that helps a bit.
@johnpowell Good idea.
http://imgur.com/Uep5Whl
This has been going on for months and is such a easy fix.
And I totally get that you are not paid. If Andrew and Ben are making money on this site I wouldn’t help. View the site without being logged in or without a ad blocker.
I will save you the trouble.
http://imgur.com/nS7ER2W
And that bottom ad is automated and annoying as hell. This is not some benevolent venture. They provide a platform for us to communicate and create content. I can deal with that. But then they want you to work for free while they slather ads all over the place. Ben isn’t doing this for free. All yall (myself are being suckered)
And Ben. If that isn’t the case show us your ad revenue and server costs and what you pay the mods and (code interns)... I eagerly await your silence.
Gee, that would be cool.
If it were true.
It doesn’t appear to be.
When I just checked the top “Active” question, the last answer was an hour ago.
When I checked the top question on my “Activity” feed, the last answer was 35 minutes ago.
My last shown post was 25 minutes ago.
According to the Permalink at the end of the answers.
Is there a way to add this too the mobile/iPhone view? I have seen it but as I am often on my phone I can’t use it
If you click on Fluther in the upper left, @Stinley?
Does that take you to the Fluther proper page with filters of Everything, Active and Orphans?
Right under the General banner?
Top “Active” at this writing is “Ladies only. Have you ever been bullied and abused by an unknown man, and in a public place?”
And the last answer has a permalink of one hour ago.
@ibstubro The posts are still separated by General, Social, and Meta when you use the filter. Probably the post from your activity feed was in social while the “Ladies only…” post was in general.
@Stinley Not too familiar with the mobile site as I don’t use it, about to run out the door in a few minutes but I can check later.
@johnpowell It’s been stated repeatedly that Ben is not making any money out of Fluther any more. He pays the server costs out of good will.
The ads are annoying if you are not logged in, yeah, but why are you being so hostile?
@Mariah That is so cool! Even after all these years I didn’t know what the Active feature did. Doh!
I’ve used this feature for years. I wish it worked on mobile.
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