Is AskJelly the new Fluther.com website?

No, it’s just another website that our founders also have started. Fluther is still around. We’re on it right now!

Wow! When was AskJelly.com created? Until now, I hadn’t known about it.

The website looks a bit like Quora.com.

No, Fluther is fine. Jelly is just another nice place on the internet. Now there are two.

I quite liked the ‘related questions’ aspect of Fluther. Sometimes I would go and look at a previous related question. I don’t know that I want to be directed to another site. If I wanted to go to Jelly, I would. From what I’ve seen so far, I prefer Fluther.

Why have a “Fluther-like” site? Why not just Fluther? I don’t understand.

Ben and Biz Stone created Jelly a few years ago as a mobile based Q&A site. It’s been around but not gotten much traction. Seems they are trying to bolster each by connecting them more.

If you use uBlock Origin (you should) these filters will remove the new stuff.

www.fluther.com###recent
www.fluther.com###sidebar > .sidebar.module-jelly.module-aux

I suspect Fluther’s days are numbered. The writing is on the wall for the desktop computer: Win10 is a tablet OS with computers as a second thought, for example, and they’re trying to buffalo everyone onto it through a variety of underhanded tactics and dirty tricks. Personal computers give users too much individual power (peer-to-peer filesharing, encryption, firewalls, VPNs, etc.), and our corporate masters are trying to stuff the genie back into the bottle. The same way console gaming killed PC gaming and reduced it to a rind of small independent developers and haphazard, second-rate ports, tablets and smartphones are going to turn the PC in general into a fringe market for people with an above-water-level IQ – a rapidly shrinking market.

I was an early adopter of StumbleUpon and watched with dismay as it was sold back and forth through a succession of soulless corporations who stripped away all the things which had made it unique in an attempt to turn it into a third-rate Facebook. They failed, and now they’ve essentially kicked all their remaining PC users off to try to attract cellphone mouth-breathers.

Fluther’s user base has been imploding. How long it will take Ben to pull the plug on the servers is anyone’s guess, but Jelly is a bad sign. When your boss starts training your replacement, it’s time to open the classifieds and look for a new job.

@SmashTheState: Zzzzzzzz.

@jca I get it. You don’t like me. Can I suggest you just ignore me? There are a handful of users who are now following me from question to question and shitting up each thread in an attempt to bully me off the site. Personally, I don’t give a fuck what you post, but I suspect you’re trying to create a situation where the moderation bourgeoisie is forced to choose between kicking me off the site and having every thread turned into a festering shitheap of bickering and negativity. Who knows, it might even work. But it’s not very considerate of everyone else.

@SmashTheState: If everyone on Fluther ignored everyone they didn’t like, there’d not be much of a network going on here.

I get that you don’t like most or all of us with the way you make broad, sweeping generalizations about how we’re horrible, capitalist pigs, greedy, don’t take care of our fellow man, are terrible people because we aspire to live with more than duck taped shoes, no heat, no shower, etc.

As far as your assumption that I’m trying to ”create a situation where the moderation bourgeoisie is forced to do” blah blah blah to you, you are ascribing me way to much power. It’s also last on my list of priorities for my day to day capitalist pig existence. Right now my main concern is do I get a little nap before I have to get up for work, or will that make me ten minutes late and irk my boss? Yes, my capitalist pig existence requires that I go to work every day (for the government, no less! Horrors!) for the benefits and to support myself and my daughter. It’s not easy and it’s not fun but I can assure you, trying to get you kicked off the site is not one of the most important things I’ll be doing today.

We don’t need to worry about Fluther. Jelly is not a replacement for the thoughtful discussion Fluther does so well. It’s a search engine, actually. It’s like Google made of people.You’d need to add the browser extension to see what I’m talking about, I guess.

As far as I can see, the similarities are just the atmosphere, the jellyfish and Ben.

Let’s try to trust Ben and Andrew. They’ve been keeping Fluther safe for a decade, and they’ve been doing a ton of work around here lately.

No, unbunch your knickers & rejoice

It would seem to me that it would behoove the creators of “jelly land” to render the transition of members here to the new suburb as effortless as possible. Why shouldn’t we be allowed to ease on over for visits, avatars and all?

@stanleybmanly Both sites will continue to be up and running as far as I understand. They are different in focus.