Name one feature that you'd like to improve or add to Fluther.com?

Times on posts. You have no idea how recently the topic has been commented on.

@DarkScribe Mouse over the permalink indicator. (the paragraph marker that shows up)

A proper chatroom that ties into the database.

Ability to block users. And being able to fine tune that. (block questions but not answers. Or block everything.)

@andrew Mouse over the permalink indicator. (the paragraph marker that shows up)

Thank you Andrew – I was unaware of that. It will be handy when I come on late at night and don’t know which threads are active.

@DarkScribe There’s also the active tab on the home page, if you’re looking for some hot Fluther action.

A new web app. Or a good iPhone app. Or the ability to see the standard fluther website on my phone.

2 things.

1: a complete run-over of the fluther app, basically rebuild it with full features and

2: have a timestamp to show when someone answered a question or made a comment. That way it would be easier to keep track of how long people are on if the mod team is looking for help.

More than one, but:

1. better chat room
2. api for programmers to tinker with
3. I don’t particularly care, but I know other people who would like some kind of ignore of other users

I don’t se any simple button that shows “My questions”

‘Questions for you’ – apparently I am supposed to like them… I do not and they do not change. What is the point of these questions?

@XOIIO as @andrew pointed out above, when you roll your mouse over an answer, you’ll see a paragraph icon appear. Put your mouse over that “P” icon, and you’ll see a box appear with a time stamp inside it.

I think it’s great that it is clean as it is. It should be a s clean as possible. Don’t need a static time stamp.

Would it be a good idea to have a suggestion box on fluther?

A filter for mature questions/answers, let’s say a tag would be needed named as ‘mature’ to post a question of mature content.

1. More notification options would be great.
2. PingFM integration.

As I said in one of my previous questions, something to allow others know in real time when someone is editing their answer. I don’t like answering someone, then going back to see that they’ve already edited their answer, which makes my answer look irrelevant.

Ability to reverse sort answers… I’m lazy.

@andrew—“Hot fluther action” – didn’t know it was that kind of site!

@johanna – The more interests and fields of expertise you add to your profile, the better Fluther will be at selecting “Questions for you” that you are interested in. Also, as you answer questions, the Fluther Gods will see what you are interested and magically sort out more questions for you. It gets better the longer you are here, but the Profile is important initially.

A way to check which questions you want to follow in the activity for you as oppose to every question you answer automatically going in there.

@mponochie You can choose to stop following a question, just in case you didn’t know that. Just click on the ‘stop following’ button next to the question in the ‘your activity’ page.

Check boxes next to “Questions I’m following” and “Questions for you” so that you can select more than one question to delete at a time. Like in your email.

This may sound rather minor but I’m hoping it’s very easy to implement.

Because I am on the iPhone a lot the lack of this feature gets increasingly annoying.

I’m referring to the fact that when you clink on a question to read it and later go back to the list of questions, you end up back at the top of the page no matter how far down the question that you clicked on was. This necessitates scrolling all the way back down to then read the next question and so forth.

It would make so much more sense if it would just return you to wherever on the page you were when you left it. Most other websites which I read do that automatically as a matter of course and I don’t know why Fluther doesn’t do this.

It does it on questions which you are following so you don’t have to scroll through all of what was previously read so I don’t know why this doesn’t happen consistently. Scrolling down a page on the iPhone is just SO ANNOYING.

It’s easy to get to the top of any page on the iPhone by simply tapping the top bar but the opposite for the bottom of the page doesn’t exist.

I would much prefer to read the questions in order from bottom to top but the absence of this one little feature makes it much more of a chore than it needs to be.

-I would like to see our profile pages get a tab system like the front page, ‘Comments’, ‘Questions’, and ‘Answers’. Three tabs instead of one long page.

-I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the Fluther app could be so awesome but right now it’s pretty lame. I’d like to see a more native app and not just a glorified web browser, it would be so cool to get push notifications amongst other things.

-It would be nice to have the option quote someone’s comment as well as just do the @name thing.

Other than those three things I’m very happy with the site’s functionality.

Why fuck with something that already works pretty well as it is?

There are plenty of other Q&A sites out there with what I like to call the “myspace” features.

I like Fluther because it’s not like all the rest.

Personally, I’d like the check boxes mentioned by @ubersiren and also a screening filter that allows me to block from view people whose questions and comments I don’t want to see (with a peek function, of course).

But the more stuff that’s added, the more complicated it gets and the more generic. I want fluther to stay fluther. I can’t help noticing how many changes are suggested by people who are brand new. They join, and two minutes later they ask for changes. Maybe there is a reason why people stay and stay and stay, and maybe it would be good to settle in and see what people love about the site before proposing changes.

It actually seems rude to me, like walking into somebody’s house and saying “Hello, thank you for having me, and now how about if we rearrange your furniture and improve your decor?”

Like @ubersiren and @Jeruba, I’d like some way of removing many questions held in “Activity for You” at once. Check boxes could work to select either the ones I want to delete or the ones I want to keep.

Another neat idea that I think has been mentioned before is a notification of when someone refers to your username. For example, since I mentioned @ubersiren and @Jeruba above, they should be notified that someone was talking about them. A lot of the time, I’m going back to questions just to see if someone is discussing my point specifically.

I’d also like checkboxes as Jeruba said so that you can remove some questions for you when you have a lot built up but not just all or one at a time.

It’s easy to delete pending questions for you, but not topics you are following. That would be nice.
Also, somehow show that the response has been edited.

The small pen showing that someone is making a comment in a post is great, but is not displayed correctly in Firefox. It’s dispalyed halfway between the rows.

@oratio shows up ok on Firefox with me.

@eponymoushipster oh? Then it is local. Hmm, I wonder what I might have done to cause that.

@oratio no idea. do you play around with greasemonkey or stylish? are you running the latest version of FF?

@eponymoushipster Yes, I run a couple of scripts, and have butchered every widget and bar. It’s just a clean window displaying nothing but the frame and the webpage. Funny since nothing else seems to be affected. But it’s something I’ve done. Mea Culpa.

@oratio i figured. no worries.

Fluther is perfect in every way.

There should be a way to know who marks your questions as “Great Answer”.

@mponochie No. I don’t agree. Why would that be relevant? It’s the comment you lurve, not the person. Instead you’ll get people lurving each other back and forth.

An ‘agree, disagree’ button on each reply with a counter.

Most recent posts should show first (at least on iPhone).

Maybe it would be better if you could decide how many lurve points to give, where 1 lurve is 1 point. Instead you choose between 1–5 how good the comment was.

i think “rating” another jelly’s quips is a slippery slope. it could turn things into a popularity contest, and it would turn up the learning curve on the site considerably.

Think how many new people come to the site and don’t even understand “lurving” when they get a proper answer. It would only be worse with a “lurve scale”.

don’t mess with the lurve

Oh, yeah… The Lurve thing…
I find I get a lot of lurve for comments made, and they don’t add to my Lurve count, apparently because whoever is giving me the Lurve is maxed out on giving it to me.
It is especially frustraiting when I get 7 Great Answers, and stay the same on points.
Can we bump up the allowed points, or find out who we have maxed out the Lurve to?

@filmfann Can you guess who just gave you lurve?

I know when I have given someone all the lurve they can receive when I lurve them and they don’t receive any more points.

@filmfann, that limitation was recently discussed at length here, if you’re interested. It’s easy to see whom you’ve maxed out on just by doing a little test. After a while it’s simply going to be everybody who’s not totally new or totally, uh, out of bounds for you.

I, for one, would be vigorously opposed to any changing of the limits because they protect the integrity of the site. Getting some GA’s that don’t score is the result of that, and it’s much better than having fluther become about points and scoring and competition.

The only modification that might be good is that instead of having only the first 5 GA’s count toward your score (for a potential increase of zero if they are all from people who’ve maxed out on you), the first five scoring GA’s should count. But I’m not even sure about that. Yes, it makes it much, much harder to increase after some point—the slope levels way off—but what is wrong with that? It’s pretty true to life.

I’d like some way to see who has given Lurve on a particular Q or A.

I’d prefer an ‘Agree/ Dissagre’ button where choosing ‘Agree’ gives lurve.

Knowing who gave Lurve or agreed with content helps one to learn their fellow Flutherites’ positions and personalities. This makes it possible to know who’s input should be taken more seriously or less seriously.

@Noel_S_Leitmotiv yeah, that totally would defeat the purpose of lurve. what’s more, it would make things, as i’ve already said, into a popularity contest. and anyone who agreed with someone, perhaps without even weighing in themselves, would be made a target.

don’t mess with the lurve.

I just think it would help put the Lurve I recieve in perspective.

Let’s say I get lurve on a comment about taxes. If im able to trace one of my Lurve points to a Flutherite that happens to be an accountant, then I could see that thier Lurve is based on an expert opinion.

Or lets say I see that a user loves to toss out the terms ‘Douche’ or ‘Asshat’, I might reconsider their imput.

I agree with @eponymoushipster, that would be a bad idea.

@Noel_S_Leitmotiv…and that’s exactly why it’s a bad idea. thanks for making my point.

just because someone is or isn’t an accountant does make their input more or less valuable, for example. the whole point of “the collective” is that everyone has knowledge and an opinion. look at people who are supposed “experts” in the financial market (and i’m not looking to start a fork on that topic, so don’t). they ended up knowing absolutely nothing; they were talking out their ass.

and if someone applies those terms to you, then maybe you either need to simply ignore the person or examine for what reasons they’re being applied to you

Yes, I see my proposal would be counter to Fluther’s premise.

I’d like to see a “comments for you” type of thing that lets me know when someone has responded to something I wrote. I generally don’t have a big list of posts I’m following in order to keep up.

Would there be a point of having a “Best Answer” to every thread? Would that make people put more effort into making a good answer, or is it unfluthery?

@oratio I’m probably not the best judge of flutherness but that would be a little too ‘yahoo answers-ish’ for me.

@J0E True. But a good feature is a good feature, and this would never be yahoo IMO. But I was just throwing it out there. Fluther is very good as it is.

A forum would be nice.

the whole site is a forum.

I would like to know who is online…however I am new to this I’m not sure if that is already available or not. but that would be nice

Welcome to fluther @LuhvKiller! Have 5 lurve on me!

@XOIIO Thank you!!!

No prob!

I would love to have a similar layout as Ravelry, wherein, instead of just clicking “Great Answer”, you can click “Educational”, “Agree”, “Disagree”, “Interesting”, “Funny” and “Love” (love, for me would = GA).

I could see a similar system employed here, with each click generating lurve (except for Disagree, probably), and thus giving us a better idea of why people are giving us lurve, and perhaps guiding the discussion better.

Just an idea!

I love love love @johnpowell‘s suggestion of blocking certain users, especially their questions. Can I get on my knees and beg for this feature. Please!?

@jonsblond And some of those people seem to be asking a gazillion questions a day, don’t they?

@janbb haha….always the same topic too ;)

I know who you are talking about. Get a job already.

Really.. Sheesh!

I second the motion :)

snobs ^