Triviathis blog

Triviathis is expanding rapidly. We have a bunch of new stuff:

• More questions: we've grown to over 5000 questions!
• Search: Triviathis now has a search function. The search looks through the text of answers, question text and associated tags.
• Layout: we had a slight facelift

Check out some Thanksgiving trivia to play around the holidays.

Soon we'll be adding a lot of new functionality:

• Search: search for a keyword and get trivia based on that
• User pages: share information about yourself with the community
• Embed and share: share trivia questions outside of triviathis. Post them on other websites and share the fun
• Group play version: we're working on a version of the site that you can use to play with a group. It's designed to be used for two or more people and you can play it on a big projector too if you want. Questions will be timed and the answer and explanation will be revealed when the timer runs out. You can click at your own pace to proceed to the next question.

We've added one new feature: Show/Hide answered questions. Previously if you answered a question it disappeared forever and you had to logout to view it. We've now added a link at the top right above the "logout" button (you must be logged in to see it) to show all the questions you've already answered. You can answer these questions again and again as many times as you want. It will not count for or aganist your score in any way.

We've added two new features:

• Random trivia: A random trivia button to the main navigation that you can hit anytime to get a random set of questions
• Less spam: There is now a CAPTCHA on the new user signup page to prevent automated signups and spam from creeping into Triviathis. We haven't had any problems with this yet, but it is a preventative measure to ensure quality.

We hit over 100 questions today! Absurdly rapid growth expected.. stay tuned.

Triviathis's uses span beyond just making everyday interesting trivia questions:

• Use it as a study aid. Create questions for yourself or to share with your classmates to study from like a practice test. Tag them with the title of your course or class name. Need to answer a question more than once? Just log out.
• Learn things you didn't know in a different way. Have a topic you're curious about? Search or find a tag that matches what you're interested in and answer some trivia on it.
• Tell the world something interesting that you couldn't put elsewhere on the web. Wikipedia is designed for very encyclopedia-ish knowledge, not trivia. Blogs aren't always well read or very good mediums for putting together information. Triviathis is the perfect place to put a fact that you may not find anywhere else.

We've added a couple things:

• Question creator (user) shows up in question info area
• Question rules, guidelines and general help
• A brief privacy policy
• An RSS feed for the homepage so you can monitor by RSS when we get new questions