Has the Projects site worked as intended?

November 29, 2005 12:06 PM

Has the MetaFilter Projects site worked as intended yet? In other words, how many posted projects have been linked to from the front page?
posted by Robot Johnny to MetaFilter-Related at 12:06 PM (25 comments total)

I thought about posting easternblot, but didn't for some reason.
posted by grouse at 12:13 PM on November 29, 2005

hush! the emperor does have pants!
posted by quonsar at 12:29 PM on November 29, 2005

I posted about the phantom PC prank program the first week. I'm going to add a "post to mefi" link on the votes pages, to make it easier.

There are 4-5 worthy sites posted so far I'd say.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:32 PM on November 29, 2005

That prank program truly is best of the web.
posted by puke & cry at 12:45 PM on November 29, 2005

It works for my insomnia.
posted by mischief at 12:47 PM on November 29, 2005

A "post to mefi" link would be cool -- especially if, once posted, there was something to identify the project as having been posted.
posted by Robot Johnny at 12:48 PM on November 29, 2005

Yeah, a post to mefi link would auto-populate the posting form. Here, I'll just make it now. Ok, done.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:04 PM on November 29, 2005

Awesomeness! I like the auto-tag and auto-via as well!
posted by Robot Johnny at 1:15 PM on November 29, 2005

Mefi projects = blogroots.

Just sayin'.

=)
posted by justgary at 1:19 PM on November 29, 2005

Nice, Matt. But maybe the "post to mefi" link should be suppressed for the owner of the project?
posted by Galvatron at 1:26 PM on November 29, 2005

Yeah, good point. Members that post something don't see a vote or post to mefi link on the votes page.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:58 PM on November 29, 2005

I saw that mattr's post card project, "Found Mattr," was posted in a mutli-link post by cmonkey. I don't know whether it was inspired by mattr's Projects post though.
posted by terrapin at 2:19 PM on November 29, 2005

Is projects finished? It still feels a bit like a bolt on - the colour scheme (esp. white background) and that strange font rather than a traditional Mefi logo.
posted by fire&wings at 3:09 PM on November 29, 2005

Also, why no comments on the projects? Would be great to discuss and offer feedback on them. I bet this has been covered.
posted by fire&wings at 3:10 PM on November 29, 2005

fire&wings: I think maybe it should work in a two-stage way (as it seems to by accident or intention). You present a good enough idea to get vaulted to MetaFilter, then you are granted the commentary.
posted by Captaintripps at 3:18 PM on November 29, 2005

But maybe the "post to mefi" link should be suppressed for the owner of the project?

You can do this?

Not that I ever would. Really.
posted by cedar at 3:40 PM on November 29, 2005

I saw that mattr's post card project, "Found Mattr," was posted in a mutli-link post by cmonkey. I don't know whether it was inspired by mattr's Projects post though.

Yes, it was, and I should have mentioned that in the post.
posted by cmonkey at 3:40 PM on November 29, 2005

Will Projects eventually conform to the rest of Mefi as far as design is concerned? I really feel as if I left metafilter and went to a weird Bizarro metafilter where the design is different and everyone is self-linking.
posted by geoff. at 3:42 PM on November 29, 2005

What's the point of voting on projects when there's just a post to MeFi button? What purpose do the votes serve?
posted by xmutex at 3:49 PM on November 29, 2005

I'd suggest removing the post-to-MeFi link once something has been posted to the front page, as well. Otherwise, we've got our very first double-post generator.

How convenient!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:57 PM on November 29, 2005

What's the point of voting on projects when there's just a post to MeFi button? What purpose do the votes serve?

1) More votes may win the Big Prize

2) You can let people know how cool you are, by voting for something other people also like
posted by Rothko at 4:10 PM on November 29, 2005

I'd suggest removing the post-to-MeFi link once something has been posted to the front page, as well. Otherwise, we've got our very first double-post generator.

If you click the button on a project that's already been posted, it shows you the usual "link already posted" warning straight away. This seems good enough to me.
posted by cillit bang at 5:00 PM on November 29, 2005

Fair enough. Still, some kinda visual clue ('This project has been posted to Metafilter proper' kinda thing) that it'd already been submitted would probably be good, useability-wise, for someone thinking about submitting it to the blue.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:49 PM on November 29, 2005

I thought about posting easternblot, but didn't for some reason.

It's an honor just to be considered for the blue!
posted by easternblot at 10:40 PM on November 29, 2005

Also, why no comments on the projects? Would be great to discuss and offer feedback on them. I bet this has been covered.
Seconded. Or n+1^ed as case may be.
posted by boo_radley at 1:32 AM on November 30, 2005