Comments on: look at you people!

look at you people!

jessamyn — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:25:37 -0800

We've added a widget for checking out Meetup photos without having to leave placeholder comments in meetup threads. Check the MeTa sidebar. It works like this: threads posted to the MeFi gatherings category have a little sidebar box in them (example). You can put URLs in them for meetup photo pages. Right now they post with a link to the name of the person who added the URL and that may need tweaking. Then there is a week's worth of past meetups on the mai MeTa sidebar. Threads with photos have the little pictures icon. This will also show up on the big past meetups page.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:29:22 -0800

That's pretty cool. Can we have it in AskMe too? You know, for pictures of our cats.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:39:57 -0800

OMG Christmas stalkings!

By: pjern

pjern — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:53:06 -0800

you guys are just wondrous, there's no better word for it :)

By: chrismear

chrismear — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:02:59 -0800

Crazy awesome. I feel so privileged to have been present here during these end times, the final convergence of MetaTalk functionality with the meetup singularity.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:43:53 -0800

I didn't notice this until I had left a placeholder comment. BUT I think I like having placeholder comments too, so you can say a little more (e.g. "here's why they're funny looking") and so you can see when they were posted.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:29:45 -0800

Wow, I noticed that today and thought I had just missed the announcement. I went back and added a URL to our Brisbane meetup thread - this is an awesome addition! All the cool javascriptyajaximification is really cool to look at, too :)

Am I the only one who has learnt most of my javascript from reading the Mefi source code?

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:35:36 -0800

Mmmmm, widgety!

By: thetenthstory

thetenthstory — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:30:55 -0800

Nice.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:01:06 -0800

Needs more Ajax. And gradients.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:41:23 -0800

That is very, very cool! Thanks!

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:03:48 -0800

I'm going back to a few of the previous NYC meetups and tagging the photos...I guess it'll look like I took all the photos at every meetup. Oh well, hope nobody minds.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:24:06 -0800

OMG awesoem.

That was an accidental typo but I'm going to leave it because it's sufficiently awesome to merit a new word.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:33:03 -0800

Cool. The only bit that's a bit off is that some of the links to past meetups jump you into the middle of the thread, where the location is decided, but the photos are at the top.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:50:38 -0800

Huh. Good point, smackfu. Maybe we could strip anchors from the links on the pictures icon.

By: bluishorange

bluishorange — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:05:01 -0800

Sweet, thanks!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:35:27 -0800

pb just auto-stripped the anchor targets, so smackfu, that feature is done!

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:20:57 -0800

Thank you for adding this feature!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:05:55 -0800

WOW. That is really cool. Thanks!

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:34:55 -0800

I like.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:00:12 -0800

that feature is done

MeFi is like this magical place where I get to be the complaining user, instead of the developer that has to fix things.

By: SassHat

SassHat — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:34:02 -0800

Interesting note about this - if a meetup is still under "Upcoming meetups" and there are pictures linked, the neat little photo icon does not show up. The TO meetup had to happen prematurely due to a snowblizzardstorm, so it's over and pics are up but no pic icon. Just a note, not a gripe.