the new contacts page is leaving me wanting...

May 22, 2008 10:53 AM

the new contacts page is leaving me wanting...

even though I'm acquaintanted with myself and dare say I am developing a little crush on this cute guy I see in the mirror I just can't express that on my contacts page. I am fairly certain I've also met myself, though my memory is a little bit cloudy on that.

matt? help? please?

(I also can't ignore myself but that might have something to do with my size.)

posted by krautland to feature requests at 10:53 AM (20 comments total)

Nah.
posted by Plutor at 10:57 AM on May 22, 2008

Yeah, we removed the contact yourself thing when we revamped it, which seems logical to me. I think pb explained it in the original thread about it. Something about it being too risky to leave that around, for fear of everyone contacting themselves, turning the site into itself and causing the server to create a black hole that could swallow the universe.
posted by mathowie at 10:58 AM on May 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

It is possible to add yourself as a contact. Although you won't show up in the list of people who you have linked to and people who have linked to you.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:00 AM on May 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

That you can (or could?) add yourself as a contact at all is (was?) an edge-case bug, not something to design the new contacts page around.

If there are specific useful things that the contacting-yourself trick makes possible, it's probably fine to talk about those features as things we could consider adding to the intended functionality of the site, but that's a different sack of monkeys entirely.
posted by cortex at 11:00 AM on May 22, 2008

It's a simple hack, but we're all navel-gazing enough as it is, don't you think?
posted by jessamyn at 11:00 AM on May 22, 2008

Also, that swallowing-the-universe thing that Matt mentioned.
posted by cortex at 11:01 AM on May 22, 2008

we're all navel-gazing enough as it is, don't you think?

what can I say ... I just can't get enough of myself.
posted by krautland at 11:02 AM on May 22, 2008

Oh, hey, new lint!
posted by cortex at 11:02 AM on May 22, 2008

Oh, hey, new lint!

You know where you can put that?
posted by dersins at 11:04 AM on May 22, 2008

Hey, I like my navel!
posted by pjern at 11:06 AM on May 22, 2008

They've got cool orange socks at Old Navel.
posted by Dizzy at 11:12 AM on May 22, 2008

But the ability to search favorites by username would not be navel gazing.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:47 AM on May 22, 2008

I think maybe we should implement a new "search favorites by banning Brandon Blatcher if he doesn't cut that shit out" feature.
posted by cortex at 11:59 AM on May 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

If Blatcher is banned, can I have his train set?
posted by Dizzy at 12:17 PM on May 22, 2008

That you can (or could?) add yourself as a contact at all is (was?) an edge-case bug

No, it ain't. "me" is a supported value of the "rel" attribute in xfn 1.1.
posted by timeistight at 12:18 PM on May 22, 2008

WELL I GUESS WE SHOULD JUST RENAME THIS PLACE 'XFN1.1FILTER' THEN

or, if you prefer, WELL WHY DON'T YOU MARRY IT
posted by cortex at 12:26 PM on May 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Standards are great: let's make up a bunch.
posted by timeistight at 12:37 PM on May 22, 2008

Well, first of all, there goalposts need some wheels fitting.
posted by Jofus at 11:28 PM on May 22, 2008

I am developing a little crush on this cute guy I see in the mirror

That's actually me. Its like ventriloquism, only at lightspeed.
posted by Sparx at 2:43 AM on May 23, 2008

The thing about having yourself as a contact (and I too am among the super-vain who've exploited the "edge case") is that you then finally see what other people see about what you've been doing, boring and mundane as that may be. i_am_joe's_spleen had a best answer in Is "bonzer" bonzer? 9 days ago. Awesome!

When cortex says "If there are specific useful things that the contacting-yourself trick makes possible, it's probably fine to talk about those features as things we could consider adding", my response is, O wad mathowie the giftie gie us, to see oursels as others see us.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 3:46 AM on May 23, 2008