Comments on: Nice redesign

Nice redesign

mrbula — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:43:36 -0800

Nice redesign.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:46:26 -0800

ow ow ow my EYES!!!

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:46:31 -0800

is that a permanent thing or a April fool? is 006699 gone for good?

By: Apoch

Apoch — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:47:06 -0800

*curls up into a ball* cannot... take... the shock.... where... is.... metafilter...

By: Tarrama

Tarrama — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:47:36 -0800

the light! the light! the blinding light!

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:48:26 -0800

I almost had a heart attack!

By: RylandDotNet

RylandDotNet — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:50:34 -0800

I like it. I never was a big fan of that mustard-links-on-blue-background thing.

By: StOne

StOne — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:51:15 -0800

Good one, Matt!

By: Tarrama

Tarrama — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:51:15 -0800

I hope this is Matt's April fools prank, if it is thank you Matt I really needed something in a "lighter" vein after the post by Bluetrain

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:51:18 -0800

yeah, what's the date today again.....?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:51:38 -0800

Too bad those humps at Kuro5hin didn't reciprocate. Woulda given those geeks a heart attack. :)

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:52:11 -0800

I get it! It's an April Fool's Day joke, following the Kuro5hin/MetaFilter merger hoax! It looks like Kuro5hin and it's got the 4 to prove it.

For a moment there I was frightened. Damn you Matt and damn you Rusty and your "no comment" come-on!

Brilliant! :)

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:54:00 -0800

It's funny, but please return to the soothing blue color scheme ASAP. For some reason, this brings to mind those studies that suggest prison walls should be painted in calming tones to keep the inmates happier and less likely to riot, so don't be surprised if we see a lot of flame wars today.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:55:09 -0800

Not only brilliant, but done in an impressively short amount of time.

By: NsJen

NsJen — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:57:26 -0800

Too bad those humps at Kuro5hin didn't reciprocate. Woulda given those geeks a heart attack. :)

Go look again *laugh*

Brilliantly done!

By: chipr

chipr — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:57:59 -0800

Psssssst.

By: thunder

thunder — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:58:37 -0800

Next April Fools' Day... MetaFark?

By: Tarrama

Tarrama — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:58:45 -0800

It just goes to show that Matt has a cunning little plan. We would never be able to stay and read metafilter for as long if it wasn't for the normal easy-on-the-eye colour scheme.

By: heather

heather — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:59:18 -0800

bravo matt!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:02:59 -0800

NSjen- I only they had adopted our design if only for a few hours...'tis not to be though. Bravo anyways, big man.

By: riffola

riffola — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:04:26 -0800

"And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell kuro5hin that they may take our big blue, but they'll never take our grey area."

By: NsJen

NsJen — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:06:00 -0800

jonmc, I was hoping. *sadistic grin*

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:14:39 -0800

please make it stop :(

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:16:33 -0800

What the HELL are you are talking about?
; )

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:18:54 -0800

The beauty of it is, I'm 99% sure it's bull, but that one damned % is driving me nuts.

By: metrocake

metrocake — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:20:29 -0800

I...I...I...

Put it back, please?! <:(

By: Tarrama

Tarrama — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:21:01 -0800

same here Doug, its that worrying little niggle isn't it

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:27:16 -0800

Tarrama, I've been thinking the same thing..but I imagine Matt is sitting in his chair in San Francisco laughing his ass of at us right now...

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:27:40 -0800

good god...

By: sixtwenty3dc

sixtwenty3dc — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:29:54 -0800

gahh. you got me. happy april fools day.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:30:43 -0800

you guys should see the fun going on at jish's... it's strange, 'cause i go to that site about twice a year, and i thought i clicked the wrong link for a second.

By: Tarrama

Tarrama — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:55:06 -0800

I think you might be right Jon. Good onya Matt!

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:04:19 -0800

I guess I can't stop thinking that the ultimate April Fools Joke would be to announce something that seems like an obvious joke, but isn't.

But then, I've eaten a whole lot of sugar and caffeine today (Chocolate Bunnies!), so hopefully my paranoia is chemical in nature, and everything will be A-OK tomorrow.

By: readymade

readymade — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:16:57 -0800

How can I not love this?
Brilliant...

By: readymade

readymade — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:32:25 -0800

WAIT a minute....is it real? Is it a dream? What's happening here?!!!!!

[checks pulse; looks at date; reads weird links and sites; remains lost in a strange, strange world. Oh, April 1, when will you ever end?]

By: Tarrama

Tarrama — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:34:08 -0800

oh no! what if Doug's right...what if its not the chocolate bunnies causing the paranoia...what if...

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:55:08 -0800

While it's a problem that would (presumably) only last one day, am I the only one who can't log into the front page any more? I came home tonight, checked out MeFi, saw the change, but couldn't log in. Can log in and out of metatalk fine.

By: Electric Elf

Electric Elf — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:56:18 -0800

You know, I rather like the new design, but that smart comment about pancakes in the header tipped me off. Matt and Rusty...you 0wn. ^^

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:58:46 -0800

Sorry, scratch that, I'm an idiot who forgot he leaves cookies completely blocked on all sites.

Like the joke, though- funny stuff, funny stuff.

By: bjgeiger

bjgeiger — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 03:33:20 -0800

If it is not April Fool, I need a large magnifer. But since it seems to be a wide spread thing I will pray for joke and deal with it if not. I wonder how long it took to contrive this liitle plan?

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:35:05 -0800

I'll tell you one thing: however attractive it may have been for the minute I spent navigating it, coming to MetaTalk and seeing the regular format was like a homecoming.

By: sheauga

sheauga — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:57:34 -0800

We would never be able to stay and read metafilter for as long if it wasn't for the normal easy-on-the-eye colour scheme.

My thoughts exactly. I think the color scheme may have been a large part of this site's success. Perhaps a humanitarian concern for obsessive posters should be more important than creating a great collective work of art?

By: bunnyfire

bunnyfire — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 06:06:00 -0800

*sound of head hitting keyboard in a dead faint*

By: bunnyfire

bunnyfire — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 06:14:37 -0800

Guys, this is not a joke. Check out the date on the bottom.

Check out Rusty's link for the full story.

I've been increasingly busy over the last few months, too busy to keep up with the code, and too busy to admin the entire site. In the past few weeks, you've probably seen more than one bug not get fixed and you've probably seen me freak out on someone when they didn't deserve it. My time is short, and I can't dedicate the necessary time and money to the site. The more I looked at Kuro5hin's scoop code that runs their site, the more ideas I got for an implementation at MetaFilter. In case you've never seen the scoop engine, it's quite a bit more advanced than the stuff you might see at slashdot. Readers can rate any posting, sort posts on several sets of criteria, and the stories on the index page only get there after being voted up by the members. It goes way beyond simple filtering and reputation management, as you end up with a truly democratic, emergent system running the site.

I talked to Rusty at sxsw about a migration of MetaFilter over to scoop, and we kept talking. K5 has a hardware sponsor, and we discussed moving over to some free linux boxes, and it grew from there. Eventually we both asked ourselves, how much difference would there be between MeFi and k5 if they were functionally the same? Last week, Rusty found an anonymous donor, emailed me an offer, which I accepted after seeing the correct number of zeros in it.

As part of the acquisition, first off the name has been changed. We agreed to do this just a few days ago, to ease the transition to the new server hardware and software. K5 and the new M4 may even reside together at a new url (currently codenamed O3), with the two userbases joined. That last part is still up in the air.

Anyway, now that M4 is part of Kuro5hin's new network, I'll still be around to admin the site, and after the migration to the scoop engine and linux boxen, the need for me around will greatly diminish, as you will get to pick what shows and what goes on the future version of MetaFilter. Thanks to all, it's been a fun ride.
posted by mathowie at 10:26 PM PST on March 31

By: bunnyfire

bunnyfire — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 06:26:20 -0800

On the other hand....I just got taken in, didn't I?

matt, you are a very bad boy!!!!!

By: briank

briank — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 06:30:43 -0800

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I don't know which is funnier, this or the "announcement" that Pud Kaplan just got $18m from idealab.

Oh, and Paul McCartney is dead.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 07:25:39 -0800

You know, the sidebar (for page holder, etc) didn't get a makeover. :P

By: Perigee

Perigee — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 07:29:09 -0800

The Phantom Menace has arrived!!! Now... ~evil smile~ Leave it like this for a few days, and increase the paranoia...

By: Geo

Geo — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:43:35 -0800

Someone please send me a magnifying glass so I can read the page. I am sure there are characters on there somewhere. Squinting...

By: bittennails

bittennails — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:38:23 -0800

I really really miss the recent comments dropdown, now I got to wade thru everything......

By: laz-e-boy

laz-e-boy — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 13:22:05 -0800

The new design is great! Makes it much easier to surf MeFi at work!

By: Spoon

Spoon — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 13:57:32 -0800

but what if....