Comments on: My AskMe?

My AskMe?

five fresh fish — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:05:13 -0800

Matt, we desperately need a "My AskMe" sort of deal. Things are scrolling so damn fast that it's nearly impossible to keep track of the good stuff.

By: docpops

docpops — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:06:12 -0800

seconded

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:06:44 -0800

And it needs to be a touch different than the MeFi version; there are many threads I want to monitor, because they are questions I'd like an answer to, but have nothing useful to contribute. Ergo, no post of my own to track it.

Please, please, please?

By: deborah

deborah — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:08:15 -0800

Thirded. I hope something is going to be implemented with the redesign.

By: docpops

docpops — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:08:36 -0800

thirded, i think

op, crap

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:08:48 -0800

I don't disagree with you guys, but...

Couldn't one of the numerous MeFi code monkeys write a firefox extension to do this pretty easily?

By: docpops

docpops — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:12:11 -0800

Hey, we're talking something a lot more complex than your routine, run-of-the-mill Gimballed Helicopter Test Bed, here, Chuckles.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:13:35 -0800

Chuckles writes "Couldn't one of the numerous MeFi code monkeys write a firefox extension to do this pretty easily?"

Well, probably.

But I think the browser coders did this already: why not just bookmark the posts of interest, in a bookmark folder called "ask Mefi"?

I mean, any solution would require you to mark the post "of interest" somehow -- right clicking and adding a bookmark seems not to be too onerous.

By: librarina

librarina — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:24:18 -0800

I just started using Thunderbird for email and subscribed to the AskMe RSS feed as well. I delete all but the ones I want to keep checking up on for an answer (rather than because I want to contribute, like five fresh fish says). Once they've been answered to my satisfaction I sometimes bookmark them in del.icio.us.

But another way to do this would be lovely.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:28:53 -0800

I've got a working favorites system on a ask mefi test page, which works like flickr's favorites. I was going to extend it to work across the entire site, and let you see all your favorites, site-wide, and favorites by section only, etc.

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:01:14 -0800

All I need is an RSS feed for each thread. Then Bloglines will take care of the rest for me...

By: Plutor

Plutor — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:32:12 -0800

Chuckles: "Couldn't one of the numerous MeFi code monkeys write a firefox extension to do this pretty easily?"

Here's a really, really alpha Greasemonkey script. It probably won't go much farther, since Matt's got something a-brewing.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:08:37 -0800

This is more likely to annoy than solve anything, but Bloglines + del.icio.us/askmetafilter is working for me.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:56:20 -0800

I've noticed a large number of people posting in threads just to flag them so that they don't lose them later. That seems to me to be a really noisy, annoying hack (although I've been guilty of it.) ... and probably means that we could use a pony.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:07:54 -0800

I second what grouse said. IMO, per user/thread feeds are definitely the way to go.

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:01:31 -0800

I use the askme tag instead of askmetafilter. Hooray for the idiosyncrasies of folksonomies!

By: MLIS

MLIS — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:02:52 -0800

I prefer the AxMe tag.