Does Ask MetaFilter have an RSS feed?

December 10, 2003 5:28 PM

Ask is very cool - but where's the RSS?
posted by LukeyBoy to Feature Requests at 5:28 PM (15 comments total)

Was just wondering the same thing. Ask Metafilter is much more fun than studying for tomorrow's anatomy exam!
posted by gramcracker at 6:08 PM on December 10, 2003

Also agree this is cool. But why is there no link on the Front page and Meta page top nav bar?
posted by billsaysthis at 6:47 PM on December 10, 2003

RSS? Never heard of it.

There's a link on the nav bar of MetaTalk. I'll work it into MetaFilter more when the development is farther along.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:16 PM on December 10, 2003

RSS? Never heard of it.
What is RSS? Here's an example file.
posted by riffola at 7:36 PM on December 10, 2003

Nope, still drawing a blank.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:44 PM on December 10, 2003

Goin' straight to Atom, are we?
posted by timeistight at 7:56 PM on December 10, 2003

Fine here. I put it in the header of the page for auto-discovery as well.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:57 PM on December 10, 2003

Good choice of the URL mathowie, that was my first guess earlier :-) Thanks.
posted by LukeyBoy at 7:59 PM on December 10, 2003

Ask is very cool - You said a mouthful, boy. Thanks Matt for this sweeeeeet feature.
posted by vito90 at 8:08 PM on December 10, 2003

No kidding. This is the most exciting thing I've seen on Metafilter in quite some time. It's got the communal feeling of the off-topic conversations of MetaTalk, except with actual purposes!
posted by UKnowForKids at 9:40 PM on December 10, 2003

Thanks Matt!
posted by riffola at 9:48 PM on December 10, 2003

Ask is indeed fantastic. It's a great problem-solver and the idea is so good people are asking and responding away with exactly the right spirit. No chat, no jokes, no acrimony. Just sharing. Beautiful, in fact. You know something's good when all you hope for is that it doesn't change. Thanks Matt!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:00 PM on December 10, 2003

Which of course, means it's eventually going to change, once it gets old enough to develop its own chat, in-jokes and acrimony.

On the plus side, once that happens, I finally get something to bitch about having been better in the good old days.
posted by arto at 10:41 PM on December 10, 2003

Which of course, means it's eventually going to change, once it gets old enough to develop its own chat, in-jokes and acrimony.

I'm doing my best to stop it, having deleted a couple dozen jokey comments and half a dozen dumb questions since it launched. It's successful because of the lack of jokey crap, and when I redo the site soon, I will make it very clear that any comments should be answers to someone's question, and little else.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:01 AM on December 11, 2003

Good idea, Matt. Normally I'm a fan of the notion that injokes, etc., promote community cohesion, but in this case AxMe already has a community attached.

Is there some way to view the deleted questions? I assume you're eventually coming out with guidelines as to what is/isn't a good question for AxMe, but in the meantime it might be nice to have some idea of what you consider an outright waste of time. F'rinstance, I've been thinking of posting a question that was more or less 80% answered by a couple of earlier ones, but thought being more specific might ferret out that other 20%--is something like the Blue's double post rule in effect?
posted by arto at 3:00 PM on December 11, 2003