My AskMe?

April 22, 2005 10:05 AM

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.
posted by five fresh fish to Feature Requests at 10:05 AM (16 comments total)

seconded
posted by docpops at 10:06 AM on April 22, 2005

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?
posted by five fresh fish at 10:06 AM on April 22, 2005

Thirded. I hope something is going to be implemented with the redesign.
posted by deborah at 10:08 AM on April 22, 2005

thirded, i think

op, crap
posted by docpops at 10:08 AM on April 22, 2005

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?
posted by Chuckles at 10:08 AM on April 22, 2005

Hey, we're talking something a lot more complex than your routine, run-of-the-mill Gimballed Helicopter Test Bed, here, Chuckles.
posted by docpops at 10:12 AM on April 22, 2005

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.
posted by orthogonality at 10:13 AM on April 22, 2005

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.
posted by librarina at 10:24 AM on April 22, 2005

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.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:28 AM on April 22, 2005

All I need is an RSS feed for each thread. Then Bloglines will take care of the rest for me...
posted by grouse at 11:01 AM on April 22, 2005

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.
posted by Plutor at 11:32 AM on April 22, 2005

This is more likely to annoy than solve anything, but Bloglines + del.icio.us/askmetafilter is working for me.
posted by brownpau at 12:08 PM on April 22, 2005

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.
posted by SpecialK at 12:56 PM on April 22, 2005

I second what grouse said. IMO, per user/thread feeds are definitely the way to go.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:07 PM on April 22, 2005

I use the askme tag instead of askmetafilter. Hooray for the idiosyncrasies of folksonomies!
posted by grouse at 3:01 PM on April 22, 2005

I prefer the AxMe tag.
posted by mlis at 7:02 PM on April 22, 2005