On the monthly archives pages it is much easier to find out the time of day a post was made than the date a post was made. I think time of day and date should be equally accessible by listing both on the "posted by" line.
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posted by clorox
on Feb 9, 2013 -
7 comments
There is a certain kind of website that has always brought me great joy…expansive, idiosyncratic, under-the-radar, well-edited, weirdly-colored goldmines of information on
something. Help prospect the MeFi archives for goldmines.
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posted by silby
on Jul 11, 2011 -
59 comments
I know we're all excited about tags at the moment but
this comment got me looking at the 'MetaFilter gatherings' category.
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posted by tellurian
on Oct 30, 2008 -
12 comments
Is there any way to browse the Ask archives a day at a time? Browsing by date (e.g. http://ask.metafilter.com/archived.mefi/10/01/2006/ ) currently brings up an entire month at a time, which is rather unwieldy.
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posted by kristi
on Jun 26, 2008 -
12 comments
In Projects -- The popular links for "March" include projects from March '06.
posted by empath
on Mar 6, 2007 -
9 comments
Sidebar: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago... 6, 7? I mean, I can type it in manually, but I figured I'd suggest it and see if enough people want it. And I'm not saying to go on indefinitely, could turn into "1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15 years ago" over time, as per mathowie's decendants' wishes.
posted by Eideteker
on Jan 15, 2007 -
33 comments
Stupid question time: Is there a way to see old sidebar entries? I apologize if this has been asked before, but I searched Yahoo! and checked the FAQ and the wiki, and found nothing. Specifically, I'm looking for a sidebarred AskMe post about gift suggestions for a strange and quirky family. Thanks!
posted by Faint of Butt
on Dec 20, 2006 -
16 comments
having stumbled through the wiki and come out no wiser, a query: is there anywhere a concise source for metafilter history? i'm particularly interested in how the 5$ fee came to be conceived, and the effects (short-, mid- & long-term) it had on the blue/green/grey.
posted by progosk
on Dec 8, 2006 -
59 comments
Is there a quick and simple way to view all the projects I've ever voted for? I vaguely recall someone asking about votes in people's profiles ("...and voted for # projects") but I can't find it (or the answer)
Now that we have our favorites so nicely organized, I wanted to go back and find the projects I had previously voted for, because some of those were probably things I would also want to favorite.
I'm clicking all over the site (profile, projects, comments, favorites) and can't find what I want...
posted by easternblot
on Jun 26, 2006 -
9 comments
Pony: Year included in the posted by line. With the year a posting was made appearing only once at the top of the page browsing the archives can be confusing. [MI]
For example how about changing the posted by line to:
posted by
Mitheral at
7:38 PM MST on 2006/06/04 [
+fave] [!]
or:
posted by
Mitheral at 2006/06/04
7:38 PM MST [
+fave] [!]
Neither of those is longer than the worst case of :
posted by
Mitheral at
5:58 AM MST on September 30 [
+fave] [!]
posted by Mitheral
on Jun 6, 2006 -
48 comments
FeatureRequest: MeFi bookmarks. I would love, on AskMeFi and MeFi, to be able to click "bookmark this link", and then be able to go to a page that lists those links I have bookmarked. Ideally sortable by post date and last comment date, searchable by keyword, but the sort/search isn't totally necessary.
"Why not bookmark it in IE/Mozilla?" Well, call me picky but I really prefer to reserve browser bookmarks for main pages of sites I visit ALL the time (i.e. MeFi/AskMeFi). It'd be nice to have a local archive of the stuff I'm tracking and want to keep coming back to.
posted by twiggy
on Dec 29, 2005 -
21 comments
Is there a way to see archived posts in Ask MeFi more than 30 days old by category? If not, it seems like an extremely useful feature--perhaps even show ALL posts by category and then just do "older results" at the bottom of the page on and on until the beginning of MeFi time...
posted by shivohum
on Dec 10, 2005 -
2 comments
I don't think the archives page on projects.metafilter.com is working...
posted by ph00dz
on Nov 21, 2005 -
5 comments
When I try to page through
my AskMe archives by clicking "next," the same results start each page and some older ones are added to the end.
posted by callmejay
on Nov 13, 2005 -
8 comments
Is there a way to view the AskMe category archives beyond a month?
posted by o2b
on Nov 3, 2005 -
2 comments
So, uh, when you check through your old Ask.Me threads that you've posted in, and use the numbers at the bottom to skip pages (or the "Next" link)? It totally doesn't work (perhaps the offset variable is broken?). Firefox and IE. Just FYI.
posted by fishfucker
on Sep 9, 2005 -
6 comments
Occasionally I like to trawl through the MetaTalk archives. There used to be a link on the front to 'current archives' then 'all archives' but that seems to have disappeared with the introduction of the 'next' and 'previous' links. [more inside]
posted by tellurian
on Jul 14, 2005 -
7 comments
Is there any history of banishment here? And if so, what happened to cause being banned? In all my years of visiting, I have never read about an actual occurance of this.
I did a couple of searches and came up with nothing.
posted by snsranch
on Jul 7, 2005 -
126 comments
When I try to view the askme archives by category, I can only view the most recent page of questions in that category. Is this just me being mentally challenged?
posted by LittleMissCranky
on Jun 30, 2005 -
5 comments
When
viewing a category in AskMe, it defaults to the last 30 days. Unfortunately, it seems to neglect to show the
clever widget to allow one to go back further. It shows in MetaTalk's categories.
posted by ontic
on Apr 27, 2005 -
4 comments
When I click on the username in this archived MeFi thread I am taken to an old post with the same number as the user, i.e. the url says 'mefi' instead of 'user'. Only true for the original post, not for comments.
posted by Pigpen
on Jan 28, 2005 -
4 comments
Why isn't Ask Metafilter archived more extensively? Why is it not searchable? Seems like a great source of info and trivia.
posted by Dukebloo
on Jun 11, 2004 -
13 comments
MetaTalk archives (e.g.,
May) have stopped indicating new comments. This makes it hard to find recent comments in threads that have fallen off the main page.
posted by timeistight
on May 13, 2003 -
7 comments
Would it be possible to offer for purchase the complete (and, if possible. updatable online) MetaFilter and MetaTalk archives? Would enough people buy it for it to be worthwhile for Matt, revenue-wise? How much would such a treasure cost? Could it be produced on demand, to minimize costs? I know I'd buy it.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Apr 2, 2003 -
46 comments
Are there archives for the sideblog? I am looking for a sideblog post that Matt put up a few months ago about a site that had a collection of old "morality" films shown in high school. Does anyone know where I might be able to find this post/link?
posted by jacknose
on Oct 22, 2002 -
6 comments
New feature: threads on MetaFilter more than a month old are now closed for new comments.
posted by mathowie
on Jul 29, 2002 -
28 comments
Maybe with the temporary increase of bug reports, deleting all but the last 5 metatalk threads on this page might be a little severe?
posted by crunchland
on Jul 17, 2002 -
12 comments
Elsewhere, Gluechunk said: One thing I've been doing lately is going back into the archives to read threads/posts from exactly a year ago.
Neat idea. How 'bout a link for it, Matt? Yeah, I could go into the archives, but I think it'd be neat to click somewhere on the front page and go to the MeFi front page from exactly a year ago. Of course, I don't quite know where you'd put the link. It sometimes seems too cluttered up there already. Maybe it would be good for an occasional "Classic MeFi Thread" anniversary. Anyway, just a thought.
posted by Lirp
on Feb 27, 2001 -
5 comments
When I check the Metafilter archives, I see every day of the month
except for the last day. In other words, no September 30, no July 31. Has anybody else noticed this?
posted by bwanabetty
on Oct 11, 2000 -
1 comment
On an unrelated note, is it possible to see MetaTalk archives?
posted by fil!
on Apr 28, 2000 -
1 comment
Bug: Go to Metatalk. Click Archives. Get 404. Curse wildly.
posted by endquote
on Apr 2, 2000 -
3 comments
