MetaTalk posts tagged with new

Web sites do it!

Drasher — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:54:38 -0800

Other sites have a little tick mark or a "new" tag for posts that you haven't seen. Can MetaFilter do this also? Yeah, I know that MeFi has the "xx new posts" thingie, sbut should/could it mark the new ones? (I have been reading MeFi and AskMe for some time. I have registered andposted a few times in AskMe. Heck, I've even had a MeFi post deleted by Jessamyn! But this is my MetaTalk first time.)

YOU ARE TEARING ME APART LISA!!

Bageena — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:24:37 -0800

Previously covered on the blue, The Room will be showing at Chandler Cinemas, May 15th at 11pm. If you haven't had a chance to see this fantastic trainwreck of a film, now would be a great opportunity. I'd like to host a meetup/pre-film party at my house starting around 6 ir 7 if any AZ Mefites would be interested. I've never been to a meetup, I've never hosted a meetup, so I really have no idea what I'm in for. However, I have a pretty good-sized house in Tempe on the corner of University and Mcclintock. I have a beautiful wife and 3 teacup yorkies and lots and lots of records to spin (James Brown, The Beatles, Ween, et cetera). We will be ordering pizza and providing beer and soda, although everyone is free to bring sides or other liquor, whateva. Along with whatever Mefites that might decide to come, there'll be members of my 'Bad Movie Night' club (inspired after reading this Askme) there as well, and we'll be showing all kinds of entertainment on the big screen until it's time to head out for the movie, which starts at 11pm. We can carpool for people who want to drink at the party before the movie. If anyone gets really tanked, I do have a guest bedroom and several couches. If this is in any way an incorrect way to do a meetup thread, I apologize. I hope everyone who lives within a three or four state area comes, and I really hope I suck you into my Bad Movie Club. =) We meet bi-weekly, wear stovetop hats, and smoke tobacco pipes. I'm serious. We watched Troll 2. You know you want this.

All the news that's fit to MeFi?

oneironaut — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:08:36 -0800

Why are links to New York Times and New Yorker articles MeFi worthy? It seems strange that a site devoted to discovering the best of the web links to articles from media juggernauts that are likely open in tabs in the same browser window anyway. Is MeFi a news aggregator? No. Want to see what's happening on the NYT? Do you really need MeFi to take you there?

riding instructions

moxiedoll — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:56:01 -0800

I don't want a new pony! I just want to know how to ride the one I have. I love that there's a "new" feature - but I'm doing it wrong. Sometimes the "new" leads to things I've read already, and if I just knew how to read (?) properly, this wouldn't happen. What's the trick to make the "new" true?

Exclusively viewing new questions.

taff — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:13:58 -0800

Whenever I visit the green front page I see that there are x number of new questions and y number of new comments. Is there somewhere I can click to see ONLY the new stuff that has arrived since I last visited? Profuse apologies if this is obvious or mentioned elsewhere or stupid.... but I don't read all of askmefi or the grey or the blue. I like to skim the intros looking for interesting things but seldom commit to read the entire thing so the colour change thing doesn't work for me. If it's a greasemonkey solution... I'm going to need extreme handholding. I have greasemonkey but have no clue what it does or how to use the scripts. It's all.. um, er... monkeylatin to me. Thanks in advance, and again, apologies if it's a ridiculous question (I promise I tried to search faq etc).

Per-thread new message count

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:50:08 -0800

It might be nice on the main page to see the number of new messages on a per-thread basis. I think it would be more logical if the number of "new" comments counted from the last time I read a given thread, rather than the last time I visited MeFi / MeTa / AskMe. (Specifically, I'm talking about the "x comments (y new)" string after each FPP.) This seems like the sort of thing that may have been requested and quashed many times. I pre-accept any shame I am due.

Pony request 7.0649.01: Thread markers

dawson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:25:13 -0800

Simple proposition, but perhaps not a simple implementation. Or perhaps loathsome to the majority. Some sort of marker (and even the ability to disable it) to show where you left a thread after returning several hours, or even days, later. When it starts rapidly closing in on, say, 200, it's not so easy to find where you last were. That's all. No biggie if no. But dern, it would be handy when bouncing from thread to thread, seems to me.

Whaddaya mean, "no new comments"?

languagehat — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:13:51 -0800

Yesterday when I visited MeFi for the first time, I got "no links and no comments posted since your last visit." I figured it was some momentary glitch. But the same thing happened today, so I'm wondering if anybody else has this problem. When I go to MetaTalk and AskMe, it has the correct number of new posts/comments. (Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP.)

Would it be possible to have "how many new" show up after you click a category to browse through?

canine epigram — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:17:27 -0800

I love the (x new) comments feature, but I notice that it doesn't work if you're browsing questions by category (say, "human relations"). Would it be possible to add that feature so one could still see how many new comments had been added to questions when vewed by category?

Fuzzy, precise, and popular.

oneirodynia — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:38:45 -0800

Not exactly a feature request, nor a bug- anyway: is it possible for different views of the "activity by so-and-so {favorited}" not to open up a new tab for each particular view?

An author at Damn Interesting signs up for a Mefi account having been linked on the blue

jonson — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:12:02 -0800

Neat! Metafilter links to an article on DamnInteresting.com, creator of DamnInteresting and author of the linked article signs up for Metafilter account.

(x new) logic should be tweaked

graymouser — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:00:36 -0800

The (x new) logic in the Blue and Green still seem just about useless within a given session as far as I can tell. I sort of remember talk about this changing several months back, but it doesn't seem to have changed. Any news on this front? (Yes, I know about MetaFilthy, but I'm not a fan.)

Request: first post and new commenter indicators

spiderwire — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:20:38 -0800

How about a subtle indicator of first posts and new commenters? I think I mentioned this before in the comments to a thread, but as long as we're all on the Pony Express and there's no contentious threads on the blue, this seems like the time to bring it up properly. [more inside]

How many people sign up per day?

c:\awesome — Tue, 23 May 2006 19:36:28 -0800

My friend and I were discussing MeFi and came to a point of contention when estimating the number of new users MeFi receives per day. My guess was 5 to 10, his was 25 or more. Perhaps this argument can be laid to rest here. How many new users does MeFi average per day?

"new" link disappears in grey but not blue or green

kechi — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:50:11 -0800

Why does the "new" link disappear once I've refreshed the page on the grey but not o the blue or green?

"New comments" should be a link from category pages

Eideteker — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:42:56 -0800

New comments on category pages. I'm not marking this a bug, because I don't want to be asinine about it. [más adentro]

Why does a new window open when I flag posts?

jack_mo — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:26:49 -0800

Why does flagging a post or comment have to involve the opening of so many new windows?

Notification of new comments in AskMe?

GleepGlop — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:32:42 -0800

Now that AskMe thread expiry dates have been extended (finally!), can we get a feature that tells us when new comments have been posted? Right now it just says 'go to the category view for this result' or something.
On a similar note, when I click on 'Work and Money', i only get results for the past month... what up with that?

is there any way to force a refresh of the (# new) posts on the main page?

umberto — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:28:43 -0800

OK, probably dumb question, but is there any way to force a refresh of the (# new) posts on the main page? I know it's time delimited somehow, but beyond that I'm clueless. And is there a place around here I can find that kind of information? Thanks in advance, oh, expert-types.

Oh, and on preview, the links for 'About', 'Etc.' and 'Customize' don't work on the MeTa preview page.

Pony: alternate payment methods

delmoi — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:06:29 -0800

Can we get another way to pay for accounts then paypal? I'd rather pay $20 for an account through another service then use them. There are several, relatively cheap credit card transaction services out there.

New Comments is/are broken.

fenriq — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:57:19 -0800

New Comments is/are broken.

When someone adds a comment to a post, it used to say how many of the comments were new. It doesn't do that anymore.

New Jersey Meetup

lilboo — Fri, 13 May 2005 08:33:09 -0800

I call New Jersey Meetup: Saturday, June 4th, 7:30 PM at the Hard Grove Cafe. Ask yourself: Does cuban food and lots of sangria sound good to you?

The effects of noobs on MetaFilter.

maulik — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:34:14 -0800

Not in defense of noobs. Because of noobs (myself included), the sky is falling and trends clearly show that metafilter is getting rapidly out of control!! Seriously though, this analysis shows that the "average age" of a metafilter poster has dropped by almost 200 days, I am in whichever camp wants to extend the incubation period for noobs like us...

"New" count not accurate

PrinceValium — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:42:15 -0800

AskMe tells me, "There have been no new questions and 146 comments posted since your last visit." But there have actually been four new questions since my last visit.

"new" replies in a post are always incorrect

Keyser Soze — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:44:26 -0800

Whenver I log in, the "new" replies in a post are always incorrect when you are at the main page. You know, (42 posts 2 new). Is this something common? If it is, can it be easily fixed?