MetaTalk posts tagged with ponies

Projects Pony: Email Notification for FPPs

ocherdraco — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:27:44 -0800

Projects pony: email notification when project is posted to the blue. The notification on the projects page itself is cool, but if you're only checking the page through Recent Activity (as I did, with my most recent project) there's no indication that it's been posted to the main page of Metafilter. Could an automatic email containing the text of the notification that appears on the page be sent to the poster? I still don't know how I missed it. I mean, I read the whole site obsessively.

i need feedback/help and don't know if mefi is appropriate.

Muffpub — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:38:28 -0800

I'm trying to get feedback/helpers on a collaborative Google Map of bike paths in the Boston area. It's pretty small and unambitious, hardly something I've spent "a few months" on. Is this appropriate for MeFi Projects? Hi, So I'm slowly - very slowly - trying to build a bike path map of the Boston area with some details and comments about specific roads since Boston's transportation systems are so crazy and unpredictable that simple color-coding usually doesn't do the city justice. I'd love to get some feedback as to whether this project is even a good idea, and if others think it is, to hopefully attract people who'd like to collaborate. This is hardly a "significant work" or "the type of things that typically take a few months to design, create, and build" as the projects FAQ lays out. I've only spent a few hours on it, but theoretically with enough people it could be a significant creation. At the same time, I don't want to be self-linking to ask if this is even a good idea in Ask MeFi. So what do I do? Ask for feedback in Ask MeFi without self-linking? Post in Projects anyway? Slink off?

Beating dead ponies

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:13:18 -0800

There are x MetaFilter links to this post... ...where x is a number and an HREF to a page listing the posts that link to this post. In my mind, this would include links within the comments section, too, but if that's too much of an issue, links in the actual post would still be an improvement. Not sure how doable this is within this architecture, but it might be kind of a fun feature. Frequently, I'll see old stuff popping up here or there and wonder, "Now why is this suddenly getting attention again? Did somebody link to it?" With this feature we could follow the breadcrumbs and keep stale converations going almost indefinitely!

Please bring my pony back to life!

grouse — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:08:14 -0800

Fields in user profiles used to have a different color background if they contained information only visible to logged in community members. Can we have this back please? It was a good reminder of what information shouldn't necessarily be posted on public pages, and made it easier not to out people accidentally.

Playlist pony

klangklangston — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:28:16 -0800

Last.fm pony please: I'd like to embed the "Recently Listened" (or similar) chart into my profile, much like the flickr photo scroll. (Alternately, if someone knows how to do that now, I'd appreciate it). Today it's mostly Cobra Killer, I think.

Follow-up post

stbalbach — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:41:28 -0800

Feature request: Allow a follow-up post on closed threads by the original FPP poster. I often come across relevant and important information about subjects I made a FPP about months ago, but the thread is closed and it's not worth making a new FPP about it. It would be nice if the person who made the original FPP had the ability to make a single follow-up post after the FPP has closed. The example I had in mind was this thread about Citizenre solar-power, and this new story Citizenre: A House of Cards, an important development that should be in the archived thread.

New feature idea: final follow-up/resolution feature.

apple scruff — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:14:05 -0800

New feature idea: final follow-up/resolution feature [more inside]

Users Near Me

Captain_Tenille — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:35:55 -0800

Small ponies, roaming free...

On my user page, it says there are 5 users near me, since it only 5 users live within 50 miles of my fair city. Sixty miles away, though, there's an absolute assload in Seattle. Would it be possible to increase the 50 mile limit if there number of users near someone is less than some magic number, so the poor guy living in Valdez, AK has users living within 1,000 miles, but those of us just outside of a more major metropolitan area don't feel quite so left out? This may be the world's smallest pony, but the 10 mile difference between almost no one near me and having a bunch of people near me has nagged at me a little bit.

How do I review my past comments?

salmacis — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:45:16 -0800

How do I review my past comments? It was easy enough with the old layout. Now, when I click the 'My comments' link I can find out which threads I commented in, but I can't find any link to the comment itself. What am I missing?

Can we subscribe to Ask.Meta threads?

filmgeek — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:08:53 -0800

More ponies.
Can we subscribe to Ask.Meta threads? Please?

display how many comments since you last opened the thread?

drezdn — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:36:22 -0800

This might be far too much work, but would it be possible to have a thread display how many comments there have been since you last opened the thread instead of comments since you last reloaded the page?

Can we close signups now?

jpoulos — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:01:13 -0800

Can we close the door now? I'm genuinely happy to have some new blood, but here's the problem. Pretty much everyone who's been reading the site with their noses against the glass has been let in. Hereafter, we're going to get a bunch of folks who happen to be wandering by, and know nothing of how things are done around here. (I don't know if that's the case with notmtwain, I'm only using his/her post as an example because it glares so.) We can always open it up again later, but can we have a moratorium on new users? Just for now? Please?

RSS feeds per user?

nthdegx — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:08:49 -0800

RSS feeds per user?

will there ever be an anonymous way to ask questions?

bonaldi — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:24:40 -0800

Stet's question reminds me: will there ever be an anonymous way to ask questions? I'm sure there are lots of people out there with things to ask that they don't want brought up when they're running for office...

The AskMe archive pages never seem to show a new comment count for any thread

billsaysthis — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:39:31 -0800

The AskMe archive pages never seem to show a new comment count for any thread. Is this a planned feature, something that will be changed when the new software rev is posted, or my imagination?

Can we have [more inside]?

betaray — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:56:58 -0800

Is it possible to make [more inside] a feature?

[more inside]

How about a bit more detail on users than 'nnnn members' ?

southisup — Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:05:40 -0800

How about a bit more detail on users than 'nnnn members' ?
ie. user activity: the number/percentage of the members that viewed the site, posted a comment, posted a link in the last month.
Estimated number of non members viewing the site would be good context too. [I was reading MetaFilter daily for over a year before joining]

Request number 2 for a MetaTalk search comes from me.

And couldn't the thread category, when posting to MetaTalk, default to the topic you came from? [Most people would view the topic before starting a thread here]

Should we have a separate page for politics?

rcade — Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:12:14 -0800

Would MetaFilter be improved by moving political discussions to their own community separate from the main page? I love politics, but I think these kinds of links breed like rabbits, and I sometimes wonder if I am contributing to the Free Republicazation of this site.