MetaTalk posts tagged with pony

Pony: Easier way to access mobile site

Nameless — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:44:31 -0800

Pony: An easier way to revert to the mobile site. Current link is 1. tiny and 2. all the way at the bottom. Also, it would be nice if I could search and post from the mobile site, in that order of importance. Thanks for the mobile site! It rocks, and is one of the best mobile versions of a site I've seen to date.

I was preparing a post like this!

shii — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:18:53 -0800

Is there any interest in creating a space on the wiki to collaborate on future posts and prevent sniping? Right now, I'm collecting links for a future post. But it's on a current event, so I'm also worried the topic will be sniped by someone else as I'm writing it. If I were to make a wiki page and plop it down there, would people bother looking for it before making their own post? For maximum visibility, we'd have to arrange collaborations by subject, and advertise the wiki page somewhere on the "new post" page, which I realize would further crowd the page.

YouTube embed now has fullscreen button!

disillusioned — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:34:16 -0800

MeFi YouTube Embed: Now with fullscreen! After MeMailing Metafilter's Own pb, he tweaked the params and gave me a beautiful Christmas Pony: the fullscreen button now lives on the embed. (And in under 10 minutes, to boot!) I realize you can click the video and have it load in the same place in YouTube but I can't be the only one annoyed by the new page load, the move away from the thread, and having to click fullscreen there as well. Thanks, pb! (There's a chance the HQ button came about as part of this too, but I'm not sure.)

My Little NSFW Pony

darksasami — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:42:47 -0800

Would it be possible for posts that have the NSFW tag to be marked as such automatically on the front page? It looks like I was not the only one to click the link on this post without looking at the tags first. It's true that the majority of the time, people are good about marking such links, and it's also true that the post was tagged. We were not unwarned. But the design of the site makes it easy not to check the tags, and the fact that people are usually good about it makes people complacent. So, on the principle of designing around how people behave rather than how they ought to behave, how about if the text of a post with the NSFW tag was prepended with [NSFW] on the front page? It's probably not a great number of people that are affected, but it is a high risk if someone does click the wrong thing at the wrong time. An appropriately-placed [NSFW] mark could save someone a job.

Indexing tags for search

flatluigi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:04:43 -0800

Small pony: MeFi search doesn't index tags. I was making my FPP a few minutes ago and wanted to link people to where StSanders was mentioned elsewhere on MeFi. I was surprised to get different results depending on what I searched for: Posts tagged with 'stsanders.' A search for posts mentioning 'stsanders.' Note that this thread, though tagged with StSanders, doesn't come up in the search for posts mentioning him.

Unique Tags

Rinku — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:53:14 -0800

Is there any way to view tags that have only been used once? It's a minor question driven only by curiosity, but I've been wondering for a while now about what tags might have only been used once in the history of Metafilter. I tried taking a look at the infodump, but I couldn't really find a way. I also didn't have much luck in the tags section of the site, which is pretty basic. Is there a way to look at such a list, for any of the sections of the site?

Wanted: a quicker way to stalk, I mean memail people

desjardins — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:13:32 -0800

Can we skip a step when memailing someone? I'd like to be able to type in the username in the TO field, rather than 1) searching for their username 2) clicking on their profile link 3) clicking on the "send mail" link.

Links for the Memories

box — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:12:54 -0800

The welcome-back message on the front page reads 'x links and y comments posted since your last visit' (except, y'know, with numbers). But most posts contain more than one link. Would it be better to have it read 'x posts and y comments'? There's probably a downside I'm not seeing.

AskMe to Recent Ac

Netzapper — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:00:44 -0800

Could one's AskMe questions perhaps show up in Recent Activity? As it stands, to keep track of your own AskMe thread, you have to manually check it through your general activity. Since questions seem to remain open for a very long time, it's possible that people can provide an answer long after the question has faded into the vaulted halls of memory. Would it not be better if asking an AskMe question acted as if you'd posted in your own thread, thereby adding it to your recent activity and bumping it to the top whenever somebody replies? Yea, would this not be a very shiny and well-behaved pony?

pony pony pony pony pony pony pony MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!

beerbajay — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:22:55 -0800

Music pony requests: Add date posted for each track in Most (Favorited|Playlisted) Tracks of All Time and increase the length of these lists. The 'Most' lists are great, but I've already listened to most of those tracks (they're mostly older). Few tracks are going to get favorited more than the current lowest-number-of-favorites track, which has 50 favorites. SO THE PONIES: (1) more tracks so newer things can show up on that list (2) dates so it's easier to find the new stuff.

My Little Pony: Improvement to Recent Activity page

cj_ — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:05:52 -0800

My Little Pony: On the Recent Activity page, next to the link "(remove from activity)" could we also have an "(end)" link that will scroll to the last item using relative anchor tags? I find myself mashing spacebar a lot to get to the end of each, especially when the threads have 10+ items after my most recent comment but activity has died down. Also, sometimes I'm interested in a particular thread, and if it's near the bottom this would make navigating there faster. I think this would improve usability of the page without much impact and doesn't seem (operative keyword, obviously) like a lot of work. I normally rely on Plutor's GreaseMonkey script to jump to the end of threads, but it doesn't work here. Thoughts? I can whip up my own GM script to do this otherwise, but thought I'd throw the idea out there first. (Sorry if this was asked before, didn't find anything searching)

Mark as Read

l33tpolicywonk — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:41:23 -0800

Yet-Another-Mefi-Mail-Pony: "Mark as Read" button in e-mail notification. So, I get my MeFi Mail sent to my e-mail address. Even when I read it there, though, I have to click onto the MeFi Mail box and read it again in order to mark it as read. Is there any way to have a "mark as read" button in the e-mail notification, or automatically mark as read all MeFi Mail sent by e-mail or something like that? Apologies for the 27 millionth MeFi Mail pony request. I just have a pathological need to get rid of the number next to my mail icon.

Some pony requests for Mobile

ChrisR — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:56:57 -0800

(Mobile) pony requests: 1. It'd be nice if commenting was enabled from the mobile site. 2. How about a "load more" link on the section pages so that we can get to older posts more easily. 3. This is a bit more pie in the sky, but it would be great if internal links were rewritten to point to the mobile equivalent. I know the mobile site is a bit of a ghetto in terms of attention, but it really is a fantastic way to get my fix.

Search results including number of comments?

oulipian — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:32:46 -0800

A minor pony: on the search results page, can the number of comments for each post be included in the "posted by" line, the same way it is on the main page? When searching MeFi, I am usually most interested in finding threads with lots of comments. This is particularly true when searching AskMe, where having a large number of comments is usually a pretty good indication that a thread contains lots of quality suggestions, or has at least provoked an interesting discussion.

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.

Contact Filters

ocherdraco — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:43:40 -0800

My little pony: On the contacts page, can we have links to filter contacts based on the XFN links we've applied to them? For example, I would find it very useful to be able to toggle my contacts to see only those whom I've met, or those whom I've espousenated. Likewise, it would be useful to filter people who've made me a contact to see who has applied what labels to me more easily.

YouTube Fullscreen?

disillusioned — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:22:26 -0800

PonyFilter: Can the inline YouTube embed please support fullscreen? My understanding is that the simple <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> will get what I'm asking for—the fullscreen button appearing on the YouTube embed. (And, come to think of it, this is something that could likely be easily enough GreaseMonkeyed, but still.) Apologies if this has been discussed before. A cursory glance at the Google and MeTa posts tagged "youtube" returned nothing of merit.

Message inbox export?

loquacious — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:09:12 -0800

Request for feature - message export functionality. May we have a message export button? Looking at the functionality I realize messages may not be threaded or contain much metadata, so I realize it might need to be just "inbox file" and "outbox file" or something simple. But even that would be handy. Plaintext, flatfile, CSV, whatever.

MeFi Auctions

The Devil Tesla — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:14:50 -0800

A dude set up a tiny auction site designed to sell to a small, trusted community. I think something similar would work well for MeFi. (via DF) I searched old MetaTalks and I didn't see anything discussing an idea for MeFi Auctions before so I'm proposing it myself. The creator talks a little more about it on his blog if you are interested. I just think that an auctions site as well maintained and added to as the rest of MeFi would be great. I know that this might be a bit of a slog to set up, and to moderate once it's up, so I'm not expecting it anytime soon. Still, I would use it.

Posting pony petition

nevercalm — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:44:23 -0800

So I posted a double of the awesome wedding dance, and now I have a pony request that might be useful. I know, I know, it's still on the front page, which I discovered after the fact...I haven't been on the site much lately and was in a bit of a rush. My searches didn't result in any hits, nor did the preview feature find my link. Herein lies the problem. I was referred to the youtube video from another site, and that site added some referrer info to the url which I didn't notice until after everyone cried "double." I am far less than web-savvy, but would it be possible to add something to the mefi search that could lop off the "&eurl" code, and check that url against what's been posted? Everything before the code is identical to the original post's link, and presumably would've resulted in the posting page telling me that I'm blind and doubleposting.

More Free Form and More Go Nuts, Please

sleslie — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:09:09 -0800

Please UTF-8 the user profile fields... So I can put 男 in the gender field, because I fucking love China. UPDATE: It's done already! What the heck, pb, do you have some javascript in the new post fields that sends you live feeds of what's being typed?

diet.metafilter.com

crapmatic — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:03:08 -0800

Pony request: diet.metafilter.com. I do recognize that the stable is pretty crowded already, but I see there's 371 tagged items on ask.mefi for diet questions. Seeing how Something Awful has a pretty busy weight loss forum going and diet is a multi-billion dollar industry, maybe MeFi can figure out some way to bring its great minds together to encourage one another toward weight loss goals and healthy lifestyles. Some basic weight graphs and weight tracking capability could be part of this. I realize this is getting into MeFi mission creep, so consider it just another idea for whenever the right time comes.

Pon...

disillusioned — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:47:57 -0800

MinorPony: Can't we limit the above-the-fold field length so that this doesn't require mod intervention? I know that you have to use a little JS, and validate on the backend, but this is a quick fix--a character count of 1,500 allows posts like this still, but capping it somewhere under 2,000 would make sense, no? I know it's a slippery slope, what with replacing mods with machines, but I think an exception makes sense here...

Sometimes we need to know 'neigh'...

twine42 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:31:20 -0800

PonyRequest : When we have an AnonAsk refused, could we have a reason sent to the asker as a matter of course, so that the asker could (a) know that it's been refused and can use their weekly on something else and (b) have some idea of what they did wrong and consider if/how they should rewrite it? I know that someone (Jess?) implied that there is no obvious link on the admin screen between questions and askers, so I thought that if it's done automatically as part of the rejection process without the admin ever needing to know who the user was. For a lot of stuff, I'd guess a detailed rejection reason isn't needed, so something like our flagging could work for stuff like "no illegal questions", "don't use anon to ask what to call your new puppy" or "use google godamnit!"..