MetaTalk posts tagged with projects

Vote history username bug

Paragon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:33:56 -0800

A bug in Projects: clicking on the usernames in someone's vote history leads to a 404 every time.

I'm unable to comment in Projects

tellurian — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:37:50 -0800

I can't post a comment to Projects. OSX 10.5.7 Safari 4.0.1 and Firefox 2.0.0.14. The comment previews okay but after hitting post it returns an empty text input box and no comment is posted.

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.

Do my subreddits qualify for MeFi Projects?

reenum — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:35:59 -0800

MeFi Projects Question: Can I post links to some subsites I've created on reddit? I've created a couple of subreddits, and wanted to see if it would be kosher to post links to them in MeFi Projects. Thanks!

Once, twice, three times a critter.

chasing — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:46:38 -0800

Hi, Metafilter. I posted a project in Projects. It has somehow shown up on the Projects page three times -- one, two, three. Not sure if I did this or if some other error occurred.

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?

Groundhog Projects

Sova — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:23:26 -0800

Why does Projects sometimes display the same day twice? Currently, when I check Projects I can see two April 15, two April 19, two April 27, and two May 7. Is this a problem with the time settings, that is, am I getting mixed-up dates because for me two projects were posted on different days, but for the servers they were posted on the same day? This doesn't happen on the Metafilter front page though, and always the day after these double-ups is missing. Does anybody else see this, and if so/not what are your time settings? I'm +8 hours.

I have no mouth and I must tell Metafilter about my cousin's awesome website

Acheman — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:38:50 -0800

Does Projects work for everything that would be a self-link on MeFi? Or is there a hinterland of things created by friends, relatives and other loved ones that are too self-linky for FPPing, but aren't yours and so can't go in Projects? Are things which fall into this hinterland doomed to fall softly onto the forest floor of the internet, unheard and unseen? It seems that the definition of self-link is broader in blueland than in the World Of Teal. The former seems to model self-construction with an almost Hegelian inclusivity, so that our selfhood expands to include all those in whom we have a stake, and who have a stake in us; the faq for the latter, by contrast, is worded in such a way as to imply the existence of stark, rigid ego-boundaries, an uncrossable gulf between Self and Other. As always, it is the perpetually liminal world of affection and attachment which draws these conflicting models of selfhood into explicit tension. Where can I post this cool thing my cousin made?

Sing out, Louise! in Projects

ocherdraco — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:03:07 -0800

Is it okay to post event-like things to Projects? I volunteer for an awesome theater group here in New York that puts on shows for charity. It's basically where all my free time goes (well, that and MeFi, obvs). I'd like to let mefites know about the show that I've just spent the past four months of my life pouring my soul into (since I happen to live in a place with lots of mefites who could come see it), but it seems like projects is more about websites and apps. Is this kind of thing okay for projects, and if not, is there anywhere on the site other than my profile where it's okay for me to notify folks about things like this?

You got your MeTa in my Projects!

middleclasstool — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:21:25 -0800

Weird. Metatalk threads can be loaded with podcast URLS. Found this via Google, actually, while surfing for a question about navigating MeFi in Opera Mini.

Requesting a recount

swift — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:56:57 -0800

The vote counts seem to be off on the Mefi Projects Archive page.

mefi projects [ab]use

nihlton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:52:30 -0800

I posted a personal project to mefi projects about a year ago. Ive made a few (fairly significant) improvements since. Appropriate to post it again, or abuse? Linking to it here seems possibly shady, so ill say that when it was posted, I was using a different username, and that the project was a real time html/css/javascript editor. "significant improvements" mean syntax highlighting for the code panes and targeted editing (edit the innerHTML of a particular element/container rather than the entire page). enough of a change to warrant a repost? also worth noting - I posted to projects when it was still a prototype (interesting concept with little use) in 2005, and again when it was more polished (usable). It was featured on the front page two months after its second appearance in projects. this is just a non-commercial personal project that I tinker with from time to time.

Can I use Projects to help with a non-web, ultimately personal, project?

laumry — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:25:32 -0800

Can I use Projects to help with a non-web, ultimately personal, project? Hello there. First ever post on MetaTalk. I'm a long time lurker on MetaFilter, but really only ever frequent the blue and the green. I don't know very much about the Projects forum. I have a project that I'd like help with, but I don't know if it's appropriate for Projects. A friend of mine is turning 30 soon, and I'd like to interview people (of all ages, not just >30) about how it felt to turn 30 etc. I'd record, transcribe and edit the interviews into a chapbook and make that into a birthday present. Is this the sort of thing I could advertise on Projects? The reasons I hesitate are that: 1) This wouldn't be a web-based project - and while the front page says "MeFi Projects is dedicated to helping MetaFilter members announce their new web projects to the world", the "About" page includes mention of "offline projects". 2) The primary result wouldn't be something that everyone could see - it'd be a birthday present. But I'd be happy to put up the final text online once I'd finished, or during editing, as appropriate. Can anyone advise me on this? (And my apologies if I've missed some incredibly basic piece of data that would have answered this. Have already slapped my forehead just in case this turns out to be the case!)

Censoring irony

internationalfeel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:59:30 -0800

My post, Project Censored as censors? was, ironically, deleted for reasons which have nothing to do with the posting guidelines. I complained and was asked to raise it here. It was apparently too "editorialish". I don't know how you measure that, but I could point to any number of undeleted posts that are arguably just as editorialish. If I'm allowed to post it again, here it is. I think it's concise and to the point (and it doesn't break any guidelines)

The Case of the Missing Favorite

Citizen Premier — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:25:08 -0800

Displaying post 1 to 1 of 2 from projects. How do I see my other favorite? Uh, that's about all there is to the bug--only one of my favorites from Projects shows up, but I have two.

Can I post something I tested to Projects?

grouse — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:44:35 -0800

A friend developed a new Firefox extension. While I didn't write any code for it, I was one of the testers during development and like to think that my input has helped the product. Is this okay to post to Projects?

Metafilter Projects (Re)post Ettiquete...

Bokononist — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:36:02 -0800

Metafilter Projects (Re)post Ettiquete... I posted my web game to Projects a little over a year ago, and have since then renamed it (which I doubt matters much) and added to / expanded it a whole bunch. This represents a whole lot of time on my part. I'm considering posting it again, and my inclination is 99% "don't be ridiculous of course it's OK." However my lifelong trait of timidity has prompted me to first post this thread to seek opinions about whether such a move would be acceptable, frowned on, laughed at, or whatever. Thoughts?

MeFi Projects getting public comments

mathowie — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:05:40 -0800

A big tweak to Projects: new comments going public The original (and still to this day) plan for the Projects section was to let members here show off their amazing works. There's a great deal of creative people here and it was tough to figure out a good way to share new projects with other members, so we built Projects along the lines of the previous mailing list setup by kindall. Originally, I saw Projects as being a great launching board for new MetaFilter posts. I envisioned maybe half the posts to Projects ending on MetaFilter, and with that in mind, I didn't want to discourage people from "promoting" posts up to MetaFilter proper by having lengthy discussions already on Projects. I thought it'd act as a nice incentive to not have comments at all, to save those comments for when the best stuff ends up at MeFi. After a few years of doing Projects, I've realized almost all the projects posted are quite new, and mostly not yet ready for MeFi (half the time I think "this would make a great post in six months when there is more content here") but they're still cool works. After Projects launched with no comments at all, we eventually added private comments to the creator, and though that was weird, I felt it enabled people to share their feedback, bugs, etc with the creator. People have long asked why the comments were private, and I stuck to the original notion that I didn't want to have two discussions about the same thing in two places on mefi -- that it'd be better to leave the incentive to push stuff to MeFi and discuss it there. I'll concede that the original plans for how I thought Projects would grow and be used here are different than what happens on the site day to day. Most projects are new, and only 1 or 2 get promoted up to MeFi each month. With that in mind, we're going to flip the switch today on new comments, making every new comment public, while keeping the old system in place as-is. All previous comments on the Projects site are still private and open to the creators to read, but you can no longer leave a private comment for a Projects post. Every Projects thread will get a standard comment thread like the ones everywhere else on the site, with full functionality like favorites, flagging, preview, and HTML shortcuts. This will go live later today, and we've kept the new projects posting page closed for a week while we retooled the system and allowed the last few projects to get their share of private feedback before flipping the switch on new public feedback. This is a long time coming and I admit the no comments then private comments thing was a weird design choice, especially considering the way comments are handled everywhere else on the site, so the new way of doing things should work out much better since it'll be in line with what members expect. I suppose this will create the two-discussions problem I tried to avoid in the first place, but I suspect it only affects a small handful of posts and people on MeFi could link to the existing discussion to say "hey, don't forget the 10 comments over there about this as well" (or we could automate that when you make a mefi post about a projects post in the future)

With a hurf anf a durf and a plate full of beans

dersins — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:07:28 -0800

Hurf durf beanplating overlord.

BIG VOTES vs small votes

Memo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:54:08 -0800

Somewhat unimportant but, why do projects under 10 posts look like this while using Opera?

pathetic insensitive

survivorman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:45:58 -0800

This project is offensive beyond the pale for those who worship the Son of God, and who are grateful He gave His life and defeated death. While people are evidently allowed to broadcast their insensitive and tasteless hate and "humour" like this regarding someone elses faith, I should be allowed to express my view also. And I am. And you've heard it.

Voted. Unvoted. Voted. Unvoted.

Memo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:36:33 -0800

Not terribly important but: is there any way to reverse a vote in the projects page? I voted by accident in the Wish2List project when I commented on it (I clicked something that looked like a link, didn't work, looked closer and it was the voting link). It was entirely my fault, and I really should have been paying more attention but the damage is already done. Yes, its merely a vote and it's not going to kill me but it would be nice to know if there's a way to reverse that and any vote in general. Thanks.

American Classic Metafilter

nanojath — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:35:37 -0800

Didja know Metafilter's own hermitosis has been writing articles for AMC's website (mostly in the MonsterFest blog)? Hey check it out, it's ColdChef! (With awesome photo) Some other recent gems (though not so Metafilter related) - hermitosis asks Bruce LaBruce "Exactly how gay IS this zombie movie?" Answer: "It's pretty gay." Plus, a tender examination of Selma Hayek's facial hair.

"Silent" comments on Projects

snsranch — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:39:57 -0800

The lack of comments makes Projects really boring. posted by delmoi (from earlier) There must be a good reason for "silent" comments for Projects, but what is it? If I posted a short film or something it would be very useful to have the same kind of commentary that exists on the other pages.

'Tis the season for secrets

kepano — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:42:57 -0800

I am looking for a fellow MeFite who is both a Daft Punk fan and proficient with (preferably) Fruity Loops and/or Reason. I'm working on a top secret project that I'd like to collaborate with someone on. Who will bite?