Why isn't ask.metafilter.com linked to in the blue?

August 25, 2004 5:07 PM

Why isn't ask.metafilter.com linked to in the nav of the blue like it is in the grey ?
posted by zeoslap to Feature Requests at 5:07 PM (23 comments total)

I'm still working on ask mefi, and when it feels more complete, I'll need to redesign how other *.metafilter.com sites are linked on the front page of mefi. The nav doesn't scale well so instead I'll probably put some small images over on the right, sort of where the textads are for each site.

I'll be adding a new *.metafilter.com site soon after ask mefi improvements are made, and I can't just keep replacing text nav items or crowding more things up there.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:12 PM on August 25, 2004

I'll be adding a new *.metafilter.com site soon

Zowee! Please spill a bean or two, Master!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 5:17 PM on August 25, 2004

Well looking forward to the ask improvements (although I love it as is) and newbie mefi. ask is my favorite part of mefi these days, people are actually nice to one another :)
posted by zeoslap at 5:24 PM on August 25, 2004

I don't know if it's a good or bad thing to leak a detail or two. It's like a lazy saturday's worth of work to build, and when I get a lazy saturday one of these days, I'll make it. It's not something entirely new or revolutionary, just a new slot for a special type of content that everyone will likely enjoy. I won't say anything more though, it'll build it up too much and it's just this thing I've been meaning to build for the past three-four years.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:39 PM on August 25, 2004

Pornfilter!?
posted by reklaw at 5:45 PM on August 25, 2004

newsfilter

*crosses fingers*
posted by bob sarabia at 6:39 PM on August 25, 2004

Come on Matt!! You can't do this to us!
posted by Quartermass at 7:10 PM on August 25, 2004

dating.metafilter.com!
posted by caitlinb at 7:11 PM on August 25, 2004

It's a new reality um site.

meetupwithcaitlinb.metafilter.com

Where contestants vie for the honour of meeting her at a meetup in the city/town/village they dwell in.
posted by riffola at 7:33 PM on August 25, 2004

i'm hoping for quonsarfilter. that'd be entertaining.

for the first few minutes anyway. then it'd get too weird to follow.

looking forward to seeing the new addition, matt...
posted by caution live frogs at 7:33 PM on August 25, 2004

bannedfrom.metafilter.com
posted by angry modem at 7:38 PM on August 25, 2004

redhotanalsluts.metafilter.com?
posted by keswick at 8:14 PM on August 25, 2004

I'm hoping, judging from Matt's proclivities, that it could be a place where members could discuss the very latest releases (in music, film or television). I remember him saying a simple "Spiderman" post - legitimately disputed - was understandable as it had just premiered and was obviously something people here wanted to discuss.

As long as the original posts were bang up-to-date (preferably "exclusive", with spoiler alerts, before any mainstream reviews had been published), I think it would be a great addition.

Getafilter?
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:33 PM on August 25, 2004

gmail.metafilter.com?
posted by Jimbob at 11:04 PM on August 25, 2004

C'mon politics.metafilter.com! Daddy needs a new bile repository!
posted by moift at 1:54 AM on August 26, 2004

I understand it's the long-awaited English-language version of Miguel's blog
posted by matteo at 2:12 AM on August 26, 2004

BlighFilter! All Ethereal, all the time!

Sorry, couldn't resist. I love the Bligh, I do.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:19 AM on August 26, 2004

But not that much, though..
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:21 AM on August 26, 2004

injokes.metafilter.com
posted by Songdog at 6:27 AM on August 26, 2004

Uneducated Guess: It's either what Miguel said, or it's a classified ads kind of thing - a place for members to swap stuff, announce things, solicit massages, and pimp ourselves.
posted by iconomy at 7:17 AM on August 26, 2004

I'll just know it's flaming-halberd-of-death.metafilter.com,
the massively multiplayer roleplaying game where we all get to fight, in 3-D,
because that would just be a quick saturday afternoon project, right?
or space-traders-and-pirates.metafilter.com...
or maybe checkers.metafilter.com.
posted by milovoo at 8:14 AM on August 26, 2004

How's about prayerchain.metafilter.com? I mean, how many times do we have to ask for a prayer chain around here?
posted by iconomy at 8:33 AM on August 26, 2004

posted by wendell at 3:33 PM on August 26, 2004