Hooray! Ask MetaFilter is finally on the Front Page Menu!

March 10, 2005 2:38 PM

Hooray! Ask MetaFilter is finally on the Front Page Menu! (And you thought we wouldn't notice, Matt... What? It's been there for how many weeks?)
posted by wendell to Feature Requests at 2:38 PM (32 comments total)

Hey, who won that Redesign contest anyway? Did anybody even enter?
posted by Stan Chin at 2:41 PM on March 10, 2005

It went up this morning in place of the MeTa heading. Matt then changed it so that MeTa and AskMeFi could be on the heading.
posted by dios at 2:45 PM on March 10, 2005

Whats this pancake business all about?

Also, I noticed it yesterday and I think it's only been on for at most a few days.
posted by puke & cry at 2:46 PM on March 10, 2005

Dang, do I HAVE to read EVERY stupid-ass MetaTalk thread to know what's going on?
posted by wendell at 2:48 PM on March 10, 2005

Yes.
posted by dg at 2:55 PM on March 10, 2005

I added it this morning, as a temp fix until a new design gets worked in.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:04 PM on March 10, 2005

Yes.
posted by me3dia at 3:04 PM on March 10, 2005

I added it this morning, as a temp fix until a new design gets worked in.
I say that to my customers all the time.
posted by seanyboy at 3:08 PM on March 10, 2005

You could just read all of Matt's new comments daily.

In fact, someone could automate that and turn it into a sort of second-hand .plan thing.

MattFilter.
posted by cortex at 3:10 PM on March 10, 2005

I kept clicking "Post a Link" out of habit thinking it was MeTa. Damn you Haughey!

Yeah, that's exactly what happened to me.
posted by tcp at 3:14 PM on March 10, 2005

Damn, I was also wondering why I kept trying to make a new post.
posted by DaShiv at 3:16 PM on March 10, 2005

I noticed the new arrangement this morning and thought how nice! Now in order to get to Ask Me, I will not have to go to MeTa and risk getting bogged down in the boyish badinage - and yet, here I am.
posted by Cranberry at 3:30 PM on March 10, 2005

DaShiv: Ha! I did the same thing about three times before I figured it out.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 3:35 PM on March 10, 2005

For a minute there I thought I was looking at MeTa when I was really looking at AskMe, and I thought, "Hey, those threads don't belong there......oh."
posted by orange swan at 3:35 PM on March 10, 2005

Obviously, instead of complaining to MetaTalk, we are to post a new link.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 3:44 PM on March 10, 2005

mathowie said in the thread I tried but failed to destroy: I wonder if I finally broke down and built the chatfilter I never wanted to build (but everyone seems to want), but made it part of a mefi pro (at say $3-$4/month)-- if anyone would use it, and if so, would it really keep other sections of the site much clearer of folks chewing fat in the breeze? I dunno.

I'd support that idea - premium-members-only access to an unmodded-Filter. You could even put deleted threads behind this "wall", AskMe, MeTa AND the MeFi threads that currently blemish the LoFi page. It could take some pressure off Matt, neaten up the "public" face of the site and give the MeFi hardcore a place where they won't be hosed out to the street. You could call it MetaFilter EXTREEEEME!!! and color the page Buzz Bunny Black.

Of course, this is not MY site, and Matt usually doesn't like my ideas (TellMeFi... TellMeFi... TellMeFi...)
posted by wendell at 3:49 PM on March 10, 2005

Yay! This feels, in a way, like a real launch!
posted by scarabic at 4:04 PM on March 10, 2005

This thread is totally unnecessary makes the baby jesus cry.

And, if I recall correctly, wendell, it was dhartung that came up with the TellMe name. For what it's worth.

[/grump]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:29 PM on March 10, 2005

If TellMeFi isn't used, it really is a weeping syzygy of blebs.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:30 PM on March 10, 2005

The redesign has been active for 3 days, now. In the end Matt changed his mind and opted for my redesign that is very very similar but subtly different to the original. Step one was to rotate the colours of the individual sections one place to the "right" (blue --> MeTa, grey --> AskMe, green --> MeFi). Step two was to rotate the titles of each section two places to the "left". Do you like it? Can't wait to get hold of my iPod.
posted by nthdegx at 4:53 PM on March 10, 2005

My bad, wonderchicken, you're right. TellMeFi wasn't my idea, and I do need to give Mad Props and Greg Proops to dhartung for it, but I think I was the one who lobbied the hardest for it (which certainly doomed it). For what it's worth, I do admit when I'm wrong... three times a year at most.
posted by wendell at 5:16 PM on March 10, 2005

how did I notice the change before I went to sleep last night if it only changed this morning? Too much brita vodka probably, that stuff sneaks up on you.
posted by puke & cry at 5:52 PM on March 10, 2005

Damn, I was also wondering why I kept trying to make a new post.

Yeah, that's the funniest thing about it - clicking that top-page link after reading the front page was so habitual that I didn't even realize I'd done it. I just thought "Why the hell did I want to Post a new Link?" The second and third times I wound up there, though, I at least grasped how it had happened.
posted by soyjoy at 6:12 PM on March 10, 2005

I wonder how many people are joining just for AskMe?

(and i've been clicking on the wrong thing too)
posted by amberglow at 6:55 PM on March 10, 2005

Not seeing it on LoFi yet.
posted by Succa at 7:15 PM on March 10, 2005

my blebs are weeping vast porfules of syzygy.
posted by quonsar at 8:16 PM on March 10, 2005

and i have the fish to prove it.
posted by quonsar at 8:22 PM on March 10, 2005

(i actually have blebs, q) : P
posted by amberglow at 8:44 PM on March 10, 2005

Muscle memory, or whatever you call it, is much-discussed in UI development. This is a nice demonstration of it.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 9:00 PM on March 10, 2005

TAGLINE ROLLCALL!
MetaFilter: Did anybody even enter?
MetaFilter: Whats this pancake business all about?
MetaFilter: I say that to my customers all the time.
MetaFilter: I was also wondering why I kept trying to make a new post.
MetaFilter: that stuff sneaks up on you.
MetaFilter: i have the fish to prove it.
MetaFilter: i actually have blebs
MetaFilter: Muscle memory, or whatever you call it
posted by wendell at 9:08 PM on March 10, 2005

Re: Muscle memory - what's really pathetic is when I click on "Post a Link" while thinking "Oh yeah, the MetaTalk link isn't there anymore, don't click that," but my fingers still go ahead and do it as though they don't have to listen to me.

Impertinent fingers...! One of these days I'll make you pay for this insubordination!
posted by soyjoy at 1:19 PM on March 11, 2005

Actually, it doesnt appear when using the 'plain text' theme.
posted by darsh at 6:32 AM on March 14, 2005