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We tweaked the colors a little on the MetaFilter home page to address some uncertainties people had mentioned. At any time you can click here to opt out of the test. [more inside]
posted by pb to Feature Requests at 10:18 PM PST - 236 comments

I always visit AskMeFi via My Ask. I have three categories turned off that don't interest me: Human Relations, Pets & Animals, and Work & Money. However, several of the 14 questions listed as "recommended" for me in the right-hand sidebar at the present moment fall into categories I don't want to see (three are in HR, one in W&M). I realize this list is, of course, machine-generated, but it would seem to make sense that if I've excluded a category in My Ask, a question in one of those categories should not get recommended for me. Mods, how exactly is the recommended list created, and any thoughts on tweaking how it works?
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell to MetaFilter-Related at 8:55 AM PST - 7 comments

We almost got our own beer. Wonder who owns the name?
posted by Mr. Yuck to MetaFilter-Related at 1:56 AM PST - 46 comments

Today I was pleased to notice that Metafilter's Own℠ Avery Edison is the new intern over at Today in Tabs, which is now back from a month's hiatus. That's all. If you don't subscribe you could probably do it now. Or, if that's too much of a commitment, it's also syndicated at FastCompany.
posted by pullayup to MetaFilter-Related at 1:21 PM PST - 31 comments

... That we don't already know from chatting with you on the site. In fact, aim for the weirdest thing you do but don't talk about, or your stupidest human trick. Go!
posted by Eyebrows McGee to MetaFilter-Related at 10:03 PM PST - 1010 comments

If one is a habitué of AskMe who devotes himself more to satisfying his own curiosity than resolving the problems facing his fellows, one is apt to find, among the ranks of those who are more helpful, that some among us dispose over a sufficiently wide-ranging expertise, or all-encompassing benevolence, that their names recur with a frequency so apparently noticeable that one's thoughts are naturally led to the question of whether the said frequency is merely apparent or is in fact real, a question to be settled not by the comparison of anecdotes and impressions, prey as all such are to the biases afflicting all finite creatures, but by the totting up and comparison of figures, which, though they be in one manner of speaking finite, admit of another view on which Plato's placement of them in the heavens, rather than under the changeable moon with ourselves, quite appropriate—and which makes it fortunate that cortex placed several useful figures in the clouds if not the heavens, so that the curious can indeed determine who the answeringest mefites are, considering the "answeringness" of a mefite to be the ratio of the number of distinct questions posted to "the green" to which the mefite has submitted at least one answer, to the total number of distinct questions posted to "the green" following the first question the said mefite answered, that question marking the mefite's first becoming active on AskMe, and excluding, as apt to be uninformative, those participants of AskMe whose first answer was posted within the last six months. [more inside]
posted by kenko to MetaFilter-Related at 9:44 PM PST - 197 comments

We made a few changes to the modern theme today. At mobile widths, the Skip button is now no longer the Skip button—it's an arrow pointing down. At tablet/iPad widths there's a new similar down arrow button in the fixed header that appears as you scroll. And behind the scenes we enabled Grunticon as a fallback for older phones that don't have SVG support. [more inside]
posted by pb to Feature Requests at 9:38 AM PST - 27 comments

The last #WomensMarch MetaTalk thread has closed; I would like one open to discuss what's happening, and if anyone needs to throw out a question.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome to MetaFilter-Related at 4:46 PM PST - 71 comments

Has anyone ever collected all of the comments on metafilter that start with "Metafilter: "... ? [more inside]
posted by el io to Feature Requests at 12:50 PM PST - 68 comments

We made a couple changes to FanFare today. We added a show, movie, and podcast search to the front page sidebar. For movies we added links to buy or watch a particular movie at Amazon (if it's available). And we updated how movies are posted. [more inside]
posted by pb to Feature Requests at 3:30 PM PST - 22 comments

A few years ago, someone had posted a video on the blue of a woman's progress as she learned to dance, starting with clumsy steps and eventually showing an impressive routine (in front of a subway car, if memory serves). I've searched for this under every search item I could think of, but nothing turned up. Please hope me…?
posted by pxe2000 to MetaFilter-Related at 7:50 AM PST - 4 comments

Please help me find a fantastic thread full of mefites' best jokes! That is unfortunately all I have to go on. I don't particularly remember the timeframe, and I assume the question was something like "Tell me your best joke," but my search is not turning up anything useful. [more inside]
posted by couch fort dinner party to MetaFilter-Related at 6:52 AM PST - 15 comments

A while ago on the Blue (I think) I saw an article about an experiment done where the people giving the survey would either make some comment that indicated they were homosexual or not, and the results of the survey changed based on that. I can't find this article now, when I have a speech on LGBT rights. [more inside]
posted by motioncityshakespeare to MetaFilter-Related at 4:24 PM PST - 8 comments

Right now, it looks like you can make unlimited posts of jobs in the "jobs" section, but you can only post one notice of availability that has to stay forever and can't be changed or added to or bumped up or otherwise flagged that "Hey, I'm still looking". Can we....do something about that? [more inside]
posted by EmpressCallipygos to Feature Requests at 5:42 PM PST - 14 comments

Just a heads up: we're testing out a new ad provider for logged-out, mobile site readers in Ask Metafilter threads. [more inside]
posted by cortex to MetaFilter-Related at 12:08 PM PST - 49 comments

Twice in the past month I've sought information on the wider web only to find that the answer was here all along. Turns out that noise in my head is my tensor tympani muscles flexing and that someone else had a question about that line from L&O:SVU a decade ago (they really did need a warrant to arrest someone in his own home). So: what cool things have you left MeFi to find, only to find them back here on MeFi?
posted by davidjmcgee to MetaFilter-Related at 10:45 AM PST - 22 comments

The xkcd author mentions an old AskMe in this week's What If?
posted by Johnny Wallflower to MetaFilter-Related at 10:31 PM PST - 58 comments

Are any of you still using Ello? If not, where've you all gone? Where do I go to find Mefites away from MeFi?
posted by Omnomnom to MetaFilter-Related at 1:41 PM PST - 101 comments

It's mid-March, the teams were just announced, let's do another MeFi March Madness Bracket. [more inside]
posted by box to MetaFilter-Related at 7:17 AM PST - 85 comments

Does anyone remember where this is? Some younger writer went to interview Patchett, it was delightful, I think they visited the bookshop. Was it here I found the link?
posted by mythical anthropomorphic amphibian to MetaFilter-Related at 1:31 AM PST - 4 comments

On Fanfare Talk, some mefites have expressed interest in discussing comic books on Fanfare; the necessary metadata could come from comixology or comicbookdb. What do other folks think about this idea? And are there other serialized media (ideally with metadata sources) that might be good to add?
posted by Going To Maine to Feature Requests at 7:50 PM PST - 35 comments

The League Office has moved from Chicago to San Jose, celebrate perpetual baseball weather in Metafiler's 2015 Tenth Annual Mazda Butterball Fantasy Baseball League. [more inside]
posted by cgk to MetaFilter-Related at 3:17 PM PST - 12 comments

I wanted to ask MeFites and the mods if there is any interest in having some sort of length limit for MetaFilter posts. [more inside]
posted by Anonymous to Feature Requests at 10:02 AM PST - 68 comments

I would like to arrange a meetup in the memory of Terry Pratchett. It was great going through his obit thread the other day. Terry's books influenced me a lot and helped me think about so many things in so many new ways. And I think, it would be a good idea to get together to give Terry a hearty, joyous send off. We could all come togather, assume names from list of characters from his writings, may be even dress like some of them and discuss, drink and celebrate life, his and our own. [more inside]
posted by TheLittlePrince to MetaFilter-Related at 9:26 AM PST - 11 comments

I'd like to propose a negative- free month. As in BEST of the web. As we transition from Matt to Josh, I think it would be nice to re-visit metafilter and get back to it's core business. Best of the web. Let me repeat that. Best of the web. If it's fighty, don't post it. If it's political, don't post it. Well, go ahead, but it's not part of April Showers. You know what I mean. Can we spend April ignoring the Worst of the web? Is it possible? Are you folks willing to just find stuff that brings a smile to people's faces? It's a challenge. I'd like to keep metafilter somewhat happy. And give the mods a month of fun. [more inside]
posted by valkane to MetaFilter-Related at 8:07 AM PST - 379 comments

Metafilter as a general policy does not consider offsite behavior from the moderator perspective unless it is something ridiculously egregious. If you want to talk trash on a user here over on Reddit, more power to you. I think that's kind of jerky if you make a habit out of it, but whatever. People need an outlet. This is not in general a bad policy at all. I like that I can be more free wheeling with my commentary elsewhere without it potentially souring my relationship with this community. So in general, there is a firewall between offsite and onsite behavior and the potential for mod involvement. We've had debates about to what degree that should be the case in the past, but I think the consensus has been pretty clear that this is the right way to go so I don't really want to re-fight that battle. [more inside]
posted by Drinky Die to Etiquette/Policy at 3:42 PM PST - 152 comments [closed]

I'm looking for an essay that was referenced here which proposed a scheme for multi-step quality control in science research and publishing. [more inside]
posted by jebs to MetaFilter-Related at 7:44 AM PST - 4 comments

Given this FPP about reddit's racism, and with the notion presented in that thread here, I'd like to float the idea of a blanket ban on links to reddit on the Blue. [more inside]
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering to Etiquette/Policy at 12:17 PM PST - 313 comments

It is my pleasure to welcome a new member into the Mefi family: Twain Device and his wife Allison welcomed their first child, Soren Tesla, to the world this morning. [more inside]
posted by WidgetAlley to MetaFilter-Related at 9:18 AM PST - 50 comments

How to Leave Your Internet Job. Advice for @mathowie on his new adventure by Jessamyn.
posted by zarq to MetaFilter-Related at 9:20 AM PST - 105 comments

It would be great to have disclosure widgets on the Recent Activity page, allowing users to collapse and expand the display of each post shown. [more inside]
posted by alms to Feature Requests at 7:58 AM PST - 14 comments

I sort of forgot to read MetaTalk over the course of the past year or so, and I was shocked to hear of Mathowie's recent retirement. It got me thinking, what other major Metafilter news did I miss out on?
posted by Triumphant Muzak to MetaFilter-Related at 11:30 PM PST - 66 comments

AskMe often receives questions of the "Can I Eat This?" variety. It would be nice if, when these were marked resolved, the OP was able to indicate whether they had, after all, eaten it, and if so, record what happened (presumably they didn't die, or they wouldn't be around to mark it resolved). My preference would be a little button and a field, with some way of tabulating the results, but it could be just a suggestion included in the "resolve" letter. [more inside]
posted by ubiquity to Feature Requests at 7:47 AM PST - 48 comments

We have a one-stop button for posting MeFi Projects to Metafilter. Could we also get a one-stop button for posting MeFi Music to Metafilter?
posted by Going To Maine to Feature Requests at 10:29 AM PST - 24 comments

So, mathowie, you are still with us for one last night, as a so-called moderator. Interesting. Beguiling, even. Show us then: what are the uncouthnesses, insubordinations and downright fripperies up with which you will not put, while you are still in power?
posted by MiguelCardoso to Feature Requests at 1:57 PM PST - 634 comments

Episode 102 was recorded yesterday and completed moments before we made my retirement post live so things are a little weird and scattered since I didn't know how people would take it yet. It runs about 90min long and covers the month of February on the site. [more inside]
posted by mathowie to MeFi Podcast at 4:43 PM PST - 64 comments

After 16 years of doing a bit of everything under the sun here, I’m stepping away from the day to day of running MetaFilter and moving into the background. Never fear, I’m leaving it in the best of hands and things are looking good for the future. [more inside]
posted by mathowie to MetaFilter-Related at 1:03 PM PST - 960 comments

Well, perhaps not *that* tiny -- if one goes to the main Tags page, one finds a spiffy tag cloud of most-often-used tags. What I would love to see is the ability to enter a tag to search by -- say a text field with submit button. [more inside]
posted by Celsius1414 to Feature Requests at 2:23 PM PST - 5 comments

Is there a way to see the tags on a post when using the mobile platform? If not, can this be added? Thanks awesome people!
posted by bq to Feature Requests at 9:20 AM PST - 42 comments