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Hello Metafilter! We are back to regular site updates this week. Please find more details on the state of the site below. Reminder: I will be the only mod monitoring this thread so please be patient as I reply to your feedback and questions. If you have any questions or feedback not related to this particular update, please Contact Us instead. If you want to discuss a particular subject not covered here with the community, you’re welcome to open a separate MetaTalk thread for it. [more inside]
posted by loup to MetaFilter-Related at 3:34 PM PST - 299 comments

Fall / Winter is coming ... or maybe Spring / Summer, or the wet season, or the dry season, or school is starting or ending, it's getting warmer or cooler, and some vegetables are growing sparser, while other are ramping up. (When is ramp season, anyway?) So, tell us — what are you doing to prepare for whichever seasonal change is looming on your horizon? Is it fun? Or is it more like chores you have to get through? Are you excited for the change, or not so much? Do you get to switch over to your favorite outfits, or do you have to bid your more beloved attire adieu for now? [more inside]
posted by taz to MetaFilter-Related at 10:28 AM PST - 71 comments

To be clear, I don't plan on eviscerating anyone, but I do wonder if there's an existing "if you don't have anything good to say..." status quo. I've never been active in either, and don't have a feel for it. Personally I *hate* having my work presented in an insincere critical environment, and prefer to both give and receive "something good/something bad" style comments. I'm particularly concerned about MeFi Music, because 1) I've experienced sensitivity re: my own music 2) It's music! It's arbitrary! ...but you hold back development by having people blow smoke up your soundhole.
posted by Jack Karaoke to Etiquette/Policy at 6:23 PM PST - 17 comments

Checking in a decade later. [more inside]
posted by bendy to MetaFilter-Related at 8:05 PM PST - 82 comments

Today is my platinum anniversary on MeFi! [more inside]
posted by signal to MetaFilter-Related at 1:47 PM PST - 37 comments

Hello, fellow travelers, for this weekend's chat, crank up your Melanie, and let's talk wheels. Marie Mon Dieu asks "I would like to know the first time you ever rode a bike, or didn't ride a bike, or why. Or any bike stories that you'd like to share." [more inside]
posted by taz to MetaFilter-Related at 12:49 AM PST - 67 comments

Hello Metafilter! Apologies for the delay with this site update. I just got my second COVID-19 vaccine on Monday and I've been dealing with minor symptoms. We'll go back to regular Monday site updates next time. Please find more details on the state of the site below. Reminder: I will be the only mod monitoring this thread so please be patient as I reply to your feedback and questions. If you have any questions or feedback not related to this particular update, please Contact Us instead. If you want to discuss a particular subject not covered here with the community, you’re welcome to open a separate MetaTalk thread for it. [more inside]
posted by loup to MetaFilter-Related at 2:10 PM PST - 8 comments

I've looked extensively and cannot find a metafilter thread about the announcement of the Nintendo Switch OLED model. [more inside]
posted by Faintdreams to MetaFilter-Related at 9:14 AM PST - 7 comments

This Tumblr post inspires this Metatalktails starter: “What’s the weirdest question someone’s ever asked you?” [more inside]
posted by Mitheral to MetaFilter-Related at 6:55 PM PST - 133 comments

I don't have anything really insightful to say here, other than I am reeling from the time passed, from the resources wasted, from the lives lost. A New Yorker, who was downtown that day, who says that she wants to send hugs to everybody on this awful anniversary.
posted by computech_apolloniajames to MetaFilter-Related at 8:06 PM PST - 42 comments

Since we've gone all the way from SF to Tokyo, it's time to set a new goal. This thread is a place to brainstorm where we would like to go to next. Start at Tokyo and go from there? Go around the equator? Pick two new places? [more inside]
posted by kathrynm to MetaFilter-Related at 7:10 PM PST - 16 comments

Fundraising updates now that August is over: we're up about $1100/mo in new recurring monthly subscription income from where we started at the start of the month. We've also received a few thousand dollars in additional one-time donations from site members and readers. And, as an extremely generous cherry on top, we also recieved a $15,000 donation from long-time nerd and friend of the site Jeff Atwood. [more inside]
posted by cortex to Uptime at 3:24 PM PST - 35 comments

MeFites are one of the most consistently interesting groups in which I am allowed to hang out. Some MeFites write or have written books. Hook us up, wouldja? And, in general, I like to check out profiles and am always happy to find links to blogs, updated or not, music, articles, stories, whatever stuff ends up there. Please consider populating your profile. p.s. There's no fact-checking. [more inside]
posted by theora55 to Etiquette/Policy at 3:21 PM PST - 33 comments

Jessamyn and I managed to stumble our way into and through a podcast despite both having the needle pegged hard to E this afternoon, and here is recorded evidence of that fact, at about 75 minutes. [more inside]
posted by cortex to MeFi Podcast at 1:52 PM PST - 5 comments