MetaTalk

Running windows 10 and Firefox. The past few days, Metafilter seems to be having trouble finishing loading when I "Open in new tab" on a link. And when it does stop, instead of the typical favicon, I'm getting a blue or gray "hourglass" favicon. Anyone else seeing this?
posted by Windopaene at 12:26 PM - 30 comments

I've noticed that MetaFilter pages are coming up slower than usual for me, here on the east coast of the US. It's regularly taking between 2 and 18 seconds for content to show. This is isn't the case for my connection on other web sites. So, I ran some page load measuring tools that try to get a sense for how things load from various places in the world. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt at 11:06 AM - 15 comments

Why all the bee chat all over the site this week? I appreciate it, but I'd like to both appreciate and understand it. [more inside]
posted by kensington314 at 9:56 AM - 49 comments

Is anyone else having problems creating TV posts in Fanfare in Android Chrome? [more inside]
posted by fiercekitten at 5:01 AM - 2 comments

The discussion in this Meta about reader-friendly Mefi pages had a side discussion about reader view and how it's not very consistent across sites. I suspect that Matter (an iOS read-it-later app) uses reader view and I've noticed a discrepancy: posts from Mefi Blue are saved with both the post and the comments, but posts from AskMefi only have the original question, no comments. I haven't tried it on other subsites yet, nor do I know how this works with other read-it-later apps, so if others can chime it that'd be great!
posted by creatrixtiara at 12:36 AM - 8 comments

I have a friend who teaches autistic children. I want to send her Zumbador's post on autism that can easily read. On a phone. Which is not the case when it comes up with yellow text on a dark blue background to an outsider. This raises all sorts of questions for me. Let me list them [more within] in an off the top of my head order. [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 3:02 AM - 94 comments

Heads up: Sending MefiMail might silently break. When it doesn’t work, the message is not sent, and it doesn’t show up in your Sent Mail folder. [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac at 12:51 AM - 17 comments

It will often happen that a post will say "N comments (X new)" for me, when "X" is wildly inaccurate. Sometimes there are 0 new when it tells me there are some, and other times there are some new but not as many as it says. Is there something within my control to improve how well this works? [more inside]
posted by primethyme at 11:05 PM - 32 comments

Sometime in about the last week, the ability to copy text, say, from a comment or a post, has been lost on my iPad. If I try to copy text, I am confronted with only the choice to copy an image—an image that appears to be the blue background. I am no longer able to select or copy text in either Safari or Chrome on iOS (iPad in my case). I have tested several other sites and this frustrating deficit seems to be limited to metafilter. Have somehow, after years of participation with iPad somehow lost my way?
posted by bz at 6:08 PM - 22 comments

Pony request: better handling of HTML lists (ordered and unordered) in posts and comments. [more inside]
posted by escape from the potato planet at 10:59 AM - 2 comments