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Checking in a decade later.
posted by bendy on Sep 20 at 8:05 PM - 73 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 on Sep 23 at 6:23 PM - 11 comments

Today is my platinum anniversary on MeFi!
posted by signal on Sep 19 at 1:47 PM - 35 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."
posted by taz on Sep 18 at 12:49 AM - 65 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.
posted by loup on Sep 16 at 2:10 PM - 8 comments

This Tumblr post inspires this Metatalktails starter: “What’s the weirdest question someone’s ever asked you?”
posted by Mitheral on Sep 12 at 6:55 PM - 130 comments

Happy weekend, MetaFilter! This week, I'm curious to know what were your best and worst pandemic purchases?
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Aug 27 at 5:35 PM - 107 comments

I've looked extensively and cannot find a metafilter thread about the announcement of the Nintendo Switch OLED model.
posted by Faintdreams on Sep 14 at 9:14 AM - 7 comments

bendy has asked "It's an old thread but could we update "the least plausible story about yourself" as a Metatalktail Hour?" Sounds good to us! Tell us your strange true tales, mefites!
posted by taz on Aug 16 at 2:43 AM - 90 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.
posted by theora55 on Sep 3 at 3:21 PM - 33 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 on Sep 10 at 8:06 PM - 41 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?
posted by kathrynm on Sep 6 at 7:10 PM - 15 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.
posted by cortex on Sep 3 at 3:24 PM - 35 comments

A reasonable suggestion has been advanced, by MeFite pelvicsorcery, for another MetaTalk where one can decompress, vent, yell, scream and utter other statements of displeasure in response to climate change, the pandemic, politics, and anything and everything else of a frustrating, grating or infuriating nature. This is in the nature of previous threads such as here, here and here. Please proceed with unrestrained abandon within the box provided below. Thank you.
posted by Wordshore on Aug 11 at 2:46 AM - 134 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.
posted by cortex on Sep 2 at 1:52 PM - 5 comments

Would it be possible to expand the edit window? Perhaps leave off the timer entirely?
posted by geoff. on Aug 28 at 12:38 PM - 41 comments

This is a place for Gulf-area Mefites or any who are/will be affected by Hurricane Ida to check in. I know we have a lot of NOLA people, for instance. Stay safe y’all!
posted by Night_owl on Aug 27 at 11:58 AM - 30 comments

How'd you do? A continuation of this Meta.
posted by The corpse in the library on Aug 30 at 3:04 PM - 8 comments

I skipped last year because uh 2020, but am happy to commish if other people are interested. I've done it through Yahoo before, which seems like a mostly OK free platform. Probably draft first week of September? Interested?
posted by klangklangston on Aug 8 at 5:23 PM - 17 comments

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.
posted by loup on Aug 30 at 12:50 PM - 2 comments