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Happy weekend, MetaFilter! This week, I'd love it if you'd share with me a link or two to some of your favorite visual art. Famous, obscure, amateur -- just something you love to look at, and why you love it.
posted by Eyebrows McGee on May 7 at 6:56 PM - 49 comments

Occasionally in a thread someone posts something offensive, derailing, or monstrously long. It would be helpful if there was button next to the comment which one could click to hide said comment and said hiding would be remembered in Recent Activity and across devices. In place of the comment would be a single line of text that says "hidden comment", with the hide/unhide button next to it. This would, in theory, make it easier to skip derails, obnoxious, and/or long comments. The ridiculously long comments are particularly problematic in Recent Activity, where they repeatedly appear for a while. What say you?
posted by Brandon Blatcher on May 9 at 9:33 AM - 9 comments

I just started a new profile, blueberry monster, mostly because this name gets misgendered too often. I'm wondering who else would like the chance to point out what your gender is (because it gets mistaken from your username). I'd also like to hear from anyone else who changed to a new account for gender reasons.
posted by Margalo Epps on May 1 at 2:18 PM - 66 comments

Hello Metafilter! Here’s another update on the state of the site.
posted by loup on May 10 at 1:27 PM - 4 comments

I love Metafilter, especially the threads where we can come together as a community and share information, learn together, and come up with new ideas. But there’s been a really frustrating trend in some recent threads.
posted by leslietron on May 9 at 11:13 AM - 17 comments

Pretty self-explanatory. I'm asking solely out of curiosity.
posted by BadgerDoctor on Apr 28 at 11:20 AM - 50 comments

Could we get a <spoiler> tag?
posted by metabaroque on May 9 at 9:33 AM - 14 comments

Two silly asks of anyone making a post that turn a few recent MeTas on their heads:
1. When linking to paywalled content, please link first to the original content, and make your secondary link to the archived content. While paywalls are frustrating or impossible obstacles for some folks, they do in fact make sure that authors and publishers get paid. Further, official sites are often more navigable and readable than archived HTML scrapes. I’m not saying you shouldn’t provide a free copy, just asking that you prioritize the one that gets the author some compensation.
2. archive.org is a not-for-profit with known ownership. archive.is / archive.today is entirely opaque. Who runs archive.is? How? Why? (It first got famous -in the US- as far as I know, as a way for conservatives to deny advertisers clicks, and then Gamergate and anti-Gamergate made it really blow up.) The Internet Archive has a one-click archiver available at web.archive.org/save. Please consider using it instead.
posted by Going To Maine on Apr 28 at 2:28 PM - 32 comments

It's Springtime in Vermont which means the little peepers are out and about making their frolicking noises; it's always one of the first signs of things improving and beautifying, weatherwise. What are the sounds like near you? Loud sounds, quiet sounds, fun sounds, musical sounds, new sounds or old sounds. Tell us what you've been hearing around you.
posted by jessamyn on Apr 25 at 11:28 AM - 61 comments

I'll be straight with you: this is an episode, of a podcast, and it's me and Jessamyn, and we talk about MetaFilter and stuff adjacent to MetaFilter. There's no sugar-coating it: this is 90 minutes of MeFi-adjacent chatter.
posted by cortex on Apr 29 at 8:49 PM - 11 comments

MeFite effugas, aka Dan Kaminsky, the sweetest InfoSec guy you could ever know, has died this week. Dan was incredibly giving of his time and knowledge, to MeFi and to the world, and was always around being helpful and making complicated topics easier to understand. He talked about MeFi at DEFCON! He liked us and we (mostly) liked him and I am sorry he is gone.
posted by jessamyn on Apr 26 at 3:43 PM - 96 comments

Happy early weekend, MetaFilter! This week, valkane wants to know: "What movie (or top 5) do you watch over and over? Everyone has favorite movies; but which ones are your comfort food? What 5 movies have you re-watched the most?"
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Apr 15 at 7:54 PM - 194 comments

Hello Metafilter! Here’s another update on the state of the site and the things the team has been working on. As in the previous thread, comments will be turned on and I will be the only mod monitoring this thread so please be patient if it takes some time for me to reply.
posted by loup on Apr 26 at 11:41 AM - 14 comments

Every few days, I look over at the US politics sidebar on the front page, and see ""Let me tell you this right now, Donald J. Trump ain't going anywhere." On one hand, I feel a certain amount of glee looking at that headline and thinking "well, that was WRONG" - on the other hand, I think "I could have gone all day without even thinking about him if I hadn't looked over there."
posted by jordemort on Apr 25 at 9:59 AM - 8 comments

Hello Metafilter! Welcome to another update on the state of the site and the things we are working on. I’ve asked the team to allow me to take ownership of the site updates from now on so that we can streamline the process. Comments will be turned on this time as an attempt to have better ways to track feedback from the community.
posted by loup on Apr 12 at 1:03 PM - 25 comments

Six years ago a post was made here asking that people stop using "Grauniad" when referring to the UK newspaper The Guardian.
posted by I shot a fox in Skyrim and it made me sad on Apr 9 at 3:19 PM - 240 comments

Hello, there's a thread somewhere in the Ask section (possibly the blue) that entails methods for finding old friends.
posted by firstdaffodils on Apr 22 at 9:03 AM - 1 comments

We're introducing a new visual styling for moderator comments today! Instead of the older [small text and brackets style], mod comments will now feature a contrasting border, full-sized text, and for text browsers and screenreaders an explicit "Mod note:" text prefix to compensate for the lack of graphical cues.
posted by cortex on Apr 14 at 12:05 PM - 48 comments

Google Assistant screen reader skips to the About Metafilter section at the bottom of a thread, after reading the text of the original post.
posted by asok on Apr 18 at 12:10 AM - 11 comments

I just happened to come across my old flickr account, and it had some pictures I'd taken over a decade back, when dad was still alive and mom was ...not as... senior-ish, as she is now. They both looked really happy together, at the time. I don't think I may have seen my father ever smile, a bit, or mom being as accepting as she was of her husband.
posted by hadjiboy on Apr 8 at 6:12 PM - 29 comments