MetaTalk

How about highlighting the threads on the front page that the logged-in user has posted in? Going to your user info to see all your recent comments is a bit cumbersome. Something like making the "n new" in "N comments (n new)" a different color and pointing that link to your most recent comment in the thread.
posted by azazello to Feature Requests at 2:03 PM - 10 comments

So I'm wanting to add the potential for positive voting on threads, so people can vote [this is good] and then others can view the best stuff from the past few days. I'm having some issues with the display side of things though [more inside]
posted by mathowie (staff) to Feature Requests at 1:41 PM - 156 comments

"And so the 'high-signal territory' posse was born." I'd like to apologize in advance for being annoying, but I think that it's important (in a relative sense, at least) to do this.
posted by oissubke to Etiquette/Policy at 8:08 AM - 94 comments

Lawmeme, Yale University's excellent law blog, has published quite an amazing analysis of the Laurie Garrett discussion.
The author, James Grimmelmann (our own grimmelm), not only critiques Garrett but also has some very interesting things to say about the MeFi response. This is not your "typical" various insundry blog entry, it is more akin to the basis of a thesis. I realize this was posted in the thread, but it is definitely worth added exposure.
posted by anathema to MetaFilter-Related at 9:10 AM - 48 comments

The success of the Political Compass thread a few posts back got me to thinking about an interesting notion: Might it be time for a MeFi census?
posted by oissubke to MetaFilter-Related at 7:17 AM - 101 comments

I cant post urls in my fpps apart from the title.
posted by sgt.serenity to Bugs at 5:27 AM - 9 comments

The Washington Post quotes MeFi on the Google-Pyra deal.
posted by liam to MetaFilter-Related at 8:07 AM - 17 comments

Hey all. Yesterday the user aeschenkarnos provided a cool link for a political compass. I thought it might be somewhat worthwhile, and possibly entertaining, if just this one time, for the sake of posterity, we could all put our political predispositions out in the open. We might even be able to better answer that age-old FAQ question: Are we guilty of lefty groupthink?
posted by dgaicun to MetaFilter-Related at 6:53 AM - 350 comments

I changed the fancy dhtml link titles to be purely optional. By default, they won't be seen on the site, and you have to say "yes" to them on the customize page to enable them.
posted by mathowie (staff) to Feature Requests at 1:29 PM - 26 comments

sorry to ask what I'm sure is a stupid question. Where do I find my member number? I'm trying to sign up for the CD swap and that field is required. I've looked high and low, and I'm stumped.
posted by pejamo to MetaFilter-Related at 9:07 AM - 6 comments

I've found a bug in the new javascript captions that come up on links with title attributes - in Phoenix/Mozilla, if I ctrl-click on a link to open it in a new tab, the caption stays up, and the only way to make it go away is to reload the page.
posted by chrisege to Bugs at 6:26 AM - 12 comments

Once could be considered funny, but what's the point behind this?
posted by fvw to Etiquette/Policy at 12:48 PM - 38 comments

Hi, just got a CF error on
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/22486#408066

Al
posted by ajbattrick to Bugs at 7:53 AM - 2 comments

Slithy_Tove makes a remarkable point. I know one can easily lie about it. But how about an age entry on our profile page?
posted by crasspastor to Feature Requests at 11:16 PM - 43 comments

The code for Freefilter, an open source clone of Metafilter is now available. Mefi's structure as a posting and discussion board is unlike most other's available. It's fluid and user friendly and it was only a matter of time before someone coded their own version especially considering the success of Whedonesque and Sportsfilter. This isn't the first time an attempt has been made of course. This version isn't 'out of the box' yet though -- as the readme.txt says, you'll need:"A Web server, preferably Loonix, MySQL, an, er, recentish version, Perl, DBI and CGI modules for Perl, these should come as standard with most Perl installations, a sense of humor to read my source code..."
posted by feelinglistless to MetaFilter-Related at 4:33 PM - 32 comments

Oh holy fucking oolong what the hell are those purple cupid things infesting my screen?! I think you forgot to add the pixies=yes background music to complete it. I'm putting this in 'bugs' because it bugs me. *cries* oh I'm so lonely.
posted by Stan Chin to Bugs at 11:24 AM - 52 comments

What's wrong with worldnetdaily? I posted a link to an article that really frightened me, and it was taken down. The message I received was: "worldnetdaily? Come on." Granted, from the little I read afterwards from the site, they are a little right of Attila the Hun, but probably no further right than yellowtimes or commondreams is left...

What gives? I'd like to know more about what worldnetdaily isn't taken seriously...
posted by drstrangelove to Etiquette/Policy at 11:20 AM - 7 comments

y2karl, meet the anchor tag. Say hello!
posted by Pretty_Generic to Etiquette/Policy at 11:16 AM - 31 comments

I wish to take my turn beating the dead horse [more inside].
posted by Yelling At Nothing to Etiquette/Policy at 9:37 PM - 57 comments

Since yesterday, I've been unable to use the shortcut to post links in threads. The shortcut window pops up as usual, I paste in the URL, and hit OK. Then the window closes, but without having inserted any code into the text. (I'm using the same ol' IE5 as usual.)
posted by scody to Bugs at 3:01 PM - 9 comments